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The Ghost of Mining Past Abandoned Mines Continue to Pollute the West		14 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Ghost of Mining Past Abandoned Mines Continue to Pollute the West There are some 500,000 abandoned mines in the U.S., 20 percent of which are severely polluting nearby rivers and groundwater. Most of the mines are in the West, and the U.S. EPA estimates that 40 percent of all Western headwater streams are now polluted by abandoned hard-rock mines. Poisoned rivers mean trout numbers are declining across the ...
Topics: mining and drilling, toxics, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Energy Asterisk On Energy Star labels	Umbra Fisk	23 Aug 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, When I see the Energy Star rating on an appliance, can I trust that some government or consumer group is monitoring the ratings, or is that just a commercial ploy? Who profits from the Energy Star thing? Not Starry-Eyed Bridgewater, N.J. Dearest Not Starry-Eyed, A green screen. Photo: EnergyStar.gov. Energy Star is a project of our very own U.S. EPA, with assistance from the Department of Energy. Products that meet Ener ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Department of Energy, energy, energy efficiency, green living, US EPA (all these topics)

Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety The Bush administration showed "reckless disregard" for public safety after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by failing to warn New Yorkers about the dangers of breathing the polluted air around the Twin Towers site, says a new Sierra Club report. According to the report: The Bush administration failed to warn the public abou ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs Environmental Defense is pushing the U.S. EPA to increase the pollution reductions it is set to impose on power companies in December. If the agency required industry to invest a minimum of up to 50 percent more -- for a total of $72 billion -- 3,000 additional lives would be saved and 140,000 additional children would avoid asth ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Premature Ululation Reports of pending EPA enforcement actions are, shall we say, premature	Amanda Griscom	20 Jul 2004	Muckraker
Is this power plant in trouble? Nah. Photo: USGS. What's this on the wires? The U.S. EPA is gearing up to prosecute a new batch of new-source review (NSR) cases against polluting power plants? Could it be that the Bushies have suddenly taken a keen interest in enforcing a Clean Air Act rule that they have gone to great lengths to weaken? Not really. The story goes like ...
Topics: air pollution, business, litigation, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Swing Dance EPA chief Mike Leavitt hits the swing states	Amanda Griscom	22 Jun 2004	Muckraker
Leavitt, alone. Photo: U.S. EPA. Have a look at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mike Leavitt's calendar over the last several months and you'll notice that it appears to be in lockstep with the Karl Rove playbook. "I'd hardly call it coincidence," said Beth Viola, a leading environmental strategist for the Kerry campaign, "that after the EPA spends nearly four years panderi ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Fowl Play Factory farms get off easy on air pollution	Amanda Griscom	19 May 2004	Muckraker
What do the National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation, United Egg Producers, and Tyson Foods have in common? Crying fowl. Photo: USDA. Well, first there's the obvious fowl connection. Then there's the foul connection: Their facilities, known as "concentrated animal feeding operations" (CAFOs), have growing air-pollution problems thanks to the mountains of gas-emitting excrement deposited ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, business, food, health, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Syzygy Whiz A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Bush's much-praised new diesel rules	Amanda Griscom	13 May 2004	Muckraker
Yes, dear skeptics, you heard correctly: The Bush administration done good this week. Digging these new rules. Landmark controls on diesel emissions, finalized Tuesday by the U.S. EPA, are expected to prevent 12,000 premature deaths and 15,000 heart attacks each year. And these were no warmed-over regs from the Clinton era, passed off as the Bushies' own, as was the case wi ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, oil, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Super-un-funded Superfund could be weakened by recommendations from EPA subcommittee	Amanda Griscom	06 May 2004	Muckraker
Arsenic in water, mercury emissions, new-source review, Dick Cheney's energy task force -- these are the issues that have elicited the loudest howls of protest about the Bush administration's environmental record during the past three years. By comparison, the grumbling over Superfund has been remarkably muted. Mountains of toxic waste dot the horizon around Tar Creek. Photo: U.S. E ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

Bush Family Values Marianne Horinko, high-ranking EPA official, steps down	Amanda Griscom	27 Apr 2004	Muckraker
The language is increasingly familiar: "I'm leaving at this time in order to spend more quality time with my family. ... I realize that I need to devote more time and energy to being [a] wife and mom." Marianne Horinko. Photo: U.S. EPA. Yep, another beleaguered Bush appointee at the U.S. EPA bites the dust. Christine Todd Whitman flew the coop last spring, and yesterday one of he ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Block the Vote Jeffords' bid to block EPA appointments could have welcome side effects	Amanda Griscom	14 Apr 2004	Muckraker
Jeffords speaking his mind. Photo: U.S. Senate. Asserting that he was confronting "truly life-and-death matters," Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) announced last week that as ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works he would exercise his powers to put a hold on four high-level appointments to the U.S. EPA. "I'm sorry it has come to this sa ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sticker Shocking The EPA has been misoverestimating the fuel economy of cars sold in the U.S., says enviro group	Amanda Griscom	02 Apr 2004	Muckraker
A whole lot of exaggerating going on. If you think the fuel economy of U.S. vehicles is dismal, well, you're right. Perhaps more right than you know. Official U.S. EPA statistics ascribe a pathetic average of 20.8 miles per gallon to the 2003 car fleet, about 6 percent lower than 15 years ago. The fleet averaged 22.1 mpg in 1987, before Americans got h ...
Topics: Bluewater Network, energy, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mercury Uprising Bush's mercury proposal draws heat from both sides of the aisle	Amanda Griscom	30 Mar 2004	Muckraker
The Capitol is heating up over mercury. Photo: NIH. A handful of Beltway wags are contending that mercury is the new arsenic, the latest symbol of official disregard for environmental health. Their claim is lent credence by an ongoing flurry of controversies surrounding the Bush administration's plan for dealing with the toxic pollutant. A revealing article published in the Los Angel ...
Topics: mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Regulate First, Ask Questions Later Flurry of Charges Leads EPA to Revisit Mercury Regs		16 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Regulate First, Ask Questions Later Flurry of Charges Leads EPA to Revisit Mercury Regs Amid a swirl of angry charges from states, environmental groups, and its own employees, the U.S. EPA is promising to revisit controversial proposed regulations on mercury emissions from power plants. Several EPA staffers -- who remain anonymous to avoid retaliation -- revealed what enviro groups have long suspected: The process whereby the regulations wer ...
Topics: toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

H2Oops EPA exaggerated claims about clean drinking water	Amanda Griscom	16 Mar 2004	Muckraker
That sinking feeling. The U.S. EPA claims it is successfully protecting the nation's drinking-water supplies -- but that claim seems to have sprung a leak. Earlier this month, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General accused officials in the agency of consistently making bogus statements about improvements in the quality of America's tap water. The charges are spelled out in a tellingly titled report: &q ...
Topics: health, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Do Good Call for a Greener Federal Budget		12 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Do Good Call for a Greener Federal Budget The Bush administration's budget proposal for 2005 puts environmental spending under the axe. Funding for the U.S. EPA would be cut by some 7 percent, money directed at endangered-species recovery efforts would be reduced by more than $9 million, funds for water-quality programs would be slashed by some 30 percent, and ... well, you get the idea. Tell the House and Senate budget committees to keep ...
Topics: politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dust Busted Manhattanites Sue EPA Over Mishandling of Enviro Hazards from Sept. 11		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Dust Busted Manhattanites Sue EPA Over Mishandling of Enviro Hazards from Sept. 11 The U.S. EPA mishandled the environmental hazards caused by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and put thousands of New Yorkers at risk, charges a class action lawsuit filed by 12 lower Manhattan workers and residents yesterday in U.S. District Court. The suit claims the EPA submitted to political pressure to return the area to &q ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, US EPA (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine Agencies Fight Over Trust Fund to Protect Groundwater from Nevada Mine		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Nevada, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Sore Eyes for Sites Eleven New Sites Proposed for Superfund		09 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Sore Eyes for Sites Eleven New Sites Proposed for Superfund The U.S. EPA yesterday proposed adding 11 new sites to its Superfund toxic-site cleanup program, but critics say the number is too small and the program woefully underfunded. The new sites represent the biggest, dirtiest, most complex cleanups in the country, the "real turkeys that the states don't want to touch," said EPA's Randolph Dietz. Since the program began in 1980, ...
Topics: toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin.		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin. It's a fable for our times: When the Bush administration took office in 2001, a battle over energy policy began. On one side was the U.S. EPA, with its team of long-time career employees and its moderate new head Christie Whitman. On the other side was Vice President Dick Cheney, the Energy Department under S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Plumbing New Depths D.C. Lead Contamination Casts Doubt on EPA Testing Methods		05 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Plumbing New Depths D.C. Lead Contamination Casts Doubt on EPA Testing Methods The ongoing drama over lead contamination in Washington, D.C., tap water promises to spill over (ahem) to the rest of the country, as a hearing on Capitol Hill today examines how federal agencies handle local drinking-water safety. Extensive testing of residential tap water by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority -- conducted in an ...
Topics: toxics, US EPA, Washington DC, water pollution (all these topics)

And Justice for All Bush EPA dilutes meaning of environmental justice	Amanda Griscom	04 Mar 2004	Muckraker
The U.S. EPA has failed to integrate environmental justice research into the development of its policies, says a report [PDF] released on Monday by the EPA's inspector general (IG), who operates an independent office within the agency. Play at your own risk. Photo: Environmental Defense. More troubling still, the EPA under President Bush seems to have watered down the very definition of environmen ...
Topics: environmental justice, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Asbestos Times, the Worst of Times U.S. Faces Coming Asbestos Health Crisis, Group Says		04 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Asbestos Times, the Worst of Times U.S. Faces Coming Asbestos Health Crisis, Group Says Despite the common public perception that asbestos went out with bell bottoms and disco, the fact is that asbestos -- like, uh, bell bottoms and disco -- is still with us. In fact, claims a report released today by the Environmental Working Group, we are poised to enter an asbestos-related public-health crisis: An estimated 1 ...
Topics: Environmental Working Group, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

And Justice for All EPA Diluting Meaning of Environmental Justice, Says Inspector General		04 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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