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More on EPA's waiver decision	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: US EPA, California, air pollution, fuel efficiency, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Johnson's nuts Analysis of the EPA's decision to deny California's waiver	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA, California, climate, energy (all these topics)

EPA: Nay U.S. EPA won't let California enact vehicle greenhouse-gas limits		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 19 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA has denied California the waiver it needed to enact a state law requiring a 30 percent reduction in vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016. Said EPA chief Stephen Johnson, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution -- not a confusing patchwork of state rules -- to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles." But that decision w ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Breaking: EPA announcing ruling on California waiver at 6:30 Eastern	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: US EPA, air pollution, politics, California, energy, climate (all these topics)

Annals of irritance Feinstein agrees with Big Auto about federal fuel efficiency standards	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: legislation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, US EPA, Big Auto, air pollution, politics (all these topics)

Letting Goad White House pressured EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements, GAO says		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 7:15 AM on 13 Dec 2007 Congress' investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, has concluded that the Bush White House pressured the U.S. EPA to ease toxics reporting requirements for businesses. The Toxics Release Inventory was born in 1986 and serves as a community right-to-know tool, requiring that companies report annually on their toxic pollution. However, the EPA, apparently under p ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Corn ethanol to the max Bush to ethanol industry: don't worry, you're gonna get your fat mandate	Tom Philpott	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, ethanol, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Thorn in Our Sulfide U.S. EPA considers regulating hydrogen sulfide, industry not into the idea		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:29 PM on 11 Dec 2007 It may be shocking to learn that a gas with the odor of rotten eggs is actually not good for you, but sure enough: the U.S. EPA is considering regulating hydrogen sulfide, a nasty-smelling gas that emanates from oil refineries, paper mills, landfills, CAFOs, and any other place where organic material containing sulfur decomposes. Hydrogen sulfide is known to be dead ...
Topics: air pollution, health, jackassery, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sterile Soil, Dirty Hands An EPA-approved pesticide is worse than the one it's replacing	Tom Philpott	06 Dec 2007	Victual Reality
"The soil is, as a matter of fact, full of live organisms. It is essential to conceive of it as something pulsating with life, not as a dead or inert mass." -- Albert Howard, The Soil and Health, 1947 Strawberry fields poisoned forever? Photo: iStockphoto In October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted temporary approval for use of methyl iodide, a highly to ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, food, toxics, US EPA, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Air Pressure States petition U.S. EPA to regulate airline emissions		05 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 05 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA should regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from aircraft going in and out of U.S. airports, say five states that filed a petition today. "The EPA has abdicated its responsibility in this area for years, and it won't do its job until it's legally required to do so," says California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who joined with Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania ...
Topics: air travel, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Angrier By the Dozen EPA sued by 12 states over relaxed toxic-chemical rule		29 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:07 AM on 29 Nov 2007 The U.S. EPA's moves to relax the nation's toxics reporting rule will not go unchallenged. Twelve states have announced they're suing the agency over rule changes to the Toxics Release Inventory that allow companies to file less-informative reports and escape reporting if they release less than 5,000 pounds of toxic chemicals, up from the previous threshold, set under President Reagan, o ...
Topics: litigation, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Suit of Damocles California sues feds over vehicle-emissions rule		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:04 PM on 08 Nov 2007 After months of tough talk and finger-wagging, the state of California on Thursday filed suit against the U.S. EPA to force a decision on a contentious greenhouse-gas emissions rule. At issue is whether California can enact its own regulations for vehicle emissions, bypassing the feds; it filed a waiver in late 2005 asking for permission to do so, and the EPA has been kicking the idea around e ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, US EPA (all these topics)

Catch a Waiver and You're Sittin' on Top of the World California to sue EPA to force decision on vehicle-emissions waiver		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:26 AM on 22 Oct 2007 California is expected to follow through on its threat to sue the U.S. EPA this week for not yet deciding whether to give the state the waiver it needs to implement its 2002 law limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from cars. The state's law requires a nearly 30 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016, which experts say can only r ...
Topics: California, climate change mitigation, litigation, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Clean water jacked While industrial agriculture fouls the Mississippi, the EPA cowers in the corner	Tom Philpott	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, legislation, Mississippi River, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Owl Be Seeing You Plan for northern spotted owl's recovery in question		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:57 AM on 18 Oct 2007 The future of the infamous northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest may be in further jeopardy if some U.S. federal agencies carry out their plans to restructure its recovery. Perhaps most potentially destructive is the Bureau of Land Management's recently announced plan to essentially opt out of the Northwest Forest Plan -- a truce of sorts between loggers and environmentalists that has ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, endangered species, news, United States, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

They're Busy Not Enforcing the Clean Air Act EPA not enforcing Clean Water Act, says report		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 12 Oct 2007 The U.S. EPA is not so much enforcing the Clean Water Act, says a new report from green group U.S. PIRG. According to EPA data, 57 percent of the country's industrial plants and municipal wastewater facilities dumped more than the allowable level of pollutants and sewage into waterways at least once in 2005, the most recent year that records are available. The average vio ...
Topics: Indiana, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Rule 1: Do Not Drink CO2 EPA will develop industry regulations for carbon sequestration		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:21 AM on 12 Oct 2007 Setting aside questions of technical challenges and commercial viability, the U.S. EPA has announced that it will develop industry regulations for carbon sequestration by power plants. By next summer, expect exciting new regulations to "ensure there is a consistent and effective permit system under the Safe Drinking Water Act" for injecting captured carbon dioxide d ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, energy, news, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Settling the Scourge AEP settlement exempts company from enforcement for 10 years		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:56 AM on 11 Oct 2007 Earlier this week brought news of a settlement agreement between utility giant American Electric Power and the U.S. EPA in which the company agreed to install some $4.6 billion in pollution controls at some of its power plants and pay over $70 million in penalties and cleanup costs. Today, The Washington Post reported that the agreement contained language exempting the company from ...
Topics: business, litigation, news, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Through Hell and High Yogurt Yogurt-maker Dannon agrees to pay fine, treat wastewater in EPA settlement		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:21 AM on 10 Oct 2007 International yogurt giant Dannon has agreed to pay a fine of $71,350 and install a multimillion-dollar automated wastewater control system as part of a settlement with the U.S. EPA. There have been some 10 illegal discharges over the past few years at the company's 3-million-cup-a-day yogurt plant in Ohio -- and it's not just spilled yogurt. In February 2005, ...
Topics: business, news, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Berry Bad News EPA approves carcinogenic pesticide		08 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:45 PM on 08 Oct 2007 Just when we think the U.S. EPA might have some sense, it goes and approves a carcinogenic pesticide, ignoring scientists' warnings that "pregnant women and the fetus, children, the elderly, farmworkers, and other people living near application sites would be at serious risk." As a substitute for ozone-depleting fumigant methyl bromide, California and Florida strawberry growers and other farmers will w ...
Topics: agriculture, California, Florida, health, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Vermiculite Reading EPA refuses to warn homeowners about asbestos exposure from insulation		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:19 AM on 05 Oct 2007 If you happen to be reading through the U.S. EPA website -- which you no doubt do every day -- you might come across a warning that some 35 million homes nationwide contain insulation processed with asbestos-contaminated vermiculite from infamous Libby, Mont. If you ask the agency about it, they'd be happy to send you a pamphlet -- but they're sure not going to come right ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, green living, health, insanity, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The environmental justice braintrust A dispatch from the Congressional Black Caucus conference	Grist	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: environmental justice, legislation, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

But They Make a Mean Martini U.S. EPA is bad at environmental protection		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:52 PM on 01 Oct 2007 Shocking, shocking news can be discerned from U.S. EPA and Justice Department data: the EPA is totally slacking on cracking down on polluters. From the Archives Tough Ship. U.S. food aid low, getting lower. Roll On, Columbia. British Columbia premier announces climate plan. Into the Breach. DOE hasn't opened Yucca nuclear-waste dump, must pay millions for breach of ...
Topics: news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Iodide and Gone to Heaven EPA delays approval of nasty pesticide		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:06 PM on 28 Sep 2007 Delightfully defying our dire predictions, the U.S. EPA will (again) delay approval of nasty pesticide methyl iodide, after 54 scientists wrote a letter expressing shock that the agency was even considering giving such a toxic chemical the thumbs-up for agricultural use. source:� Associated Press From the Archives Dimmockery. British citizen sues government over distributi ...
Topics: agriculture, news, progress, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sludging Along U.S. agencies don't prioritize public in toxin-affected communities		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:27 AM on 28 Sep 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy found high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide in the soil of suburban Versailles, Pa., and has neglected to inform local officials. The U.S. EPA was lackadaisical about cleaning up toxic paint sludge left by automaker Ford in Trenton, N.J., and disregarded complaints from the community. Luckily, those failures of the U.S. government to protect and infor ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, jackassery, New Jersey, news, Pennsylvania, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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