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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)

Non-Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones EPA finds possible risks in Teflon, will study further		13 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Non-Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones EPA finds possible risks in Teflon, will study further The U.S. EPA yesterday released the preliminary results of its inquiry into the health effects of a chemical used in making Teflon, saying it found "a potential risk of developmental and other adverse effects" but also that there are "significant uncertainties" in its assessment. The agency has calle ...
Topics: business, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill Nikki Tinsley, the inspector general of the U.S. EPA, is ruffling feathers in Washington, D.C., these days. A registered independent appointed by President Clinton in 1999, she has developed a reputation for integrity, professionalism, and steely resolve. She views her job not simply as monitoring for fraud and waste, but ensuring that the EPA is doing its ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Secret Agency Man With Leavitt on the way out, who'll be next to head up the EPA?	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Dec 2004	Muckraker
Leavitt, left, accepts Bush's nomination to head HHS and leave EPA behind. Photo: WhiteHouse.gov. There were plenty of "Leavitt or leave it" jokes when former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R) took the helm at the U.S. EPA just over a year ago. Many insiders didn't expect him to stay long at the agency, figuring he would get promoted after doing the dirty work on the heels o ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes 'Clear Skies'		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes "Clear Skies" The White House has told the U.S. EPA to hold off on issuing the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which would curtail emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, in deference to a renewed push in Congress to pass the Bush administration's long-stalled "Clear Skies" legislation. Delaying the rule will increase ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Another Refiner Mess EPA brags about oil-refinery cleanups that haven't happened		13 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Another Refiner Mess EPA brags about oil-refinery cleanups that haven't happened "Settlements under EPA's Petroleum Refinery Initiative have reduced emissions of air pollutants by 200,000 tons per year at 48 refineries in 24 states," said top U.S. EPA enforcement official Tom Skinner in October. Turns out that was a lie. Oh, wait, did we say "lie"? Actually, says Skinner, it was a "poor word ...
Topics: air pollution, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS		13 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS President Bush announced today that he intends to move U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt into a new position as secretary of health and human services, ending Leavitt's tenure of just over a year at the agency. Leavitt, a rising star in the Republican Party and a fierce Bush loyalist, managed to raise the ire of environmentalists numerous times during his short stint at EPA as ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

You Put Your Right Foot in ... Shuffling is afoot in Bush administration's environment-related slots	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Nov 2004	Muckraker
There's so much talk of hirings, firings, retirings, and resignations at environment-related agencies in the Bush administration that it feels almost as though a whole new regime were coming in, when in fact we're likely to get four more years of the same policy aims. Ann Veneman (left) and Spencer Abraham. Photo: USDA. Departing at the cabinet level are Ann V ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Rat Pack EPA laxity leaves kids at risk from rat poison, enviros charge		16 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Rat Pack EPA laxity leaves kids at risk from rat poison, enviros charge The U.S. EPA seems more concerned with protecting rat-poison manufacturers than protecting kids, two enviro groups are charging. Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council and West Harlem Environmental Action filed suit against the EPA, criticizing the agency for harming children by revoking safety measures on rat poisons in 2001, at ...
Topics: business, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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