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Hey, I'm a CO Too! EPA needs to pay attention to carbon monoxide, says judge		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:58 PM on 08 May 2008 Carbon dioxide gets all the press, but the U.S. EPA is way behind on its legal obligation to update the nation's carbon monoxide regulations -- and it needs to get crackin', a federal judge ruled this week. Federal law requires a reassessment of carbon-monoxide standards every five years, but the EPA last took a look at the standards in 1994. While carbon monoxide is not considered to b ...
Topics: air pollution, health, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Cause of death: apathy Lieberman-Warner moved from critical condition to the morgue	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A national environmental policy? New paper demands consideration of global warming in federal policy decisions	Joseph Romm	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Missing Johnson EPW subcommittee seeks answers on politicization in EPA, gets few	Kate Sheppard	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barbara Boxer, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Rocket Bottle EPA not super-interested in keeping rocket fuel out of drinking water		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:53 PM on 06 May 2008 There is a "distinct possibility" that the U.S. EPA will pass on restricting perchlorate in the nation's water supplies, an agency official said Tuesday. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel ingredient that has been found at some 400 places in 35 states, can muck up normal thyroid function. But Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA assistant administrator for water, told the Senate Environm ...
Topics: food, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (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

Topics: jackassery, 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

Topics: politics, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

If the Leaders Lead, the Lead Standards Will Follow U.S. EPA to tighten standard for airborne lead		02 May 2008	News
Posted at 6:24 AM on 02 May 2008 Compelled by court order to review its 30-year-old standards for airborne lead, the U.S. EPA proposed a new, tougher standard this week that would cut allowable lead levels by over 90 percent. True to form, though, the agency proposed a range of standards that exceeded the maximum limit of what its scientific advisers recommended as necessary to protect public heal ...
Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Mary, Mary, Too Contrary Bush admin ousts top EPA official over Dow Chemical pollution case		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:41 PM on 01 May 2008 The Bush administration forced out the U.S. EPA's top Midwest regulator on Thursday, after months of contention over a pollution case involving Dow Chemical, the Chicago Tribune reports. Mary Gade, who was appointed by President Bush in 2006, had been tussling with Dow over plans to get the company to clean up extensive dioxin pollution that it dumped into Michigan waterw ...
Topics: news, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Shades of U.S. attorney scandal in the EPA Top EPA official forced out by political appointees	Brad Johnson	01 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: jackassery, politics, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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)

Interference and Loathing in Washington, D.C. Over 800 EPA scientists report political interference in their work, survey says		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 6:35 AM on 24 Apr 2008 More than 800 U.S. EPA scientists reported some form of political interference in their work in the last five years, according to a survey of EPA staff by the Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS sent out some 5,500 questionnaires to EPA scientists and received some 1,580 responses; over half the respondents asserted they had experienced p ...
Topics: news, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A story in pictures	David Roberts	19 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, environmental justice, health, US EPA (all these topics)

The flaccid mind of Stephen Johnson National Journal on the EPA tailspin	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate science, dumbassery, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Time Flies When You're Procrastinating EPA just doesn't have time to make CO2 decision, says official		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:22 AM on 16 Apr 2008 Remember how the U.S. EPA was instructed by the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether carbon dioxide should be regulated as a pollutant? And how that was more than a year ago? A senior EPA official said in a speech this week that "given the time frame available to the agency, it's not realistic" to expect that the EPA will make that decision before the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Auto agitprop Carmakers take anti-Cali talking points to 'Blue Dog' House Democrats	David Roberts	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: California, cars, politics, shenanigans, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Big Lump gets thumped King Coal's year of rejection by banks, judges, and a lot of other folks	Ted Nace	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, legislation, politics, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson-Come-Lately EPA sued over its procrastination		02 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 02 Apr 2008 Seventeen states and 11 green groups have sued the U.S. EPA for not yet having made a decision about whether it will regulate greenhouse gases. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, exactly one year after the Supreme Court ruled that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson should make that decision. sources:� Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Boston Globe From the Archives Don't ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

FOE to Bush: Pull Johnson out	David Roberts	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Friends of the Earth, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Devel(opment) Is in the Details Bush admin finalizes development-friendly wetlands rules		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 6:21 AM on 01 Apr 2008 The Bush administration has finalized rules for wetlands development that encourage developers to restore or create new wetlands when old ones are destroyed, sometimes far from the original site. While it sounds innocent enough on its face, opponents of the controversial approach say that natural streams and wetlands are more complex than simply wet places, and they're d ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, news, United States, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Birds do it; bees do it NYT op-ed: pesticides wiping out songbirds	Tom Philpott	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, extinction, food, health, organic food, US EPA (all these topics)

If It's Broke, Fix It EPA announces new lead standards for renovation of older buildings		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:04 PM on 31 Mar 2008 Contractors will have to train workers to follow "lead-safe work practice standards" when renovating or repairing older dwellings that house children or pregnant women, according to new standards introduced Monday by the U.S. EPA. The new requirements are an attempt to keep lead out of the bloodstreams of babes, as structures built before 1978 are likely to contain ...
Topics: green building, green living, health, news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Snarkey Markey Seeing through the EPA's BS	Sir Oolius	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: climate, Congress, Ed Markey, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Climate stall Bush administration finally responds to Supreme Court case on global warming	Frank O'Donnell	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Congress, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Spring in a Step EPA will request public comment on GHG regulation this spring		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:06 PM on 27 Mar 2008 SCOTUS decreed that the U.S. EPA must decide whether the climate-change effects of carbon dioxide endanger public health, and, at long last, the agency is moving on that decision -- kinda. In a letter to U.S. lawmakers Thursday, chief Stephen Johnson wrote that the EPA is writing proposed rules for regulation of CO2 emissions "from stationary and mobile sources" and will som ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

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