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Standing in the face of global warming Do federal courts have jurisdiction in Massachusetts v. EPA?	Justin Pidot	07 Dec 2006	Gristmill

Topics: climate, litigation, Massachusetts, US EPA (all these topics)

Plumb Crazy U.S. EPA considers delisting lead as an air pollutant		07 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Plumb Crazy U.S. EPA considers delisting lead as an air pollutant That sound you hear? It's jaws dropping everywhere in response to the U.S. EPA's announcement that it might stop regulating lead as an air pollutant. Citing the fact that concentrations of the toxic heavy metal in the air have dropped 90 percent since 1980, and using logic we can only assume was supplied by EPA administrator Stephen Johnson's six-year-old granddaughter, ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Letting the Cataclysm Out of the Bag Supreme Court hears opening arguments in landmark climate-change case		30 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Letting the Cataclysm Out of the Bag Supreme Court hears opening arguments in landmark climate-change case Climate change made its Supreme debut yesterday, as the high court began considering whether the U.S. EPA must regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Much of the opening session concerned whether the plaintiffs, including several green groups and a dozen states, had suffered enough ...
Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The 'uncertainty' agenda Why I'm disappointed with yesterday's Supreme Court hearings	Andrew Dessler	30 Nov 2006	Gristmill

Topics: litigation, US EPA (all these topics)

Oral argument in Mass v. EPA The justices speak	Justin Pidot	29 Nov 2006	Gristmill

Topics: litigation, Massachusetts, US EPA (all these topics)

Mass Appeal Supremes to decide whether EPA can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions		28 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Mass Appeal Supremes to decide whether EPA can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in Massachusetts v. EPA, a humdinger of a case looking at whether the federal government can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The case centers on a Clean Air Act provision that requires regulation of air pollutants that "may reasonably ...
Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on		27 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on Oh, nuclear -- will it ever cease to amaze? As authorities probe the radiation-poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, they've suggested a link to Russia's robust radioactive-materials black market. The market's deals, said an International Atomic Ener ...
Topics: Australia, Harry Reid, Nevada, news, nuclear power, Russia, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

One week until global warming's Supreme Court debut The line-up of legal issues	Justin Pidot	22 Nov 2006	Gristmill

Topics: climate, litigation, Massachusetts, US EPA (all these topics)

And I'll Blow Your Case Down U.S. Supreme Court hears opening arguments in Clean Air Act case		02 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
And I'll Blow Your Case Down U.S. Supreme Court hears opening arguments in Clean Air Act case Fans of respiration held their collective breath yesterday as the Supreme Court began hearing a case about Clean Air Act violations. The case addresses claims by Duke Energy and other companies that the U.S. EPA got lawsuit-happy in the Clinton era, trying to force poor, helpless utilities to add poll ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

You Can't Spell Lobotomy Without 'EPA' As feds close EPA libraries, researchers and others protest		01 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
You Can't Spell Lobotomy Without "EPA" As feds close EPA libraries, researchers and others protest Gagging didn't work, so the feds are trying something new. The U.S. EPA has closed four of its research libraries and cut hours at seven more. The agency says materials will still be available digitally, but many worry that the shift will stymie scientists seeking data on, say, the 1,700 potentially hazardous chemicals introduced each y ...
Topics: news, US EPA (all these topics)

A Refine Mess Bush admin plans to relax air-pollution regulations on ethanol refineries		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
A Refine Mess Bush admin plans to relax air-pollution regulations on ethanol refineries President Bush has been hyping the environmental benefits of ethanol in recent months, even as his administration has been preparing to relax air-pollution regulations for new ethanol refineries. The U.S. EPA plans to increase the amount of toxic pollution refineries can emit -- from 100 tons a year to 250 tons -- before they are required to ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Nothing Could Prius Away Toyota Prius tops EPA's list of most fuel-efficient cars for 2007		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing Could Prius Away Toyota Prius tops EPA's list of most fuel-efficient cars for 2007 Yesterday, the U.S. EPA released its 2007 ranking of the most fuel-efficient vehicles, with gas-electric hybrids sweeping the top four spots. The Toyota Prius, ranked No. 1, gets 60 miles per gallon in the city and 51 mpg on the highway, according to the EPA. (Data from real-world driv ...
Topics: electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius, US EPA (all these topics)

Hormones and Groans Endocrine disruptors in everyday products may trigger early puberty		17 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Hormones and Groans Endocrine disruptors in everyday products may trigger early puberty Some doctors worry that children as young as preschool age are facing a higher risk of early-onset puberty -- including breast growth and pubic-hair development -- due to the increasing prevalence of certain cosmetics, prescription drugs, and environmental contaminants containing endocrine disruptors or hormones. In rare cases, clusters of young ch ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides		11 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides W.R. Grace & Co. must pay $54.5 million to remove asbestos-contaminated soil from the mining town of Libby, Mont., the Supreme Court decided yesterday. The U.S. EPA sued the company five years ago to recover cleanup costs; a lower court ruled in the agency's favor an ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining and drilling, Montana, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S.		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S. To protect their citizens from dangerous chemicals, the European Union, Japan, and other nations have tightened their environmental standards for hundreds of manufactured products in recent years. Meanwhile, the U.S. EPA hasn't restricted any industrial compounds since an unsuccessful attempt ...
Topics: China, European Union, Japan, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson Resists Lobbying of Special-Interest 'Science' Groups EPA chief spurns scientific advice, rejects stricter particulate controls		22 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Johnson Resists Lobbying of Special-Interest "Science" Groups EPA chief spurns scientific advice, rejects stricter particulate controls Yesterday, U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson -- rejecting the near-unanimous recommendation of his agency's own scientific advisory council, as well as the pleas of health and environmental advocates -- failed to strengthen the Clean Air Act's standards for maximum annual soot-pa ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Ignorance is Remiss U.S. EPA not conducting environmental-justice reviews		20 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Ignorance is Remiss U.S. EPA not conducting environmental-justice reviews In a sharp break with the rest of the Bush administration's focus -- no, obsession -- with social and economic justice, the U.S. EPA has failed to conduct environmental-justice reviews to make sure low-income and minority neighborhoods get equal eco-protection to other communities. The reviews have been required since 1994, but a survey ...
Topics: environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

I Found My Thrill on News-Bury Hill EPA proposes easing air-pollution rules for oil refineries and other plants		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
I Found My Thrill on News-Bury Hill EPA proposes easing air-pollution rules for oil refineries and other plants The Bush administration EPA has had some trouble with the whole protecting-the-environment thing, but it has mastered one important skill: burying news. Latest exhibit: On Friday, just before a weekend that everyone knew would be saturated with 9/11 remembrances, the EPA proposed easing air-pollution requirements for ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Nothing to Fear But Air Itself Government fails to tend to the many left sick by the 9/11 attacks		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing to Fear But Air Itself Government fails to tend to the many left sick by the 9/11 attacks The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left behind a grim legacy. No, we're not talking about the violent imperial fantasies and paranoia that have gripped much of the nation, but the lingering ill health of those who worked in lower Manhattan to find survivors and clean up the rubble. New research shows that 69 percent of worke ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Just Around the Blend EPA proposes Renewable Fuels Standard; biofuel firms get excited		08 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Just Around the Blend EPA proposes Renewable Fuels Standard; biofuel firms get excited The U.S. EPA proposed renewable-fuel rules yesterday to comply with the 2005 energy bill, which requires that U.S. biofuel production nearly double by 2012. The suggested Renewable Fuels Standard (which will be open to public comment) would require that 3.71 percent of all U.S. gasoline sold next year be biofuels, up from 2.78 percent this ...
Topics: news, renewable energy, US EPA (all these topics)

Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust A U.S. EPA whistleblower has gone public with accusations that the agency downplayed the health hazards of dust from the collapsed World Trade Center. EPA senior scientist Cate Jenkins -- who has long clashed with her employer -- says the agency relied on misleading test reports in 2002 and 2003. A few months after 9/11, ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Stop Us If You've Heard This One EPA must consult wildlife officials about pesticide use		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Stop Us If You've Heard This One EPA must consult wildlife officials about pesticide use Yesterday a federal judge overturned a two-year-old regulation that allowed the U.S. EPA to approve pesticides without consulting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about toxic impact on rare animals and plants. Ruling in favor of nine environmental groups, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenor declared th ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls Imagine that gavel sound from Law & Order, and here we go: In 1999, the U.S. EPA sued Cinergy Corp. for modifying several coal-fueled power plants without following Clean Air Act pollution-control requirements. (Moment of silence for the days when eco-laws were enforced.) One month before Pre ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Grass is Always Meaner on the Other Side Genetically modified grass found in the wild		16 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Grass is Always Meaner on the Other Side Genetically modified grass found in the wild In what could be the first confirmed instance of a genetically modified plant growing outside a farm in the U.S., EPA ecologists have found an unapproved type of GM grass in the wild in central Oregon. The EPA said the creeping bentgrass (could it sound more evil?), being developed by Scotts Miracle-Gro and Monsanto to be resistan ...
Topics: GMOs, Hawaii, news, Oregon, US EPA (all these topics)

Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you Recently, researchers discovered they'd been a little off in their estimates of how much smog-forming pollution diesel locomotives generate. How off? Turns out by 2030 the trains will be producing about twice what was previously estimated -- 800,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 25,000 tons of soot, according ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

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