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Laughy Tafty		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Laughy Tafty The U.S. EPA has warned Ohio that it could soon be stripped of federal highway funds for failing to enforce national clean air standards. The move would be a major blow to the state, which receives more than $900 million in federal road funds every year. The EPA could also stiffen the pollution levels allowed in clean air permits, halting construction of some major non-government projects in the state. The EPA issu ...
Topics: air pollution, Ohio, US EPA (all these topics)

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model Unless you live there, you probably haven't been following the brouhaha in North Dakota. So here's the skinny: The U.S. EPA insists that the state is in violation of air quality standards because of the high concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air at the otherwise-pristine Theodore Roosevelt National Park and a national wildlife refuge. The state, meanwhile, ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, North Dakota, US EPA (all these topics)

Curse D' Alene		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Curse D' Alene In a precedent-setting move, U.S. federal officials signed an agreement yesterday ceding control of the cleanup of Idaho's highly polluted Coeur d'Alene Basin to state, local, and tribal officials. For more than a century, mining waste from the Silver Valley washed down the Coeur d'Alene River into Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, and from there into Lake ...
Topics: Idaho, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

More Than Meats the Eye		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
More Than Meats the Eye In the last two decades, there's been a national growth spurt in super-sized animal feedlots and slaughterhouses. That spurt has outpaced the ability of regulators to keep such places operating safely and cleanly -- and that has led to polluted water bodies, food safety scares, and on-the-job injuries, according to a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

That's the Way the Cookie Grumbles		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
That's the Way the Cookie Grumbles As anticipated, the U.S. EPA announced yesterday that it would seek to alter a key Clean Water Act anti-pollution program in order to give states more flexibility in restoring their waterways. Under the revised program, states would develop and implement plans to clean up more than 20,000 dirty rivers, lakes, and estuaries. While the federal government would provide guidelines, over ...
Topics: United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Watered Down		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Watered Down Nearly a third of all major industrial facilities and state-operated sewage-treatment plants in the U.S. have significantly violated clean water regulations in the last two years, and one out of four operated on an expired pollution permit last year, according to a recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Moreover, relatively few of the noncompliant facilities have fa ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Cruise Control		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cruise Control Norwegian Cruise Line, the fourth-largest cruise company in the world, will pay a $1.5 million fine for illegally dumping oil and untreated wastewater into the ocean, and subsequently lying about its actions. The company kept a false logbook and for three years lied to the Coast Guard about unlawful discharges off the coast ...
Topics: Alaska, business, Florida, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Honda Prelude		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Honda Prelude Honda predicted yesterday that one of its hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars could hit the road in California by the end of the year. The forecast came after the auto manufacturer's FCX became the first fuel-cell car to be certified by the U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board as a low-emissions vehicle. Honda hopes to have 30 of the four-seaters operating in Ca ...
Topics: Asia, California, placemaking, state politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Ex-siting		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Ex-siting The U.S. EPA has restored Superfund monies to clean up 11 toxic sites, despite having told local officials at the sites that they would not receive any money this year. But only four of the sites will get the full amount requested by the officials. Last month, a report by the agency's inspector general listed 33 sites in 18 states that would not receive requested funds; with the recent shift, t ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Whistleblow While You Work		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Whistleblow While You Work Citing laws designed to protect institutional whistleblowers, the Labor Department has ordered the U.S. EPA to reinstate a former investigator to "ombudsman-related duties." The department concluded that EPA policy analyst Hugh Kaufman was removed from those duties in retaliation for complaining about the agency -- in other words, for doing his job too well. As an ass ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Daily Load		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Daily Load The Bush administration could slash a key program of the Clean Water Act requiring federal oversight of states' efforts to restore polluted bodies of water. About 300,000 miles of rivers and shorelines and 5 million acres of lakes in the U.S. are categorized as "impaired water bodies" in need of remediation, but for decades, some states neglected their cleanup. That began to shift ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Coca Is It!		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying "does not pose unreasonable risks or adverse effects to humans or the environment." The herbicide in use in C ...
Topics: Colombia, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Lack of Response Ability		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lack of Response Ability The U.S. EPA is "not fully prepared" to handle a large-scale nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack on the country, according to an internal assessment by the agency. The report was commissioned by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman in response to the attacks of Sept. 11 and strongly suggests that if those attacks had involved nuclear, biological, or chemical weap ...
Topics: nuclear power, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

New Snooze Review		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
New Snooze Review A proposal to alter the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act will be announced today, according to the U.S. EPA. The rule requires companies to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading aging power plants. The utility industry has lobbied intensely against New Source Review, saying it should apply only to extensive, non-routine expansio ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dozing Off		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dozing Off More than 8,500 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution from off-road diesel-fueled equipment not regulated by the federal government, according to a new study by state air pollution control officials. Earthmovers, bulldozers, agricultural equipment, and other such vehicles emit extraordinarily high levels of pollution that have been linked ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Mixed Bag		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Mixed Bag In a study of the cumulative health risks of pesticides, the U.S. has found that only two of the 30 pesticides it studied pose an unacceptable threat to human health when combined. The study was conducted in response to a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and its findings were announced yesterday evening, just hours after a federal appeals court rejected the third attempt by the pesticide ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Quest Called Tribe		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Quest Called Tribe U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman acknowledged this week that it was "all too apparent that EPA needs to do more" to help tackle environmental problems on tribal lands. Whitman's announcement came during the Sixth National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, held this week in Sparks, Nev. The conference focuses on mining, water and air ...
Topics: air pollution, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Quitting Time		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Quitting Time Back in March, Eric Schaeffer made a big media splash by resigning after years as head of enforcement at the U.S. EPA over differences with the Bush administration's environmental policies. But the truth is that Schaeffer was just the tip of the iceberg. From senior career administrators to lawyers to leading scientists, a number of longtime, highly respected officials have left environmental jobs in the admin ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Golden State Worriers		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Golden State Worriers A large portion of the American are at risk of developing cancer from exposure to any of 32 common toxic chemicals, according to the first nationwide study of the toxins, released Friday by the U.S. EPA. About 200 million face roughly a 1 in 100,000 lifetime risk, while about 20 million people -- many of them in the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas -- face a risk as high as 1 in 5 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Stranger in a Familiar Land		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

New Sue Review		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
New Sue Review Oral arguments were heard yesterday in the U.S. EPA's lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power provider. Lawyers for the EPA argued that the TVA violated the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act by failing to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading its older coal-burning ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, pollution and waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Slim Pickins, Whitman		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Pickins, Whitman In an apparent effort to diffuse criticism from environmentalists, the Bush administration is considering stepping up legal action against some polluting utility companies. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has ordered the agency's regional enforcement officials to look for companies that have violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading power plants with ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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