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Headline	Author	Published	Section
For Specious Skies EPA plans to loosen air-quality rules near national parks		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:45 AM on 16 May 2008 Photo: Wolfgang Staudt Call us crazy, but rewriting the Clean Air Act to ease the way for new coal plants near national parks seems to fly in the face of that whole "clean air" thing. But sure enough, the U.S. EPA plans to make a change allowing the government to calculate the average annual emissions of power plants near parks and wilderness areas, instead of tracking (and po ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, jackassery, national parks, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson's nuts Analysis of the EPA's decision to deny California's waiver	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned below, today the U.S. EPA denied California's request for a waiver exempting it from federal fuel economy standards, allowing it to implement its own standards. EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced the decision in a rushed press conference following President Bush's signing of the energy bill. The announcement came with a veritable torrent of dishonest spin. Let me try to disentangle some of it. 1. Johnson leaned heavily on today's passage of t ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA, California, climate, energy (all these topics)

Breaking: EPA announcing ruling on California waiver at 6:30 Eastern	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The EPA just sent out an email advisory saying that Administrator Stephen Johnson will announce the agency's decision on the California air standards waiver ... in about 30 minutes. (Background on the waiver issue here, here, and here.) The lack of lead time might lead one to believe that they want to bury this news. Which might lead one to believe that they're going to deny California the waiver. Boxer and Waxman have both said they expect that outcome. That would ...
Topics: US EPA, air pollution, politics, California, energy, climate (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)

Just Breathe Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S.	Kathryn Schulz	17 Jun 2005	Counter Culture
14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the 'hot spots' they'll create		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the "hot spots" they'll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency's recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a "cap and trade" system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable threat to publi ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'Reduces' Pollution by Measuring It Differently		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, mining and drilling, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, 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)

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)

Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You Top EPA Enforcers Abandon the Agency		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy. The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, Midwest, nuclear power, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Drop and Give Me 50 States Fight Back Against EPA Decision to Drop Power Plant Cases		07 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Drop and Give Me 50 States Fight Back Against EPA Decision to Drop Power Plant Cases It didn't take long for the backlash to set in against the U.S. EPA's decision, announced Wednesday, to abandon its investigations into 50 polluting power plants in the face of the Bush administration's rollback of the Clean Air Act's New Source Review rules. One day later, Democratic senators and attorneys general from Northeaster ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Promises, Promises, You Knew You'd Never Keep Breaking Promise, EPA Will Drop Cases Against Polluting Power Plants		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Promises, Promises, You Knew You'd Never Keep Breaking Promise, EPA Will Drop Cases Against Polluting Power Plants The U.S. EPA announced yesterday that it will drop investigations into 50 power plants accused of violating the federal Clean Air Act. Enviros and agency watchdogs warned about the possibility of such a shift when the Bush administration rolled back the act's New Source Review rules -- but agency offic ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Airing Out the Dirty Laundry EPA Official Knew Rule Change Could Hurt Enforcement, GAO Says		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Airing Out the Dirty Laundry EPA Official Knew Rule Change Could Hurt Enforcement, GAO Says The top air-quality official at the U.S. EPA was warned repeatedly by agency staffers that changes to the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act could undermine enforcement actions against polluting industrial plants, a General Accounting Office report found last week. But still the official, Assistant EPA Administrato ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

American Idle Who needs Superfund when we've got reality TV?	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	19 Jun 2003	Soapbox
By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA's Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million barely affords a study just to figure out how to clean up one of the 1,200 deserted dumps wasting away in American communities. Money's tight to fund cleanups of Superfund sites like this one in Pennsylvania. Photo ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

New Source, Same Old Crap		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
New Source, Same Old Crap In the most far-reaching move to relax air pollution rules in years, the Bush administration on Friday gave refineries new flexibility to upgrade their facilities without having to reduce emissions. The U.S. EPA also outlined proposals that would give aging coal-fired power plants a similar advantage - ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

On a Roll Back		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
On a Roll Back Turning up the heat on Republicans in the final weeks before the U.S. elections, Democrats and environmentalists are requesting documents from the U.S. EPA detailing the Bush administration's effort to roll back clean-air regulations on older coal-fired power plants and refineries. But EPA officials have refused to pony up the evidence, and Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chair of the Se ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, 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)

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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