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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Health Bent EPA chemical-review process sucks, says GAO		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:32 PM on 29 Apr 2008 U.S. EPA reviews of the health risks posed by ubiquitous chemicals are hampered by extensive nonscientist involvement, says a report from the Government Accountability Office. The EPA review process, rejiggered by the White House in 2004, is cloaked in secrecy, causes years of delay, and has lost credibility, the GAO says. The Defense Department, Energy Department, and NASA, all of which have a vested inter ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, health, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

They'll Never Learn EPA closure of research libraries was a stupid idea, says GAO		14 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:29 PM on 14 Mar 2008 The U.S. EPA decision to deal with a 2006 funding cut by closing several research libraries was not very well thought out, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. To take just one example: The EPA promised to compensate for the closures by making information available on the internet, but due to copyright issues, only some 10 percent of the library system's doc ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, news, scientific research, US EPA (all these topics)

Letting Goad White House pressured EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements, GAO says		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 7:15 AM on 13 Dec 2007 Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, has concluded that the Bush White House pressured the U.S. EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements for businesses. The Toxics Release Inventory was born in 1986 and serves as a community right-to-know tool, requiring that companies report annually on their toxic pollution. However, the EPA, apparently under p ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

A Star Is Scorned GAO doubts efficacy of Energy Star label		08 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:42 PM on 08 Oct 2007 You know the U.S. government's Energy Star label, meant to direct consumers to energy-efficient electronics and appliances? The Government Accountability Office does not think it means what you think it means. In a new report, the GAO notes that, for example, TVs are tested in standby mode, because the latest available standards for testing tellies' energy efficiency in actually-running mode were written ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, Government Accountability Office, news (all these topics)

Vermiculite Reading EPA refuses to warn homeowners about asbestos exposure from insulation		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:19 AM on 05 Oct 2007 If you happen to be reading through the U.S. EPA website -- which you no doubt do every day -- you might come across a warning that some 35 million homes nationwide contain insulation processed with asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from infamous Libby, Mont. If you ask the agency about it, they'd be happy to send you a pamphlet -- but they're sure not going to come right ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, green living, health, insanity, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

All In a Day's Work EPA sued over ship emissions, smacked over 9/11 cleanup		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:08 AM on 06 Sep 2007 The Environmental "Protection" Agency faced two major slams yesterday, from east and west. In Washington, D.C., the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office issued a report scolding EPA for its post-9/11 cleanup efforts, saying the agency's approach to toxic indoor contamination in buildings near the site is misdirected and ignores New Yorkers' health concerns. The report & ...
Topics: air pollution, Government Accountability Office, Hillary Clinton, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Manhattan Transference Feds Have Not Fully Studied Twin Tower Air Pollution or Treated Victims		08 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Manhattan Transference Feds Have Not Fully Studied Twin Tower Air Pollution or Treated Victims As the third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, the federal government has still not comprehensively studied the health effects of the dust and debris that filled the air around Ground Zero in the days following the attacks, and there is still no federal treatment program for those suffering f ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Keep on Truckin' Taxpayers could get stuck with tab for new diesel rules	Amanda Griscom	13 Apr 2004	Muckraker
When the Bush administration wants to gin up some environmental cred, it cites efforts underway to slash diesel emissions by requiring trucking companies to switch to cleaner engines. But the untold story is that it may be the taxpayers -- not the polluters -- who end up footing much of the bill. Big Mac attack. Photo: U.S. House. The trucking industry has long been a leading opponent of federa ...
Topics: air pollution, Government Accountability Office, Muckraker, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Markey-Mark and the Nukey Bunch GAO Finds Shortage of Money for Closing Atomic Reactors		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Markey-Mark and the Nukey Bunch GAO Finds Shortage of Money for Closing Atomic Reactors Nearly half of the nuclear-reactor owners in the U.S. are not setting aside sufficient money to decommission the plants when they are shuttered, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. As a result, 42 plants might not have enough money to be safely shut down. "While happ ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

It Was Fund While It Lasted Superfund Money Will Be Gone in One Month, GAO Says		03 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
It Was Fund While It Lasted Superfund Money Will Be Gone in One Month, GAO Says The countdown has begun: In one month, the Superfund will run out of money, according to a new study by the General Accounting Office. Money in the fund comes from a now-expired tax on industry and is used to clean up "orphan sites," toxic waste areas around the country where the polluter is unknown, no lo ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Air Apparent Bush Admin. Lacked Data to Support Relaxing Emissions Rules, GAO Found		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Air Apparent Bush Admin. Lacked Data to Support Relaxing Emissions Rules, GAO Found And that's not all the GAO's been up to. In a report released yesterday, the agency determined that the Bush administration had no real evidence to back up its claims that loosening air pollution rules for industrial plants would lower emissions and reduce health risks. The U.S. EPA, in making its case for revising ...
Topics: air pollution, Government Accountability Office, politics (all these topics)

Do Tell		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Do Tell The General Accounting Office, the investigative branch of the U.S. Congress, will meet with regulators from the Security and Exchange Commission next week to discuss whether companies sufficiently disclose environmental risks to shareholders. The meeting was prompted by concerns from Sens. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) about corporate liability for envir ...
Topics: business, climate, Government Accountability Office (all these topics)

The No-good, the Bad, and the Ugly		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The No-good, the Bad, and the Ugly During the 2000 budget year, the federal government awarded more than $855 million worth of contracts to companies that had violated at least one federal law in the previous three years, the General Accounting Office reported yesterday. In all, 39 companies winning contracts of $100,000 or more were guilty of violating federal environmental, labor ...
Topics: business, Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

G.A.Oh, No!		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
G.A.Oh, No! In a victory for the Bush administration and a significant setback for congressional oversight of White House goings-on, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the investigative arm of Congress does not have legal standing to sue Vice President Dick Cheney for refusing to turn over documents related to the development of the national energy policy. The ruling goes beyond the Cheney matter to sta ...
Topics: energy, Government Accountability Office, politics (all these topics)

Hi, I'm Not in Delaware		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Hi, I'm Not in Delaware In the latest blow to its image, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a planned $311 million deepening of the Delaware River after learning that the General Accounting Office was preparing to question the project's economic justification. Sources said GAO investigators believed the Corps had overstated the potential economic benefits of the p ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Government Accountability Office, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca		30 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca All the effort by the feds to determine whether Nevada's Yucca Mountain would be a suitable place to permanently store the country's nuclear waste can be summed up as "a failed scientific process," according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. The report, which has been obtained by several newspa ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Government Accountability Office, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid Two new U.S. government reports raise big concerns about a Bush administration plan to cut federal environmental enforcement staff by 8 percent and shift resources to the states. A report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general found that states are doing a poor job of monitoring and punishing water polluters. A report by the General Accou ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

I've Got a Secret and I'm Not Telling		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
I've Got a Secret and I'm Not Telling Vice President Dick Cheney has formally refused to turn over documents relating to the development of the Bush administration's energy plan to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The GAO may now take the White House to court over the issue. Democrats and enviros believe the energy plan was tailor-made for energy exe ...
Topics: energy, Government Accountability Office, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

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