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Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah!
Car mileage testing will catch up with reality, EPA declares |
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21 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah! Car mileage testing will catch up with reality, EPA declares After years of criticism from greens and independent testing groups, the U.S. EPA announced on Friday that its rules for testing automobile fuel economy will finally be updated and revised. New standards should be in place for testing 2008 model year cars. It's a move long opposed by the automobile industry, since the revisions could decrease ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Between Barack and a Hard Place
Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules |
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07 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Between Barack and a Hard Place Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules President Bush's latest U.S. EPA nominee has run into an obstacle no one anticipated: a Democrat with cojones. On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was placing a hold on the nomination of Susan Bodine to head the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response -- and furthermore, that h ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, Illinois, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Night of the Inexpensive Dead
EPA chief Johnson resurrects Bush's 'Clear Skies' plan |
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28 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Night of the Inexpensive Dead EPA chief Johnson resurrects Bush's "Clear Skies" plan The Bush administration's "Clear Skies" air-pollution plan, seven months after its seeming death in Congress, has clawed its way out of the ground and lumbered back to life, moaning and twitching, bits of rotted flesh dropping from its desiccated corpse. (Hey, it's almost Halloween -- sue us.) Speaking before the ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Taint Bernard
La. eco-group slams official silence on toxins in New Orleans suburbs |
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27 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Taint Bernard La. eco-group slams official silence on toxins in New Orleans suburbs The soil in two New Orleans suburbs may be highly contaminated with heavy metals and petroleum products, charge residents. They say local and federal officials aren't warning returning residents about toxic hazards or cleaning up the mess. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade paid a certified testing company to assess soil samples taken during Sept ... |
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| Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The Dark Side of the Source
EPA issues draft rules that would gut air-pollution standard |
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14 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Dark Side of the Source EPA issues draft rules that would gut air-pollution standard The U.S. EPA has issued draft regulations that would allow the nation's dirtiest power plants to emit more air pollution. The proposed regs -- anticipated and dreaded by clean-air advocates -- would supersede new-source review (NSR), the Clean Air Act regulation requiring plants to upgrade their anti-pollution technology when expanding or m ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain
Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected |
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13 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected Some of the floodwaters pumped out of New Orleans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- about 250 billion gallons all told, dumped mostly into Lake Pontchartrain -- may not have been as toxic as initially feared. Researchers at Louisiana State University took samples five to nine days after the deluge and found ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The Mold Song and Dance
EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess |
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07 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Mold Song and Dance EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess The U.S. EPA has the authority to assess and manage environmental disasters, but activists and even some EPA staffers allege that so far agency testing of water, air, and soil in the Gulf Coast has been insufficient, and its health warnings too weak, to adequately protect returning residents. EPA should be more actively preventing ... |
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| Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Wastes Great, Less Filing
EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial facilities |
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23 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Wastes Great, Less Filing EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial facilities Industrial plants would report their chemical releases every other year instead of annually under a policy change proposed by the U.S. EPA. The agency also indicated it wants to raise the threshold for reporting the release of certain chemicals from 500 to 5,000 pounds. Both are major changes to ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Off by a Mileage
EPA to revise tests of new cars' gas mileage |
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19 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Off by a Mileage EPA to revise tests of new cars' gas mileage The U.S. EPA has announced plans to overhaul its current method for estimating the fuel economy of new automobiles -- the miles-per-gallon numbers stuck on the windows of every new car. The method now in use has changed little since the mid-1970s, even though driving conditions have changed substantially -- including more traffic, higher highway speeds, and the prolife ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Flood Is Thicker Than Water
Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA |
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15 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA The post-Katrina mess of pollution along the Gulf Coast is "the largest national disaster that we at EPA or, we believe, that the nation has faced," U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said yesterday. Serious health problems threaten the region, he said, including floodwaters tainted with sewage-related bact ... |
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| Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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A Detox on Both Your Houses
EPA releasing new, stricter rules on human testing of pesticides |
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07 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| A Detox on Both Your Houses EPA releasing new, stricter rules on human testing of pesticides Researchers would be prohibited from intentionally exposing children and pregnant women to pesticides in order to study the chemicals' effects, under new regulations being proposed today by the U.S. EPA. The agency formulated the rules -- its first-ever on human testing of pesticides -- after news emerged several months ago about a ... |
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| Topics: news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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A Friendly Conservation
White House to greens: We should totally do this again some time |
Jon Christensen |
02 Sep 2005 |
Soapbox |
| Say anything. Uncle Sam wants you ... to cooperate on conservation. Not only that, he's willing to listen. At least that's what he says. Earlier this week, St. Louis hosted the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The invitation-only event was modeled after Teddy Roosevelt's 1908 Governors' Conference, which brought all the country's governors, Supreme Court j ... |
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| Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Freedom to Pollute Is on the March
New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more |
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31 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more The Bush administration may finally eviscerate the legal basis for many pesky air-pollution lawsuits against coal-fired power plants. A new proposal being drafted by the U.S. EPA would change the system for monitoring plants' emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide: after a plant modernized its equipment, ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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E-Raced
EPA says race, income shouldn't be environmental-justice factors |
Liza Featherstone |
01 Aug 2005 |
Main Dish |
| It may surprise some people to hear that the Bush administration's EPA just drafted a strategic plan on environmental justice. Insidiously, and perhaps less surprisingly, advocates say, the move threatens to redefine that term into irrelevance. The agency's new plan defines environmental justice as "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Gas-Muzzler
EPA holds back negative report on U.S. auto fuel efficiency |
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28 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Gas-Muzzler EPA holds back negative report on U.S. auto fuel efficiency According to a report not released Wednesday by the U.S. EPA, loopholes in U.S. fuel-economy standards let automakers produce cars and trucks much less fuel-efficient than models 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the same day the long-debated energy bill emerged from congressional negotiations, EPA opted to keep the report to itself for another week. An agen ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The Toxic Avoider
EPA failing to get health data on scads of potentially harmful chemicals |
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14 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Toxic Avoider EPA failing to get health data on scads of potentially harmful chemicals The U.S. EPA hasn't collected data on the potential risks of tens of thousands of toxic substances, putting the public at risk, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, which regulates industrial chemicals, the EPA can't force companies to provide health data unless there ... |
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| Topics: health, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Just Breathe
Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S. |
Kathryn Schulz |
17 Jun 2005 |
Counter Culture |
| 14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Buenos Vistas
New EPA effort to cut haze in national parks |
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17 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Buenos Vistas New EPA effort to cut haze in national parks The U.S. EPA this week released new regulations designed to clean up hazy air in 156 national parks and wilderness areas. The rules aim to eliminate 1 million tons of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions a year by 2014. States must identify the industrial sites smogging up places like Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where air pollution can ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, national parks, news, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Everything New Is Old Again
Wisconsin power-plant expansion could have long-term eco-consequences |
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31 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Everything New Is Old Again Wisconsin power-plant expansion could have long-term eco-consequences The fate of a Wisconsin coal-fired power plant could augur poorly for the environment, say its opponents. At issue is what does and doesn't count as a "new" power-generating facility: Under the Clean Water Act, new facilities are subject to strict regulations on cleaning technology; an addition to an existing ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, US EPA, Wisconsin (all these topics) |
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff
Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff |
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24 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff Catalyzed by legal action from enviro groups, the U.S. EPA has started cracking down on an oft-overlooked cause of befouled waterways: polluted runoff. On its journey through urban and suburban streets, rainwater picks up and carries motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, and other nasties, eventually dumping them in majo ... |
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| Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Highway Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Provision in highway bill would require gas-mileage reality check |
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24 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Highway Just Met a Girl Named Maria Provision in highway bill would require gas-mileage reality check The U.S. EPA would have to use more realistic conditions when testing new vehicle models for gas-mileage figures under an amendment offered by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), backed by green and consumer groups, and successfully attached to the Senate highway bill. Currently, the agency's methods include evaluating vehicles at an ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics) |
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That's Hot
States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the 'hot spots' they'll create |
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19 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the "hot spots" they'll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency's recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a "cap and trade" system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable threat to publi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Uncle Sam Wants You! ... To Clean Up After Him
Closed military bases frequently icky |
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12 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Uncle Sam Wants You! ... To Clean Up After Him Closed military bases frequently icky Irony alert: Hot on the heels of news that the Pentagon is appealing to Congress for exemptions from air and hazardous-waste laws comes word that closed military bases are ridden with, uh, dirty air and hazardous waste. Thirty-four military bases shut down since 1988 are on the U.S. EPA Superfund list of toxic sites, and the upcoming r ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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