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 Stories About: air pollution AND energy AND politics AND United States AND US EPA
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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On a Roll Back
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Dozing Off
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Slim Pickins, Whitman
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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