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Know When to Hold Him More drama around Stephen Johnson's EPA confirmation		14 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Know When to Hold Him More drama around Stephen Johnson's EPA confirmation The political jousting around the confirmation of Stephen Johnson to head the U.S. EPA continues, as yet another senator has threatened to gum up the process. Just last week, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Bill Nelson (Fla.) held the confirmation hostage, forcing Johnson to cancel a controversial research program on household pesticides and child ...
Topics: news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

World War CO2 Feds, states, and interest groups face off in court over carbon dioxide		11 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
World War CO2 Feds, states, and interest groups face off in court over carbon dioxide An epic environmental case got a day in court on Friday, as a coalition of 12 states, several cities, and 13 nonprofit organizations squared off against the federal government, 11 states, and 19 industry groups before a panel of three judges in a federal appeals court. At issue is the U.S. EPA's authority to regulate carbon ...
Topics: air pollution, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson Pulls Out EPA scraps controversial pesticide study		11 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Johnson Pulls Out EPA scraps controversial pesticide study Just two days after Senate Democrats announced they would block Stephen Johnson's confirmation as U.S. EPA administrator until the contentious Children's Health Environmental Exposure Research Study was cancelled, Johnson bowed to pressure, reversed the agency's previous wait-and-see position, and pulled the plug. The creepily acronymed CHEERS would have given a group of low-i ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson Blocking Democratic Senators stall confirmation of new EPA head		07 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Johnson Blocking Democratic Senators stall confirmation of new EPA head When President Bush chose 24-year U.S. EPA veteran, scientist, and all-around mild-mannered dude Stephen Johnson to head the agency, observers expected no controversy. But Johnson's ongoing confirmation hearings are proving them wrong. It seems those pesky Democrats can always find something to complain about -- like, um, poisoning child ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ballast Off Judge rules EPA must regulate ballast water, control invasive species		04 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ballast Off Judge rules EPA must regulate ballast water, control invasive species In a court decision called "a slam dunk for healthy oceans" by the Ocean Conservancy's Sarah Newkirk, a federal judge ruled last week that the U.S. EPA must regulate ballast water carried by ships entering U.S. waters. The ruling reverses the agency's exemption of ballast water under the Clean Water Act and labels the water -- ...
Topics: news, oceans, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Easy Encomium, Easy Go EPA earns enviro praise by updating cancer guidelines to protect kids		04 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Easy Encomium, Easy Go EPA earns enviro praise by updating cancer guidelines to protect kids Here's a rarity: Enviros actually praised a Bush administration move last week. The U.S. EPA earned the plaudits by announcing that it will update its nearly 20-year-old chemical-assessment approach for evaluating potential human carcinogens, to account for differences between adults and children and between lab animals and humans. The new gui ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Cap and Tirade States file suit against EPA over mercury rule		30 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Cap and Tirade States file suit against EPA over mercury rule A coalition of nine states has sued the U.S. EPA, claiming the mercury emissions rule it issued earlier this month will do less to protect public health than the Clean Air Act requires. The suit charges the EPA with breaking the law by exempting power-plant mercury emissions from the Clean Air Act's requirement that "maximum available control technology ...
Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Benefit to Be Tied EPA ignores own research in creating mercury rule		22 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Benefit to Be Tied EPA ignores own research in creating mercury rule The U.S. EPA may have grossly underestimated the health benefits of mercury-emission reductions, according to a study commissioned by, uh, the EPA. When the Bush administration's new mercury rule was released last week, administration officials claimed that it would yield only $50 million a year in health benefits, while costing industry $750 million a year to implem ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Cap and Betrayed Bush administration releases weak mercury rules		15 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Cap and Betrayed Bush administration releases weak mercury rules The U.S. EPA is releasing its plan to reduce mercury emissions today, and even jaded environmentalists are appalled. "This is ... the most dangerous, dishonest, and illegal air-pollution rule I have ever seen come out of the agency," said ex-EPA official and Natural Resources Defense Council attorney John Walke. If the agency had classified mercury as a "h ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states With the Clear Skies bill dead in committee, the Bush administration is going ahead with its plan to implement provisions of the bill as regulation. Yesterday saw the first step, as the U.S. EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which will substantially curtail emissions of soot-causing and smog-forming emissions, primarily generated by ...
Topics: air pollution, East Coast, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Blending the Rules EPA plan would spew under-treated sewage into U.S. waterways	Susan Boni	10 Mar 2005	Main Dish
Like clean water? Then you'll love Rep. Bart Stupak. Swimming in sewage just isn't this fun. For the last year, Stupak has been fighting a U.S. EPA proposal that would allow inadequately treated sewage to be "blended" with fully treated waste during rain and snow events. The messy mix would then be released into the nation's rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. If blending is permitt ...
Topics: politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Half a Bridge Over Troubled Water EPA proposes stronger protections on lead in drinking water		08 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Half a Bridge Over Troubled Water EPA proposes stronger protections on lead in drinking water The U.S. EPA has proposed strengthening protections against lead in drinking water for the first time since 1991. The move comes in response to the recent brouhaha in the Washington, D.C., area, where residents were not informed of widespread lead contamination until years after it was discovered. The changes would require ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Cap Dancing EPA skewed analysis in favor of cap-and-trade mercury regs, GAO says		08 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Cap Dancing EPA skewed analysis in favor of cap-and-trade mercury regs, GAO says The U.S. EPA misrepresented the analysis of its plan to regulate mercury emissions from U.S. power plants, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reported yesterday. The EPA's proposal, released last year, explored two approaches to limiting emissions of the neurotoxin. The one largely favored by environmentalists would mandate emissions caps ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Let Us Now Praise Innocuous Men Bush EPA nominee Steve Johnson garners praise and sympathy	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Mar 2005	Muckraker
Stephen Johnson. Photo: Energy Star. The next chief of the Bush EPA wasn't expected to have more than a dewdrop's chance in hell of widespread acceptance in the disgruntled environmental community. So it came as a surprise on Friday when the president tapped respected scientist and 24-year EPA veteran Stephen Johnson to captain the agency, and an array of green leaders ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Bush Sticks Johnson in the EPA President Bush announces nominee to head EPA		04 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bush Sticks Johnson in the EPA President Bush announces nominee to head EPA Today President Bush announced his new pick to lead the U.S. EPA: Steve Johnson, who's been the agency's temporary head since Mike Leavitt left six weeks ago to head the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed by the Senate, Johnson, a 24-year EPA veteran, will be the first professional scientist to hold the position. The choice of Johnson, a ...
Topics: news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

AAA for Effort Legislation would force EPA to get realistic about fuel-efficiency stats		03 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
AAA for Effort Legislation would force EPA to get realistic about fuel-efficiency stats A bill debuting in Congress today would require the U.S. EPA to revamp its gas-mileage tests to more accurately reflect real-world driving conditions. Currently the EPA determines mileage ratings for vehicles by using 30-year-old tests that allow vehicle engines to get warm, never push the speed above 60 mph, never run the air conditioning, a ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air		24 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air A market-based program used by five Western states to control haze in national parks and wilderness areas was rejected by a federal appeals court Friday. Brought to court in a challenge by a coal and utilities industry group, the states' efforts to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution and improve air quality and visibility in the parks w ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Heavy Metal Madness Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Pombo says: Eat up! House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) -- longtime bete noire of the environmental community -- cooked up what appears to be some fishy science in a report released last week titled "Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury" [PDF]. The report -- written not by scientists but rather by aides to Pombo and a ...
Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine		08 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine Mining company W. R. Grace & Co. was formally charged yesterday with knowingly exposing mine employees and residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos and concealing evidence about its potentially dangerous health effects. The indictment marks the closing chapter of what U.S. Attorney Bill Me ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry		04 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry Brace yourself -- your entire worldview is about to be shaken. Turns out, in coming up with its new rules on power-plant mercury emissions, the U.S. EPA violated agency protocol and ignored scientific evidence in order to stay in line with a predetermined goal that favors industry. ...
Topics: business, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's new book It's My Party Too is out now, and she is having her moment of media ubiquity, bashing what she calls the increasing extremism of the Republican Party. In interviews and appearances on such commie-pinko outlets as NPR's "Fresh Air& ...
Topics: green living, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Big To-Doo-Doo EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Jan 2005	Muckraker
On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. Factory farms may be getting off easy, but not so the c ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Big Ag, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Party Girl Christie Whitman's forthcoming book assails GOP's rightward lurch	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Jan 2005	Muckraker
When U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman left the agency in 2003, she said she wanted to "spend more time with her family." If you believed that, Bernard Kerik's got a tax-free nanny he'd like to sell you. Those skeptical of Whitman's resignation excuse may soon have their suspicions confirmed. It seems she quit because she was hoodwinked and hamstrung by her supe ...
Topics: books, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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