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You Get What You Pay For Two EPA Officials Accept Jobs with Utility Industry		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
You Get What You Pay For Two EPA Officials Accept Jobs with Utility Industry Two high-ranking officials at the U.S. EPA are defecting to industry lobbying posts, causing an outcry among environmentalists. John Pemberton, chief of staff to the EPA assistant administrator for air and radiation, plans to work for Southern Company, an electrical utility conglomerate, while Edward Krenik, EPA associate administrator for congress ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Real Bad Estate Bush Administration Lifts Ban on Selling PCB-Tainted Land		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Real Bad Estate Bush Administration Lifts Ban on Selling PCB-Tainted Land In yet another behind-the-scenes weakening of environmental rules, the Bush administration last month quietly ended a ban on the sale of land contaminated with PCBs. The 25-year-old ban was designed to prevent polluted sites from being redeveloped in ways that might expose the public to PCBs, which are believed to be carcinogens. The U.S. ...
Topics: land degradation, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Vehicular Geocide EPA Declines to Regulate Greenhouse Gases		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Vehicular Geocide EPA Declines to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Automakers and oil companies will not be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, the U.S. EPA announced yesterday. In 1999, three environmental organizations petitioned the agency to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, saying the gases contribute to climate change, which in turn causes public health threats ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, US EPA (all these topics)

To Make a Lung Story Short Clinton and Lieberman Push for Answers on Post-Sept. 11 Air Quality		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
To Make a Lung Story Short Clinton and Lieberman Push for Answers on Post-Sept. 11 Air Quality Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) yesterday demanded answers from President Bush about why New Yorkers were not given full information on air-pollution risks near Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Clinton and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) also called for a congress ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hazing Incident EPA Settles Case Over Haze in National Parks		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hazing Incident EPA Settles Case Over Haze in National Parks Visitors to U.S. national parks and other wild areas should be able to breathe a little easier in the future, thanks to a legal settlement signed yesterday by the U.S. EPA and Environmental Defense. Under the terms of the settlement, the agency has until April 2005 to cut haze in 156 national parks and wilderness areas, including Acadia ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support Mike Leavitt, President Bush's choice to become the next head of the U.S. EPA, knows that environmentally minded Democrats are going to make his confirmation hearings tough, so he's getting his ducks in a row. Within a day of his nomination by Bush, Leavitt had called Carol Browner, the EPA administrator under President Clinton, to ask if he could use her as a ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Love It or Leavitt Bush Taps Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to Head EPA		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Love It or Leavitt Bush Taps Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to Head EPA In a move that immediately (and predictably) generated strenuous objections from enviros, President Bush yesterday nominated three-term Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R) to take the helm at the U.S. EPA. Bush praised Leavitt as a consensus-builder and pointed to his bipartisan work with 13 governors and 13 tribal leaders to improve air quality in the Grand Canyon. Like Bush, L ...
Topics: politics, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

The 411 on 9/11 White House Pressed EPA to Say Air Was Safe After 9/11		11 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The 411 on 9/11 White House Pressed EPA to Say Air Was Safe After 9/11 In the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks, the White House pressured the U.S. EPA to issue unsupported statements reassuring the public that air quality around ground zero was safe, according to an investigation by the EPA's inspector general. Also, as a result of "influence" from the White House Council on Environmental Qua ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water The U.S. EPA may have fudged the numbers when it announced in a June report that "94 percent of the population served by community water systems were served by systems that met all health-based standards." Internal EPA documents suggest that the true number may be markedly lower -- 79 to 84 percent in 2002. The EPA's inspector genera ...
Topics: health, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Is That Your Final Answer?		28 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Is That Your Final Answer? The Bush administration surprised clean-air advocates and polluting industries alike on Friday when it announced that the U.S. EPA would reconsider parts of a decision to significantly relax air-pollution rules. In December, the EPA announced "final" revisions to the Clean Air Act's New Source Review rule -- changes that would have allowed tens of thousands of utilities, refineries, and factories t ...
Topics: air pollution, US EPA (all these topics)

Clear and Present Danger?		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Clear and Present Danger? For months, the U.S. EPA has withheld findings indicating that President Bush's proposed "Clear Skies" legislation would lead to more pollution-related deaths than a bipartisan Senate bill to fight air pollution, and that the bipartisan bill would not be much more costly than Clear Skies. A leaked copy of the EPA's data showed, among other things, that a bill spons ...
Topics: air pollution, ozone, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Down, but Not Out		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Down, but Not Out Here's a spot of good news: Releases of toxic chemicals by U.S. industries declined 15 percent between 2000 and 2001 (the most recent year for which data are available) and dropped by more than 50 percent since 1988. That's the latest word from the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory. Of course, that means there are still 6.2 billion pounds of toxic chemicals being ...
Topics: mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fisher Cuts Bait		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Fisher Cuts Bait U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman officially stepped down today -- and she wasn't alone. The agency's second-in-command, Linda Fisher, unexpectedly resigned as well, leaving the EPA without an obvious leader until a permanent successor is nominated and approved, a process that is expected to take many months. Like Whitman, Fisher expressed pride in the work done by the EPA during her tenure and said i ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Over and Out Read U.S. EPA Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher's letter of resignation.		27 Jun 2003	Muckraker
Linda Fisher, second in command at the U.S. EPA, resigned from her post as deputy administrator on June 26, 2003, just one day before her boss, Christie Whitman, stepped down. Like Whitman, Fisher cited her family as her reason for leaving, but Beltway scuttlebutt suggested that she was upset at being passed over to head the EPA. (Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) is currently rumored to be the top can ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Tainted Sludge, Whoa-oh		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tainted Sludge, Whoa-oh When the cows at Boyceland Dairy outside Augusta, Ga., began dying by the hundreds, the Boyce family thought they knew what was to blame: the fertilizer used on the farm's hayfields. That fertilizer was made from reclaimed sewage sludge; the Boyce family sued the city, claiming the sludge was tainted by industrial waste from Augusta factories. This week, a jury awarded them $550,000 in damages. That verdi ...
Topics: pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

White House Whitewash		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
White House Whitewash In a first-of-its-kind environmental survey released today, the U.S. EPA said that the nation's air, water, and land are cleaner and better protected than they were 30 years ago, though sprawl and air quality, among other problems, continue to pose challenges for the nation. But the survey's credibility was compromised by reports last week that the White House heavily edi ...
Topics: health, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Air Heads		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Air Heads California's San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Board unanimously approved a plan yesterday intended to improve some of the worst air quality in the nation -- but critics say the plan makes too many concessions to industry to be effective. Enviros, doctors, and residents who have suffered from respiratory ailments allege that efforts to reduce dust and diesel smoke will be fa ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Censor Censure		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Censor Censure Bowdlerizing what was meant to be the first-ever comprehensive report on environmental problems facing the U.S., the White House has deleted most of the information the report contained on global climate change and reduced the remainder to a few vague paragraphs. The omitted sections referred to findings that climate change is at least partly caused by emissions from vehicles and power plants and could have d ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

American Idle Who needs Superfund when we've got reality TV?	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	19 Jun 2003	Soapbox
By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA's Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million barely affords a study just to figure out how to clean up one of the 1,200 deserted dumps wasting away in American communities. Money's tight to fund cleanups of Superfund sites like this one in Pennsylvania. Photo ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

American Idle		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Environmental What Agency?		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Environmental What Agency? Rumors are heating up about who will fill the shoes of U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who announced her resignation last month and will step down June 27. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) and Tom Skinner, the EPA's Midwest regional administrator, seem to have risen above two earlier possibilities -- Deputy EPA Administrator Linda Fisher and Florida Department of Environmental Protection Se ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Shady Deals in the Sunshine State?		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Shady Deals in the Sunshine State? The Florida chapter of the Sierra Club is calling for the resignation of David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, even as Struhs is reportedly being considered as a possible replacement for Christie Whitman, who last month stepped down as administrator of the U.S. EPA. The Sierra Club accuses Struhs of having given false testimony before the state legislature when he s ...
Topics: Florida, US EPA (all these topics)

A Fine Kettle of Fish		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Fine Kettle of Fish The federal Clean Water Act might be a great thing in theory, but how's it doing in practice? Not so well, it turns out, due to the failure of the U.S. EPA to adequately enforce it. At any given moment, roughly 25 percent of all large industrial plants and water-treatment facilities are in violation of federal pollution standards -- but the EPA generally fails to ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

C02, Too?		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
C02, Too? Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts sued the federal government yesterday to force it to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit, which alleges that the emissions fuel global warming and should therefore be governed by the Clean Air Act, marks the first time a state has sued the government to force it to take action on climate change. The three ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Oh, the Humanity		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Oh, the Humanity Before they can be put on the market, pesticides are usually tested for safety on animals. Government regulators then establish an exposure level for humans that is 10 times more conservative than the safety level for animals. In an effort to abolish the tenfold safety net, pesticide companies frequently sponsor clinical tests on volunteers to try to prove that their products are as ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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