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What We Talk About When We Talk About Runoff Appeals court rules EPA must protect waterways from construction pollution		19 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 6:06 AM on 19 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA is required by the Clean Water Act to protect the nation's waterways and drinking water from construction-industry pollution, and the agency must develop regulations to address construction-site runoff by December 2009, a federal appeals court ruled [PDF] Thursday. Sediment from construction sites, usually washed into rivers and ot ...
Topics: litigation, news, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Life's a Beach and Then It's Closed EPA to update health-hazard reporting standards for U.S. beaches		11 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 AM on 11 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA has agreed to update its 22-year-old criteria for reporting beach-related health hazards to the public thanks to a new settlement with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Right now, the EPA's criteria for assessing ocean-water and beach health are based on the likelihood of beachgoers contracting gastrointestinal illnesses, but apparently that's j ...
Topics: litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Grass Is Half Empty EPA and Florida sucking at Everglades cleanup, says judge		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:57 PM on 29 Jul 2008 Florida and the U.S. EPA have been skewered by a federal judge for their Everglades cleanup efforts (or rather, lack thereof). In 2003, Florida pushed back a deadline for reducing phosphorus pollution in the River of Grass from 2006 to 2016. By doing so, the state "violated its fundamental commitment and promise to protect the Everglades," U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ru ...
Topics: Florida, habitat protection, litigation, national parks, news, regulation, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Phosphorus For Us Sick of algae-polluted water, Florida groups sue EPA		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:55 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A flock of Florida green groups has sued the U.S. EPA, seeking state and national water-pollution standards for fertilizer runoff from factory farms. Nitrogen and phosphorus flow from agricultural operations into many Florida waterways (among other places), triggering algae blooms which suck oxygen from the water and kill off marine life. Exposure to the algae, which contaminates many drinkin ...
Topics: agriculture, Florida, litigation, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Water We Supposed to Do? Lag in water-pollution enforcement traced to muddled court decision		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:58 PM on 08 Jul 2008 The U.S. EPA has neglected to pursue hundreds of potential violations of the Clean Water Act because of regulatory uncertainty, according to an internal memo. The lack of clarity stems from a 2006 Supreme Court ruling that left plenty up in the air about the types of waterways and wetlands that fall under EPA jurisdiction. The confusion has had "a significant impact ...
Topics: news, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (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)

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)

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)

I Sink, Therefore I Am On tap water	Umbra Fisk	12 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I was wondering where the H2O from the tap comes from, and where it goes to. Beth Swarthmore, Pa. Dearest Beth, It comes from and goes back to the water cycle, which I've been reading a lot about in Richard Scarry's classic work What Do People Do All Day? The book answers the "where it comes from" question, but Scarry doesn't have so much to say about sewage. Lowly Worm does not get to travel through the toilet. Let ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Massey Business Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 17 Jan 2008 Massey Energy Co., the nation's fourth-largest coal producer, has agreed to a $30 million settlement with the U.S. EPA over allegations of Clean Water Act violations. Massey was accused of polluting streams and waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with the detritus of mountaintop-removal mining on at least 4,500 occasions between 2000 and 2006. The company must pay $20 million in civil pena ...
Topics: coal, energy, litigation, mining, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Clean water jacked While industrial agriculture fouls the Mississippi, the EPA cowers in the corner	Tom Philpott	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Industrial agriculture thrives on its ability to skulk away from -- or, to use economist's argot, "externalize" -- the costs of its considerable ecological messes. Often, it does so with the tacit approval of the federal government, in direct violation of federal law. In Iowa, for example, the state's 2,100 CAFOs (confined-animal feedlot operations) regularly violate the Clean Water Act by failing to adequately dispose of the 50 million tons of waste they p ...
Topics: agriculture, legislation, Mississippi River, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

They're Busy Not Enforcing the Clean Air Act EPA not enforcing Clean Water Act, says report		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 12 Oct 2007 The U.S. EPA is not so much enforcing the Clean Water Act, says a new report from green group U.S. PIRG. According to EPA data, 57 percent of the country's industrial plants and municipal wastewater facilities dumped more than the allowable level of pollutants and sewage into waterways at least once in 2005, the most recent year that records are available. The average vio ...
Topics: Indiana, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Through Hell and High Yogurt Yogurt-maker Dannon agrees to pay fine, treat wastewater in EPA settlement		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:21 AM on 10 Oct 2007 International yogurt giant Dannon has agreed to pay a fine of $71,350 and install a multimillion-dollar automated wastewater control system as part of a settlement with the U.S. EPA. There have been some 10 illegal discharges over the past few years at the company's 3-million-cup-a-day yogurt plant in Ohio -- and it's not just spilled yogurt. In February 2005, ...
Topics: business, news, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Spaghetti Midwestern Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges		01 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Spaghetti Midwestern Citizens, politicians, EPA face off over BP refinery discharges Good old-fashioned fury continues to build over Indiana's decision to grant oil giant BP permission to increase discharges of ammonia and sludge into Lake Michigan. A group of eight shoreline mayors has formed a task force to fight the plan. Tens of thousands of residents have signed petiti ...
Topics: Big Oil, Chicago, grassroots activism, insanity, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Clean Water Is Highly Overrated Bush administration limits reach of Clean Water Act		07 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Clean Water Is Highly Overrated Bush administration limits reach of Clean Water Act If you assumed the federal Clean Water Act should apply to all bodies of water in the U.S., well, you have made an ass out of u and me. The Bush administration unveiled guidelines this week that say only bodies of water large enough to float a commercial boat in and their adjacent wetlands will get automatic protection un ...
Topics: news, politics, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Take Care, TCE Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant		28 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Take Care, TCE Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant The solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) -- the most common industrial pollutant in U.S. drinking water -- poses a high risk of kidney cancer and other diseases, the National Research Council reported yesterday. The council said the U.S. EPA should get moving on a new risk assessment, which is expected to lead to new standards for allowabl ...
Topics: news, 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)

Nice Package UPS will test new hydraulic hybrid trucks		27 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Nice Package UPS will test new hydraulic hybrid trucks If you thought the muscled deliveryfolk in tight brown shorts were hot, wait 'til you get a load of their trucks. UPS drivers in Detroit will be testing new hybrid delivery trucks developed by the U.S. EPA, which the agency claims will boost fuel efficiency up to 70 percent in stop-and-go traffic. The "hydraulic hybrid" trucks -- also intriguing to ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Touched by an Angelo Bush admin weakens water-pollution rules after oil exec intervenes		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Touched by an Angelo Bush admin weakens water-pollution rules after oil exec intervenes When Clinton administration regulators announced they were working on a rule that would require special EPA permits for oil and gas drilling sites, to prevent water pollution, the oil and gas industry lumbered into action, lobbying furiously to thwart the rule. Then the Bush administration came into office, and their job got eas ...
Topics: news, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Man Hatin' Transfer EPA declines to regulate polluted water transfers		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Man Hatin' Transfer EPA declines to regulate polluted water transfers Corporate farms and other businesses would not need to obtain a Clean Water Act permit in many water-transfer cases, under a rule proposed by the U.S. EPA yesterday. The rule would apply regardless of how polluted the water is -- but hey, corporate farming always produces clean water, right? Coincidentally, only not, the EPA proposal comes during ...
Topics: Florida, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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