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New Sours Review		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
New Sours Review Opposition to the Bush administration's efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act is growing, with California, Wisconsin, and Illinois yesterday joining 10 Northeastern states in filing lawsuits against the U.S. EPA. At issue is a decision to weaken the act's New Source Review rules, which historically have prohibited aged power plants from upgrading their facilities without installing state-of-the-art pollution ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Rootworm of All Evil		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Rootworm of All Evil In a major win for the biotech industry, the U.S. government yesterday gave Monsanto the green light to sell corn that has been genetically modified to resist rootworm disease, the most significant threat to the crop. The effort to combat rootworm has been the single biggest reason farmers use pesticides, so the decision will be a test case of whether genetically modified crops will bene ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

In the Doghouse		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
In the Doghouse The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would review a clean air case that could determine when the federal government can overrule state environmental decisions. The case concerns the Red Dog mine in Alaska, which produces zinc and lead. Two years ago, when the mine sought to build a new diesel generator, the state Department of Environmental ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Wheels of Misfortune		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

No Kidding		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
No Kidding Combating environmental hazards has helped improve children's health, according to a new report by the White House and the U.S. EPA. The report, which is scheduled to be released shortly, found that childhood lead poisoning and children's exposure to second-hand smoke have both declined, largely due to targeted campaigns. However, the remaining cases of lead poisoning disproportionately affect poor and min ...
Topics: air pollution, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List No surprise: Pickup trucks and oversized SUVs scored the lowest on the U.S. EPA's latest ranking of vehicles based on tailpipe emissions. The list graded vehicles on a scale of 0 to 10. Large SUVs like BMW's X5 and General Motors' Hummer H2 earned a 0 and a 2, respectively, while most small and medium SUVs earned ...
Topics: air pollution, business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Blood Sugar Sex Toxic		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Blood Sugar Sex Toxic Americans have lower levels of lead in their bodies than they did a decade ago, but there's plenty of contamination from other toxic chemicals to worry about. In the broadest study of its kind, conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers tested blood and urine samples from more than 2,000 Americans, searching for traces of 116 chemicals. One of several troubling findings: Almos ...
Topics: health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Taking a Smaller Bite Out of Grime		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Taking a Smaller Bite Out of Grime Polluting industries are getting off easy under the Bush administration, according to U.S. EPA data released yesterday by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). In the two years since President Bush took office, civil penalties for breaking environmental laws dropped by almost 50 percent, to $55 million, while criminal penalties dropped by more than one-third, to $62 ...
Topics: business, John Dingell, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ...
Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics)

Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword Following in the footsteps of nine other northeastern states, Pennsylvania went to court yesterday to block new, less stringent federal air-pollution regulations from taking effect. The Pennsylvania case is separate from one filed by the other states, but the issue is the same: the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act, which once requ ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, Northeast, Pennsylvania, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Black Labs		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Black Labs Private laboratories have been caught faking environmental test results, according to officials in the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department. Companies often use private laboratories to test air, water, soil, petroleum, underground tanks, and other products and indicators; a clean tests yields a certificate of compliance with environmental regulation ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, environmental justice, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Homeland Defense		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New England, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Hogwash		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Hogwash The U.S. EPA unveiled new livestock-waste regulations yesterday designed to keep billions of pounds of unhealthful pollutants out the nation's waterways annually. The rules, which were issued in compliance with a court mandate from a 1989 lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, will require some 15,500 factory farms to obtain government permits to dispose of live ...
Topics: food and agriculture, NRDC, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

This Ain't Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is.		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
This Ain't Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is. The U.S. Pentagon is a major source of perchlorate, the main ingredient of solid rocket fuel and a toxic chemical that can cause neurological problems and developmental damage in infants and children, and possibly cancer and other serious ailments in adults. For decades, millions of Americans have been exposed unknowingly to perchlorate through their ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

At Whitman's End? Rumors of the EPA chief stepping down may not be greatly exaggerated		13 Dec 2002	Muckraker
It takes one to know one, they say, so when Eric Schaeffer indicates that U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Whitman might jump ship, we sit up and take notice. Schaeffer, the former director of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, resigned last February to protest the agency's failure to fulfill its mission to advocate on behalf of the environment. It's unlikely, to say the least, that Whitma ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Dow of Poo		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Dow of Poo Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for dioxin pollution, a move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The proposed change, which has also angered Gov.-elect Jennifer Granholm (D) ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, health, Hudson River, Michigan, New York, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Hard Rowe to Hoe		26 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Hard Rowe to Hoe Some heavyweight funders have ponied up $10 million to create a National Commission on Energy Policy, pulling together former members of the Bush and Clinton administrations and representatives from industry and environmental groups to recommend a long-range energy plan for the United States. Over the next two years, the commission intends to develop a "centrist approach" between Republicans and ...
Topics: energy, NRDC, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

New Source, Same Old Crap		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
New Source, Same Old Crap In the most far-reaching move to relax air pollution rules in years, the Bush administration on Friday gave refineries new flexibility to upgrade their facilities without having to reduce emissions. The U.S. EPA also outlined proposals that would give aging coal-fired power plants a similar advantage - ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Air Enforce Won		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Air Enforce Won After years of court battles, the U.S. EPA agreed yesterday to begin enforcing a stricter standard for ozone pollution that was developed by the Clinton administration in 1997. Industry groups such as the American Truckers Associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block the standard, bu ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Respirators Still Needed in Yellowstone		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Respirators Still Needed in Yellowstone Rolling back a Clinton-era decision that would have banned snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks by the upcoming winter, the Bush administration plans to place no limits on snowmobiles until December 2003 and then to cap the number of snowmobiles at 1,100 per day. For the past decade, the parks have had an average of 840 snowmobiles ...
Topics: National Park Service, national parks, NRDC, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Bucks Stop Here		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Bucks Stop Here The Bush administration slaps fewer polluters with fines than did the Clinton administration, and those it does nab get far gentler punishments, according to federal records compiled by Eric Schaeffer, the former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement. In the first 20 months of the Bush administration, civil penalties plunged nearly 56 percent, compared to those lev ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Sites for Sore Eyes		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sites for Sore Eyes High-priority toxic waste clean-ups at seven sites in the U.S. will be left incomplete this year due to Superfund shortages, according to a report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general. The sites include two former wood-treatment facilities in Texas that are leaching chemicals into nearby water supplies, an abandoned copper mine in Vermont polluting a river, and a former Indiana steel plant containing ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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