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AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide If you've been avoiding Brussels sprouts because of pesticide contamination -- as opposed to the grossness -- you're in luck: by next year, the U.S. EPA plans to phase out organophosphate azinphos-methyl (AZM) on the odiferous buds, as well as on nuts and nursery stocks. By 2010, AZM would be banned completely, affecting growers of apples, blueberries, cherries ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (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)

Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel New federal clean-air rules came into effect yesterday, requiring sulfur content to be cut by 97 percent in at least four-fifths of U.S.-refined diesel fuel. The new "ultra-low sulfur diesel" will hit service stations in the fall. The U.S. EPA estimates it will raise the cost of diesel fuel by about five cents a gallon; other estimates rang ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

They Should Volunteer to Be Penalized for That Bush's voluntary emissions-reduction programs not amounting to much		26 May 2006	Daily Grist
They Should Volunteer to Be Penalized for That Bush's voluntary emissions-reduction programs not amounting to much Are you sitting down? We've got some earth-shattering news: the Bush administration's voluntary programs to reduce industrial greenhouse-gas emissions aren't working. A report issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office stated that many industry participants in the U.S. EPA' ...
Topics: business, climate, Department of Energy, news, US EPA (all these topics)

A Twist of Organophosphate EPA scientists say they're being pressured on pesticide studies		25 May 2006	Daily Grist
A Twist of Organophosphate EPA scientists say they're being pressured on pesticide studies U.S. EPA managers and pesticide-industry officials have been pressuring agency scientists to skip steps in pesticide testing and allow continued use of some potentially harmful pesticides, says a letter sent to EPA chief Stephen Johnson by union leaders representing agency employees. The "integrity of the science upon which agency decisions ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill The House of Representatives was on an eco-roll yesterday as it fixed up an Interior Department spending bill to send to the Senate. Over the objections of top Republicans, lawmakers approved 252-165 a measure that would put oil and gas ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, politics, toxics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Not Wade Away U.S. streams in sad shape, says EPA analysis		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Not Wade Away U.S. streams in sad shape, says EPA analysis It's Monday and most of the streams in the U.S. are in bad shape. Can we go back to bed? A U.S. EPA study finds that 42 percent of "wadeable" U.S. streams are in poor condition, 25 percent are fair, and only 28 percent are good (OK, math geeks, 5 percent were not analyzed because of sampling problems). Streams running between the Appa ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2 Ten states have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. EPA over what has become a central point of contention between the feds and ... people who have to live on the planet for the next 50 years: whether or not the agency has the authority to regulate planet-warming carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Plaintiffs -- who've been joined by two cities and three gree ...
Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide After contriving to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide for use in strawberry fields forever, the U.S. EPA has withdrawn the plan in the face of fierce opposition from California officials, labor unions, and enviros. The approval of methyl iodide was to be the culmination of a nearly 15-year search for a sub ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (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)

TRI This on for Sighs EPA unveils mixed news on U.S. toxic emissions		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
TRI This on for Sighs EPA unveils mixed news on U.S. toxic emissions The U.S. EPA issued its annual Toxics Release Inventory this week, and it's a pessimist's dream. U.S. waterways absorbed 241 million pounds of chemicals in 2004, up 10 percent from the year before. Dioxin, mercury, and PCB releases were down, but (a fact the press failed to note) the 58 percent dioxin decline in 2004 was relative to a huge spike in 2003; compared to ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lung Out to Dry Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems		13 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Lung Out to Dry Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems With all due respect to the Free-Floating Anxiety and War Fever afflicting many in the post-9/11 world (prescription: less talk radio), at least 15,000 people have actual medical complaints related to the attack. Many victims afflicted with "World Trade Center cough" assumed it would pass once the dust settled; instead, problems have ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules? Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution		04 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules? Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution The U.S. EPA is considering a regulatory change that could massively increase air pollution -- which is really its job, when you think about it. Currently, oil refineries, chemical factories, and other operations that emit more than 25 tons of toxics into the air a year must apply best available pollution-control technologies; emissions then typ ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science		30 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science Confused over who they're supposed to be killing -- their enemies? themselves? -- the Defense Department in recent years has often defied U.S. EPA recommendations for environmental cleanups and toxicity standards. Case in point: A 2001 EPA draft report estimated that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) -- a widespread water pollutant fou ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Humpty Dance Bush attempts to weaken Clean Air Act are illegal, court rules		20 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
The Humpty Dance Bush attempts to weaken Clean Air Act are illegal, court rules Americans who breathe scored a big victory on Friday, when a federal appeals court declared illegal the Bush administration's long-running effort to undermine pollution rules for coal-fired power plants and other pollution-belching industrial facilities. Judge Judith Rogers, writing for the court, castigated the U.S. EPA for trying to red ...
Topics: air pollution, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Critical Mass Massachusetts proposes tough standard for perchlorate in drinking water		16 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Critical Mass Massachusetts proposes tough standard for perchlorate in drinking water In a not-so-subtle jab at the Bush administration, Massachusetts has proposed a strict drinking-water standard for the toxic chemical perchlorate, which can disrupt metabolism, growth, and development, particularly in children. There is currently no federal limit on perchlorate in drinking water, though the U.S. EPA ...
Topics: Massachusetts, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030		02 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030 The Bush administration delighted enviros yesterday (yes, we just wrote that) by unveiling long-awaited proposals to cut toxic tailpipe emissions. Of course, it took a lawsuit to get the plan released, but why look a gift regulation in the mouth? According to the U.S. EPA, the proposed rules would cut benzene e ...
Topics: news, placemaking, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Midas Crutch EPA may replace ozone-depleting chemical with cancer-causing chemical		22 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
The Midas Crutch EPA may replace ozone-depleting chemical with cancer-causing chemical Here's a hypothetical: Say you were a nation that signed a pact to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. Say you therefore needed an alternative to methyl bromide, an ozone-attacking pesticide used on strawberries and other crops. Would you phase in a highly toxic fumigant that probably causes cancer? Sigh. Of course you would. The U.S. ...
Topics: California, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Money for Nothin' Bush's 2007 budget includes Arctic Refuge drilling, cuts EPA funding		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Money for Nothin' Bush's 2007 budget includes Arctic Refuge drilling, cuts EPA funding Unsurprisingly, greens will find little to love in President Bush's proposed $2.77 trillion budget for fiscal year 2007. It calls for oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, estimating $7 billion in revenue by 2008 from leasing drilling rights -- nearly triple the $2.4 billion forecast in la ...
Topics: climate, energy, mining and drilling, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Conned Air EPA chief twisted particulate pollution advice, say scientists		06 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Conned Air EPA chief twisted particulate pollution advice, say scientists U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson "twisted" and "misrepresented" recommendations on regulating soot and dust pollution from the agency's own air-quality experts, according to, um, the agency's own air-quality experts. In an unprecedented move, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee is urging Johnson to change course on the pollution ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Performance Anxiety EPA program offers carrots to polluters and takes away sticks, enviros say	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Feb 2006	Muckraker
A U.S. EPA program that's supposed to give recognition and flexibility to companies that are good environmental citizens may in fact be giving a free pass to some firms that are heavy polluters and even lawbreakers, according to a coalition of environmentalists. Come and get it! Photo: Clipart. The agency's voluntary Performance Track program -- whose participants i ...
Topics: business, Muckraker, US EPA (all these topics)

Fault Whitman Bush appointee misled public on toxic air after 9/11 attack, judge says		03 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Fault Whitman Bush appointee misled public on toxic air after 9/11 attack, judge says Federal judge Deborah Batts said yesterday that former U.S. EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman "increased, and may have in fact created, the danger" to people living and working near the World Trade Center towers in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks -- behavior Batts called "conscience-shocking." Ouch. Most sign ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines		31 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines A Bush administration deal announced yesterday will allow thousands of factory farms to evade pollution fines. The U.S. EPA has signed consent agreements with nearly 2,700 companies in the egg, poultry, dairy, and hog industries, exempting them from paying major daily fines for toxic air emissions. The companies will ante up a flat $2,500 to pa ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Dropping Acid EPA asks companies to phase out toxic chemical PFOA		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dropping Acid EPA asks companies to phase out toxic chemical PFOA The U.S. EPA, having recently discovered that P stands for "protection," has asked DuPont and seven other chemical companies to phase out use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon cookware, stain-repellant fabrics, microwave popcorn bags, and other scarily ubiquitous household goods. If the eight companies and their ove ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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