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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Air Strike EPA plan would give political officials more say over air-quality standards	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Who should decide what level of air pollution is safe -- scientists or political appointees? Plume and doom. Photo: iStockphoto. A counterintuitive answer came from top officials at the U.S. EPA last week. Bill Wehrum and George Gray, EPA's highest-ranking air and science officials, respectively, issued recommendations that some enviros and agency staffers fear could curtai ...
Topics: air pollution, John Dingell, Muckraker, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

So Three Judges Walk Into a Car ... Appeals court rules EPA doesn't have to regulate CO2 emissions from cars	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Jul 2005	Muckraker
It's a simple but powerful question: Does the U.S. EPA have the power -- and the obligation -- to regulate carbon dioxide as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act? Strangely, it still remains partially unanswered, even though it was a central issue in a landmark court case decided on Friday. Spew away, appeals court says. In a major legal victory fo ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Let Us Now Praise Innocuous Men Bush EPA nominee Steve Johnson garners praise and sympathy	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Mar 2005	Muckraker
Stephen Johnson. Photo: Energy Star. The next chief of the Bush EPA wasn't expected to have more than a dewdrop's chance in hell of widespread acceptance in the disgruntled environmental community. So it came as a surprise on Friday when the president tapped respected scientist and 24-year EPA veteran Stephen Johnson to captain the agency, and an array of green leaders ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Big To-Doo-Doo EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Jan 2005	Muckraker
On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. Factory farms may be getting off easy, but not so the c ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Big Ag, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lax on, Lax off Bush appointee charges that EPA tried to thwart lawsuits against polluting power plants	Amanda Griscom Little	02 Nov 2004	Muckraker
It scarcely raises an eyebrow nowadays when the Bush administration's environmental record is characterized, yet again, as a relentless attack on decades of protections for air, water, and wildlife. But the latest such charges come from a loyal soldier of the GOP, appointed by the Bushies to head up the enforcement office of the U.S. EPA, so they carry mor ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Premature Ululation Reports of pending EPA enforcement actions are, shall we say, premature	Amanda Griscom	20 Jul 2004	Muckraker
Is this power plant in trouble? Nah. Photo: USGS. What's this on the wires? The U.S. EPA is gearing up to prosecute a new batch of new-source review (NSR) cases against polluting power plants? Could it be that the Bushies have suddenly taken a keen interest in enforcing a Clean Air Act rule that they have gone to great lengths to weaken? Not really. The story goes like ...
Topics: air pollution, business, litigation, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Fowl Play Factory farms get off easy on air pollution	Amanda Griscom	19 May 2004	Muckraker
What do the National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation, United Egg Producers, and Tyson Foods have in common? Crying fowl. Photo: USDA. Well, first there's the obvious fowl connection. Then there's the foul connection: Their facilities, known as "concentrated animal feeding operations" (CAFOs), have growing air-pollution problems thanks to the mountains of gas-emitting excrement deposited ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, business, food, health, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Syzygy Whiz A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Bush's much-praised new diesel rules	Amanda Griscom	13 May 2004	Muckraker
Yes, dear skeptics, you heard correctly: The Bush administration done good this week. Digging these new rules. Landmark controls on diesel emissions, finalized Tuesday by the U.S. EPA, are expected to prevent 12,000 premature deaths and 15,000 heart attacks each year. And these were no warmed-over regs from the Clinton era, passed off as the Bushies' own, as was the case wi ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, oil, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'reduces' pollution by measuring it differently	Amanda Griscom	19 Feb 2004	Muckraker
North Dakota "reduces" pollution by measuring it differently By Amanda Griscom 19 Feb 2004 From Badlands to worse. Photo: NPS. To Theodore Roosevelt, a man who battled chronic asthma, the remote Badlands of North Dakota were as beloved for their fresh air as for their dramatic views and big game. "Wildflowers and sagebrush spiced the clean, dry North Dakotan breeze. Roosevelt's asthmatic lungs rejoiced in this air, as did his soul in the sheer ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, North Dakota, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Co-op Cop-Out Token enforcement of Clean Air Act provision smacks of political opportunism	Amanda Griscom	04 Feb 2004	Muckraker
This election year, U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt is playing the part of a Clean Air Act tough guy. Leavitt, left, with Bush, is acting tough. Photo: White House. For three years, the Bush administration and the power industry have been happily entangled in a session of mutual back-scratching -- utilities have been generous contributors to Bush and his Republican cohorts, and th ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire	Amanda Griscom	28 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Splitting Airs Bush's latest clean-air proposals are better than nothing, but how much better?	Amanda Griscom	10 Dec 2003	Muckraker
Who let the smog out? Photo: EPA "I hate it that we're always complaining," said Eric Schaeffer, a former senior enforcement official at the U.S. EPA who resigned in 2002 to protest the Bush administration's poor record on nabbing polluters. "So, looking on the bright side, I suppose you could call this better than nothing." Schaeffer was referring to r ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Monroe Spin Doctorin' Bush pushes his Clear Skies plan -- and his electoral prospects -- at a notoriously dirty power plant	Amanda Griscom	17 Sep 2003	Muckraker
Bush talks to the masses in Michigan. Photo: White House. When President Bush set out on Monday to defend his recent New Source Review rollback and promote his energy bill and Clear Skies program, it was hard not to notice the peculiar setting he chose. Wearing a hardhat and safety glasses, the commander in chief mingled with a crowd of begoggl ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Michigan, Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Whittled Away Read U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman's letter of resignation		21 May 2003	Muckraker
Christine Todd Whitman sent the following communication to all U.S. EPA employees on May 21, 2003, the day after she resigned her post as EPA administrator. The communication includes her letter of resignation to President Bush, dated May 20, 2003. To All EPA Employees: Yesterday afternoon, I met with President Bush at the White House and tendered to him my resignation as Administrator of the EPA, ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Phantom Menace?	Ben White	20 May 1999	Muckraker
Last week brought an end to the remarkable run of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who announced his intention to leave Washington and turn the reins of the federal treasury over to his well-groomed deputy, Lawrence Summers, known affectionately to some enviro insiders as Darth Vader. Although Wall Street may be comfortable with Summers, environmentalists are not. Lawrence Summers, Dark Lord of the Sith In 1991, while at the World Bank, Summers signed ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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