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Hutto you know? Cheney aide poised to head key division of Department of Energy	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post reports today that F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is likely to be appointed as a key official at the Energy Department. Hutto has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration. A promotion to assistant secretary for policy and international affairs would put him in charge of the department's policies on climate change. The DOE website says the assistant secretary serves as ' ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Dick Cheney, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson stands up for himself EPA administrator says he's not pulling out	Kate Sheppard	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On a press call today, a reporter asked EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson if he plans to resign from his post, as four Democratic senators and some enviros have called on him to do. 'If you want to talk about that you're more than happy to talk to ... our press officer. But no, I'm not,' responded Johnson. Then the press call abruptly ended.
Topics: Muckraker, news, politics, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

Clear and present endangerment Republicans block subpoena of EPA climate document, while Boxer releases choice excerpts	Kate Sheppard	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been foiled in her attempt to obtain and make public a U.S. EPA document on the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases, thanks to Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee that she chairs. The document in question is an endangerment finding that the White House refused to accept when the EPA emailed it to the Office of Management and Budget in December 2007. EPA staffers have said that their findings -- that ...
Topics: climate, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Office of Management and Censorship Committee hears testimony from whistleblower on EPA dealings	Kate Sheppard	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Jason Burnett, the former associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency who resigned last month over the Bush administration's unwillingness to address greenhouse-gas emissions, provided more details to a Senate panel Tuesday about how top White House officials worked to quash new regulations on greenhouse gases. Appearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Burnett shared with senators some of the behind-the-scenes ne ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US Senate (all these topics)

The hole truth EPA proposes new regulations for injecting carbon into the ground	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The EPA released a proposal for a new rule on Tuesday that lays some of the groundwork needed to get carbon capture and storage technology up and running. If formally adopted, the new rule would create a new class of injection wells under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control program. There are currently five different types of wells; this would add a sixth for those created to store carbon emissions from coal-fired power pl ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Come health or high water EPA scientists spell out dangers of climate change while EPA chief delays action	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
While EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and the rest of the Bush administration have decided to run out the clock on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions, EPA scientists have released their own document [PDF] detailing the health risks posed by a warming planet, including wildfires, smog, disease, and an increased number of heat-related deaths. The 149-page endangerment analysis outlines the risks that global warming poses to human health, as well as air quality, ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Countdown to Crawford Bush administration decides to run out the clock on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration made clear today that it doesn't intend to do anything about climate change in the final six months in office, announcing that instead of responding to the Supreme Court's mandate last year that the EPA determine the dangers posed to humankind by greenhouse-gas emissions they would simply request further public comment. The White House and EPA released their much-anticipated Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking today, after weeks of dispute ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Cheney reaction Ex-EPA official details White House interference on climate action	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In a letter [PDF] made public today, former deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett indicates that both the Office of the Vice President and the Council on Environmental Quality have attempted to censor discussion of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. Burnett, who went public about the administration's obstruction after leaving the EPA in early June, detailed the interference in a letter to Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara B ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

A fuel's errand Republican House members ask EPA to scale back ethanol mandate	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
More than 50 Republican representatives sent a letter [PDF] to the Environmental Protection Agency last week urging the agency to lower the mandate for ethanol production in response to both the recent flooding in the Midwest and drought in the South. They argue that one-third of the country's corn crop will be used for ethanol to meet the Renewable Fuel Standard, and while the weather this year will cause a decrease in supply of corn, the RFS will increase demand ...
Topics: biofuels, Congress, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, severe weather, US EPA (all these topics)

Back draft The EPA documents the White House doesn't want you to see	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Brad Johnson over at Wonk Room acquired a copy of the EPA's recommendations on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions that the White House has been trying so hard to hide. The documents give you a good idea why: EPA officials concluded that the benefits of new, tougher standards 'far outweigh their costs.' In fact, if gas prices stay in the range of $3.50 a gallon, 'the net benefit to society could be in excess of $2 trillion' through 2040 if fuel efficiency standard ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Burnett at the stake Former EPA official talks about White House's unwillingness to regulate greenhouse gas emissions	Kate Sheppard	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As we've reported here over the past week, the White House is trying to block the Environmental Protection Agency from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases. Over the weekend, Grist talked to former associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Jason Burnett about the agency's findings and the White House's interference. Burnett, an economist by training, and the EPA's environmental ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Return to sender White House refuses to open email about regulating greenhouse gases	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The White House has refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, and has told EPA officials that the email they sent containing the document of their findings would not be opened, reports The New York Times. Apparently the email in question has been hanging in limbo since December 2007, according to EPA officials. The document details the EPA's proposed response to the Supreme Cour ...
Topics: Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

House rules Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA's proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
We reported a few weeks ago that the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming had reached a deal with the White House to secure documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on its work in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the case Massachusetts v. EPA. We also reported that The Wall Street Journal had gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency resulting from the Massachuse ...
Topics: Congress, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

White House covers Johnson Bush invokes executive privilege to shield EPA administrator from subpoena	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was set to vote today to hold U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and Susan Dudley of the White House Office of Management and Budget in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to recent controversial decisions on smog and California's request for an emissions waiver. But it appears their friend in the White House swooped in this morning to block the committee's subpoenas for those docum ...
Topics: George Bush, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Tough draft Draft copy of EPA rulemaking on fuel efficiency suggests higher standards are possible	Kate Sheppard	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal teased that they'd gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency. According to the WSJ, EPA staffers found that cars and trucks could be even more fuel-efficient by 2020 than the 35 miles per gallon required by the latest update to CAFE standards. The draft notes that advanced technologies like plug-in hybrid vehicles could help raise fuel efficiency well beyond 35 mile ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Contempt at last? Johnson, Dudley may be held in contempt of Congress by week's end	Kate Sheppard	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and Susan Dudley of the White House Office of Management and Budget may be held in contempt of Congress by the end of this week for failing to turn over documents related to recent controversial decisions on smog and California's request for a waiver that would let the state set tougher auto-emissions standards than the federal government. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is slated to vote Friday on wheth ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, politics, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

No contempt for EPA's Johnson, yet Select Committee and White House reach deal on release of documents	Kate Sheppard	22 May 2008	Gristmill
It seems the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has reached some sort of agreement with the White House to obtain documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on their internal workings. The decision preempted the committee's plan to hold a vote today finding EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson in contempt. The Select Committee is after documents that detail the agency's process for denying California's request for a waiver in setti ...
Topics: California, Ed Markey, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

21 questions Whitehouse and Boxer want answers from EPA's Johnson on Gade ouster	Kate Sheppard	13 May 2008	Gristmill
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today, calling for information about the circumstances surrounding the ouster of Mary Gade, the administrator of the agency's Midwest regional office. Gade was allegedly fired after attempting to force Dow Chemical to clean up dioxin pollution around the company's Midland, Mich., plant. Whitehouse and Boxer had 21 questions for Johnson regarding Gade ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Missing Johnson EPW subcommittee seeks answers on politicization in EPA, gets few	Kate Sheppard	08 May 2008	Gristmill
The U.S. EPA is committed to transparency, representatives of the agency testified yesterday before a subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing was called to look into recent allegations of politicization and secrecy within the agency. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson -- the man everyone wants to hear from on the subject -- didn't accept the invitation to attend, so George Gray, EPA assistant administrator for research and devel ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Muckraker, news, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

'At the pleasure of the president' Who's looking into the circumstances of the Gade firing?	Kate Sheppard	02 May 2008	Gristmill
After yesterday's news about the ouster of Mary Gade from the head of the EPA's Midwest office, the next question is who, if anyone, is looking into whether her firing came at the behest of Dow Chemical and the White House. According to EPA spokesperson Jonathan Shradar, no internal investigation into the circumstances of Gade's dismissal is planned. 'This is a role that serves at the pleasure of the administration, and [EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson] makes the ...
Topics: jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

More on Gade ouster Bush supporter apparently fired for doing her job	Kate Sheppard	02 May 2008	Gristmill
An EPA controversy brewing in the Midwest calls to mind the U.S. attorneys scandal, as Brad Johnson noted yesterday. Top officials in the agency have forced Mary Gade, head of the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, to step down from her post or be fired by June 1. The ouster comes after Gade pressured Dow Chemical to clean up the dioxin-saturated soil and sediment extending 50 miles downstream from its Michigan headquarters. Gade is also the former director of the ...
Topics: Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Ag Reflex Factory farms let off the hook for water pollution, activists say	Amanda Griscom Little	30 Jun 2006	Muckraker
The Bush administration wants to let factory farms determine whether the animal excreta that oozes from their facilities into waterways should be regulated, environmentalists say -- and they argue that the plan, well, stinks. The cow factor. Photo: iStockphoto. Agriculture has long been a top source of water pollution in the U.S., but in the last two decades the scale of the problem h ...
Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Air Strike EPA plan would give political officials more say over air-quality standards	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Who should decide what level of air pollution is safe -- scientists or political appointees? Plume and doom. Photo: iStockphoto. A counterintuitive answer came from top officials at the U.S. EPA last week. Bill Wehrum and George Gray, EPA's highest-ranking air and science officials, respectively, issued recommendations that some enviros and agency staffers fear could curtai ...
Topics: air pollution, John Dingell, Muckraker, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Shuffling the Deck New nominees for top spots at EPA worry enviros	Amanda Griscom Little	29 Jul 2005	Muckraker
While the green community and the press fixate on the energy bill that's finally wending its way to President Bush's desk, a changing of the guard under way at the U.S. EPA is sliding by virtually unnoticed. Who are these three jokers? When Stephen Johnson assumed his post at the head of the agency in May, he vacated the No. 2 spot of deputy administrator, which the White House has finally got ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

So Three Judges Walk Into a Car ... Appeals court rules EPA doesn't have to regulate CO2 emissions from cars	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Jul 2005	Muckraker
It's a simple but powerful question: Does the U.S. EPA have the power -- and the obligation -- to regulate carbon dioxide as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act? Strangely, it still remains partially unanswered, even though it was a central issue in a landmark court case decided on Friday. Spew away, appeals court says. In a major legal victory fo ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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