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Pests Aside		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Pests Aside For the first time in a decade, the U.S. EPA will assess the impact of 18 common pesticides on endangered salmon and forest plants, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by three California environmental groups. The pesticides -- several million pounds of them -- are used every year in the state's fie ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Science Fry Day		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Science Fry Day A $10 million annual fellowship program that provides money to graduate students in environmental science, policy, and engineering has been eliminated by the Bush administration, officials announced late last week. The fellowships, which were part of the U.S. EPA's Science to Achieve Results program, were the only federal monies specifically earmarked to fund environmental studies students. Prior to being axed, ...
Topics: education, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lake Manna From Heaven?		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lake Manna From Heaven? The U.S. EPA has unveiled a new Bush administration plan to protect and restore the Great Lakes. The plan aims to reduce PCB concentration in some Great Lakes fish species, restore or enhance 100,000 acres of wetland in the Great Lakes Basin, decrease introductions of invasive species, and accelerate the clean-up of contaminated sites. However, the government has not set ...
Topics: Great Lakes, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Slim Victory for Whitman		27 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Victory for Whitman The U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the Clinton administration's clean air standards for ozone and particulate pollution, ending a five-year campaign by industry groups to have the standards overturned. To the chagrin of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Trucking Associations, and others, the court ruled that the U.S. EPA did not exceed its authority in setting the standards and that ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dis Solutia		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Dis Solutia The U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice plan to file a cleanup consent decree today with Solutia and Pharmacia (the company that owns Monsanto), in a move that could overrule any court-ordered cleanup of PCBs from a former Monsanto chemical plant in Anniston, Ala. Under the decree, the two companies would investigate the scope of contamination from the former plant and the resulting ecological and human h ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys!		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys! Ever since President Bush took office, the war against air pollution hasn't been going well -- but environmentalists do win the occasional battle. Case in point: The U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region chief, Wayne Hector Nastri, recently succeeded in convincing one of the biggest polluters in the Southwest to clean up its act. Tucson Electric Power Co. hoped to double ...
Topics: Arizona, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Get the Lead Out		21 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Get the Lead Out Residents of northern Idaho are fiercely resisting a plan by the U.S. EPA to expand a 21-square-mile area into one of the country's largest Superfund sites. That's not so unusual -- many towns resist Superfund designation, fearing that the stigma will drive away tourists and businesses. But some northern Idaho towns have filed a lawsuit to block expansion of the cleanup. The EPA has been working in the area since the ...
Topics: Idaho, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mind the Gap		20 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Mind the Gap Environmentalists and public-health advocates in California are upset over a new state regulation that allows low-level radioactive waste to be dumped in municipal landfills instead of federally regulated nuclear waste storage facilities. Citing the possibility of increased cancer risks, the Sierra Club and a nuclear policy group, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, are ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics)

Remote Controls		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Remote Controls After months of internal debate, the Bush administration has decided (surprise, surprise) to replace pollution lawsuits with voluntary incentives to encourage coal-powered utilities and oil refineries to clean up their acts, according to U.S. EPA officials. The Clinton administration sued dozens of the country's worst polluting power plants for violating New Source Review rules, which r ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Boy Oh Boise		14 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Boy Oh Boise The timber and paper giant Boise Cascade agreed yesterday to settle a federal lawsuit, filed by the U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice, accusing the company of violating the New Source Review regulations of the Clean Air Act. The regulations require companies to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when upgrading facilities; the suit alleged that Boise Cascade failed to do so at eight plants in four states. Alt ...
Topics: air pollution, US EPA (all these topics)

Supercuts		13 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Supercuts U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman faced tough questioning from Congress members yesterday as she tried to defend her agency's decision to cut the number of Superfund toxic waste cleanups in half, from more than 80 per year during the Clinton administration to about 40 under President Bush. Whitman blamed the cuts on lack of funding; House Republicans have blocked reauthorization of an expired tax on polluting compa ...
Topics: politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Resigned to His Fate		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Top EPA offical resigns Read the resignation letter from Eric Schaeffer, former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement		01 Mar 2002	Muckraker
The following letter of resignation was submitted on Feb. 27, 2002, by Eric Schaeffer, head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, to protest White House and Energy Department attempts to weaken federal clean air policy. Schaeffer's resignation has prompted Senate hearings into the Bush administration's environmental record. Christine Wh ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Hot to Rot?		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Hot to Rot? The U.S. EPA announced this week a two-year phase out of an arsenic-based preservative used to pressure-treat lumber against rot and insect damage. The treated wood is popular for use in fences, decks, and playground equipment, and its manufacturers and vendors -- including Home Depot and other building-supply stores -- currently face a class-action suit for an alleged failure to adequately warn ...
Topics: business, green living, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Grants' Tomb?		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grants' Tomb? The U.S. EPA has awarded more than $2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993 through a process that the agency's internal watchdog says is seriously flawed. Many grants were awarded without competitive bids, and some groups may have received preferential treatment. Some of the awards went to organizations that subsequently sued the EPA -- although presumably w ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Smoke Scream		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Readers' Rare Bits		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, rainforests, US EPA (all these topics)

A Developer's Wet Dream		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Developer's Wet Dream The Bush administration weakened protection for wetlands, streams, and swamps across the U.S. yesterday by making changes to the Clean Water Act, despite the objections of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The changes, which were proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers and approved by the White House, make it eas ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Once There Were Brownfields		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Once There Were Brownfields President Bush headed to Pennsylvania on Friday to sign into a law a five-year plan to revitalize brownfield sites around the country. Under the plan, which was approved by Congress last month, the feds will allocate up to $250 million per year to states, local governments, and Native American tribes, with the goal of cleaning up some 450,000 of the polluted industrial sites. ...
Topics: Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Coughing in a Winter Wonderland		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coughing in a Winter Wonderland Be glad you're not on the planning committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. First there was terrorism to worry about; now there's the weather. Salt Lake's squeaky-clean image could suffer a blow if the world gets a glimpse of the woeful air pollution that plagues the city in the winter. Snow in Salt Lake City usually means a temperature inversion, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

The Dredge Great-Scott Decision		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
The Dredge Great-Scott Decision U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said yesterday that her agency would order General Electric to spend almost $500 million to dredge PCBs from the upper Hudson River. In doing so, Whitman disregarded a multi-million-dollar P.R. campaign by the giant company claiming that dredging would not improve the river's health. Enviros, who had feare ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Take That Back		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Take That Back Maryland yesterday became the first state to lose the authority to enforce federal clean air laws. The loss is the result of the state's failure to act on a U.S. EPA order to create more public participation in the industrial permit application process. Under Maryland law, only the owners of property abutting an industria ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Maryland, pollution and waste, US EPA, Virginia, Washington DC (all these topics)

Speaking Ingest		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Speaking Ingest The Bush administration has promised the pesticide industry that it will overturn a Clinton-era policy that prohibited using information obtained from industry studies on human subjects to determine pesticide limits. Under the new policy, which hasn't yet been officially announced, the U.S. EPA would be able to set limits based on data from tests in which paid volunteers ingest small amounts of pesticides, ...
Topics: health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

In the Navy, You Can Soil the Seven Seas		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
In the Navy, You Can Soil the Seven Seas Donald Schregardus, who was nominated by President Bush to head the U.S. EPA enforcement division but withdrew from consideration following public outcry and opposition in the Senate, has been appointed to an environmental post in the Navy. Schregardus spent 17 years with the federal EPA and was director of the Ohio EPA for eight years; environmental organizations say that in the latter ca ...
Topics: politics, US EPA, US Navy (all these topics)

'Failure to Act' -- Can We Blame Hollywood?		02 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
"Failure to Act" -- Can We Blame Hollywood? A coalition of California environmental, health, and community organizations sued the U.S. EPA yesterday for neglecting to enforce clean air standards in the state's infamously smoggy Central Valley. An EPA official acknowledged that the agency had "failed to act" on a 1997 plan to improve air quality and said the lawsuit would force the agency to im ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, US EPA (all these topics)

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