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If the Leaders Lead, the Lead Standards Will Follow
U.S. EPA to tighten standard for airborne lead |
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02 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:24 AM on 02 May 2008 Compelled by court order to review its 30-year-old standards for airborne lead, the U.S. EPA proposed a new, tougher standard this week that would cut allowable lead levels by over 90 percent. True to form, though, the agency proposed a range of standards that exceeded the maximum limit of what its scientific advisers recommended as necessary to protect public heal ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Ghostwriter in the Machine
More language in proposed mercury regs found to echo industry memos |
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22 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Ghostwriter in the Machine More language in proposed mercury regs found to echo industry memos Language in the Bush administration's proposed mercury regulations has been found to almost precisely mirror passages in memos written by a law firm representing coal-fired power plants. No, we're not rerunning a story from months ago -- it's happened again. For those of you following along at home, this is the thi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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