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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)

Hide and sneak White House disses Supreme Court, kills $2 trillion savings	Joseph Romm	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. The Wall Street Journal published new material ($ub. req'd) on the White House's emasculation of last year's Supreme Court global warming decision: The court told the EPA that the Clean Air Act requires it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The White House seeks to nullify that decision by stuffing the EPA document down a memory hole and substituting antithetical language. The WSJ has se ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics, US EPA, White House (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)

White-Out House White House tries to keep EPA from showing how greenhouse gases could be regulated		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 30 Jun 2008 The White House is trying to block the U.S. EPA from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, reports The Wall Street Journal. The draft document, a formal response to a Supreme Court decision that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can thus be regulated under the Clean Air Act, must be OK'd by the White Hou ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

To Clean Up or Not to Clean Up ... We're Still on Defense U.S. Defense Department fighting EPA orders to clean up Superfund sites		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 30 Jun 2008 Defying environmental law, the U.S. Defense Department has resisted repeated orders lately from the U.S. EPA to clean up some of the nation's most contaminated places. The DoD/EPA standoff has turned into a bureaucratic pissing match wherein the EPA has asserted its authority to order and oversee cleanup of ultra-polluted Superfund si ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Jon Stewart on EPA and email	David Roberts	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Nobody but Stewart could do this justice:
Topics: brilliance, dumbassery, funnies, George Bush, politics, US EPA, video (all these topics)

Dally Affirmation Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:08 AM on 27 Jun 2008 A federal appeals court has decided not to force the Bush administration to speed up its decision on whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health or welfare. The administration's decision on CO2 is a necessary step in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollu ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (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)

The Department of Defense (of itself) DOD slows condemning research into its polluting behavior	Liz Borkowski	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, a Government Accountability Office report explained how the White House Office of Management and Budget was holding up the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System assessments. According to GAO, the OMB started requiring an 'interagency review' process allowing agencies that might be affected by the IRIS assessments to provide comments on the documents. As a result, some of these outside agencies can effectively block completion of IRIS assessments, whi ...
Topics: US EPA, health, Department of Defense, climate, politics, toxics (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, US EPA (all these topics)

Candy-shaped rat poison on its way out EPA gives manufacturers three years to adjust to new regulations designed to protect children	Fawn Pattison	30 May 2008	Gristmill
The U.S. EPA announced today that it would be tightening up the safety requirements on ten nasty rodenticides that are blamed for poisoning around 10,000 children -- mostly black and Latino inner-city kids -- every year. Those ten chemicals will no longer be available in the form of little pellets that look like candy, and that small children are so prone to stick in their mouths. The new rules will require non-agricultural users of rat poison to use it only inside tam ...
Topics: green living, health, parenting, regulation, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Stonewall Johnson	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Bush Era:
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, politics, 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, US EPA (all these topics)

Waxman is going to punch somebody	David Roberts	21 May 2008	Gristmill
Wow, it looks like House oversight committee chair Henry Waxman is getting a little sick of EPA head Stephen Johnson: More here.
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Tailpipe tampering Waxman discloses evidence that White House influenced EPA California waiver	Frank O'Donnell	19 May 2008	Gristmill
It's been a matter of extreme controversy since last December, when EPA -- confronted with an impending front-page Washington Post exclusive -- suddenly announced it was denying California's request to enforce its greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles. After months of dogged investigation, California Rep. Henry Waxman disclosed today that he had evidence that the White House tampered with the decision. The issue is certain to come up tomorrow as EPA Admist ...
Topics: California, climate, jackassery, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

For Specious Skies EPA plans to loosen air-quality rules near national parks		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:45 AM on 16 May 2008 Photo: Wolfgang Staudt Call us crazy, but rewriting the Clean Air Act to ease the way for new coal plants near national parks seems to fly in the face of that whole "clean air" thing. But sure enough, the U.S. EPA plans to make a change allowing the government to calculate the average annual emissions of power plants near parks and wilderness areas, instead of tracking (and po ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, jackassery, national parks, news, politics, regulation, 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)

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
The fading hopes for the Lieberman-Warner climate bill have all but ended (see E&E News, 'Sponsors lower expectations for Lieberman-Warner bill,' $ub. req'd, reprinted below). Serious climate legislation had been in critical condition for some months (see 'Boucher lets conservatives block House climate bill' and 'Don't hold your breath on Lieberman-Warner passing in 2008.'). Doctors and family members finally pulled the plug this week, and the patient appeared to ...
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
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- The fact that our country has a National Environmental Policy Act means we should have a national environmental policy, and any national environmental policy is bound to take into consideration global warming, right? Wrong on two counts. The U.S. is sorely lacking an updated environmental policy. It's been over a decade and counting. With the E ...
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
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)

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