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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)

American Idle		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, toxics, 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)

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)

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)

Data Dumping		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Data Dumping Think the U.S. EPA is keeping tabs on water pollution around the country? Think again. The agency's computer system for tracking and controlling water pollution is outmoded, riddled with bad data, and lacks information on thousands of sources of serious pollution, according to a report released last week by the EPA's inspector general. Efforts to fix the computer system have been slow, underfu ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Whittled Away		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Whittled Away U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman handed President Bush her letter of resignation yesterday, citing the desire to spend more time with her family. Whitman, who was frequently at odds with the Bush administration and constantly under fire from conservationists and industry leaders alike, did not mention political differences as a factor in her decision to step down from her post. Her resignation -- which will be effectiv ...
Topics: politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Whittled Away Read U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman's letter of resignation		21 May 2003	Muckraker
Christine Todd Whitman sent the following communication to all U.S. EPA employees on May 21, 2003, the day after she resigned her post as EPA administrator. The communication includes her letter of resignation to President Bush, dated May 20, 2003. To All EPA Employees: Yesterday afternoon, I met with President Bush at the White House and tendered to him my resignation as Administrator of the EPA, ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

A Loophole in the Ozone		16 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Loophole in the Ozone Ending a six-year battle, the U.S. EPA reintroduced proposals yesterday for new standards to combat ozone, which causes smog. At issue in the battle was whether the ozone-pollution controls outlined by Congress in the 1990 Clean Air Act should apply to moderately polluted metropolitan areas. The act divided polluted areas into categories ranging from mild to severe ...
Topics: air pollution, ozone, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Respect Your Elders		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Respect Your Elders U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced yesterday that the Bush administration put the "citizen" back in "senior citizen" by ending its practice of devaluing the lives of older people when calculating the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. Nicknamed the "senior discount," the highly controversial computational method involved valuing the lives of those older tha ...
Topics: United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Farmer and the Smell		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Farmer and the Smell The U.S. EPA could offer large industrial livestock farms amnesty from the federal Clean Air Act and Superfund laws, according to people involved in agency-industry talks. Rather than enforce the laws, the EPA would monitor pollution levels at roughly 30 large hog and chicken operations, a plan environmentalists and former enforcement officials say is far too lenient -- so lenie ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Wow We		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wow We For the second time in the last two weeks, a major utility company has reached a settlement with the U.S. EPA to clean up its act under the New Source Review rules of the federal Clean Air Act. Last week, it was the Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources; now, it's We Energies, a Wisconsin electric company that will spend as much as $600 million to upgrade plants and reduce emissions in ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, Michigan, US EPA, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Baby, You Can Drive My Car		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Baby, You Can Drive My Car A number of the U.S. EPA's best-trained pollution cops are being taken away from their normal crime-busting duties and put to work as bodyguards, chauffeurs, and even gofers for EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Frustrated EPA enforcement managers anonymously report that this practice disrupts high-stakes investigations into violations of environmental laws. Agents have been ordered to do everything from return ...
Topics: politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Kerry on		22 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Kerry on Massachusetts Democratic Senator and 2004 presidential contender John Kerry is honoring Earth Day today by calling on the federal government to protect the human and ecological health of poor and minority communities through strengthening its commitment to environmental justice. In a speech this afternoon, Kerry demanded the creation of a new environmenta ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, health, Massachusetts, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Progress of Engines		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
The Progress of Engines Bulldozers, tractors, irrigation equipment, and other diesel-powered off-road machines will be subject to stricter emissions standards under a new plan announced yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The plan calls for cutting emissions by up to 95 percent, a move that would bring the standards for off-road vehicles in line with those for cars and trucks for the first time in decades. Off-road diese ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Aroma, but No Therapy		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Aroma, but No Therapy You don't know smelly until you've been in the vicinity of a massive factory farm, or, as they say in the biz, a "concentrated animal-feeding operation." State and local air-quality officials fear that the stench and, more importantly, the accompanying air pollution from such facilities won't get under control anytime soon because the U.S. EPA ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics)

Coal Miner's Slaughter West Virginia activist Julia Bonds takes on mountaintop-removal mining	Michelle Nijhuis	14 Apr 2003	Main Dish
The ancient mountains of Appalachia are corrugated with deep, narrow valleys, some of them no wider than a football field. Coal-mining families, who have lived in these valleys for generations, are now being driven out of their homes by the latest innovation of the very industry that has sustained them for so many years. That innovation, mountaintop-removal mining, litera ...
Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, interview, US EPA, West Virginia (all these topics)

Alcoa-holics		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Alcoa-holics Two of the nation's corporate giants, Alcoa and Archer Daniels Midland, have agreed to settle charges of violating the New Source Review rules of the federal Clean Air Act by making upgrades ballparked at some $700 million, according to people familiar with the settlements. Alcoa, the world's largest producer of aluminum, has 12 months to cut sulfur dioxide emissions at a plant in Rockdale, Tex., by ...
Topics: air pollution, business, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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