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Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Errorism New Report Charges Bush Administration with Neglecting 9/11 Air Safety The Bush administration showed "reckless disregard" for public safety after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by failing to warn New Yorkers about the dangers of breathing the polluted air around the Twin Towers site, says a new Sierra Club report. According to the report: The Bush administration failed to warn the public abou ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs Environmental Defense is pushing the U.S. EPA to increase the pollution reductions it is set to impose on power companies in December. If the agency required industry to invest a minimum of up to 50 percent more -- for a total of $72 billion -- 3,000 additional lives would be saved and 140,000 additional children would avoid asth ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, United States, 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)

Involuntarism Study finds mandatory caps work better than voluntary programs to limit pollution	Amanda Griscom	21 Apr 2004	Muckraker
Smokestacking the deck? Photo: USGS. This just in, from the Department of Near-Tautologies: Mandatory emissions caps rein in power-plant pollution more effectively than voluntary programs. That's the conclusion being drawn from a report on the environmental records of the 100 largest electricity companies in the U.S., released last week by an alliance of bottom-liners ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Keep on Truckin' Taxpayers could get stuck with tab for new diesel rules	Amanda Griscom	13 Apr 2004	Muckraker
When the Bush administration wants to gin up some environmental cred, it cites efforts underway to slash diesel emissions by requiring trucking companies to switch to cleaner engines. But the untold story is that it may be the taxpayers -- not the polluters -- who end up footing much of the bill. Big Mac attack. Photo: U.S. House. The trucking industry has long been a leading opponent of federa ...
Topics: air pollution, Government Accountability Office, Muckraker, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds		15 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds Efforts by U.S. states in the northeast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are falling short, in part due to unsympathetic federal policies. While they see plenty of room for more aggressive efforts, even the region's most vocal environmental critics acknowledge that northeastern states have taken unprecedented steps to reduce emissio ...
Topics: air pollution, Northeast, ozone, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations		12 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations If automakers do not agree to improve the fuel efficiency of cars sold in Canada by 25 percent by 2010, the country will consider adopting California's new law curbing carbon-dioxide emissions from automobiles, said Canada's environment minister in a speech yesterday. Canada, unlike the U.S., signed the Kyoto Protocol in 20 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Canada, ozone (all these topics)

Dust Busted Manhattanites Sue EPA Over Mishandling of Enviro Hazards from Sept. 11		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Dust Busted Manhattanites Sue EPA Over Mishandling of Enviro Hazards from Sept. 11 The U.S. EPA mishandled the environmental hazards caused by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and put thousands of New Yorkers at risk, charges a class action lawsuit filed by 12 lower Manhattan workers and residents yesterday in U.S. District Court. The suit claims the EPA submitted to political pressure to return the area to &q ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, US EPA (all these topics)

Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient Federal standards governing emissions from garbage incinerators are inadequate and must be rewritten by the U.S. EPA, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday. The controversy over incineration emissions began in the 1980s, when garba ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report Australia's Great Barrier Reef -- the world's largest chain of living coral and one of the seven wonders of the natural world -- will be almost completely destroyed by rising sea temperatures by 2050, predicts a new report released by Queensland University's Center for Marine Studies. "Coral c ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, international government agencies, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

CAFE Au Lait Bush plan to overhaul CAFE standards is a mixed bag	Amanda Griscom	20 Feb 2004	Powers That Be
Clean up the bus, gus. Photo: NREL. The Bush administration has taken to singing the clean-car gospel lately, but it's not quite hitting all the notes. Last month, U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt joined Detroit kingpins in a splashy D.C. conference to trumpet the arrival of new vehicles and fuels that reduce sulfur emissions -- a notable achievement, but what Leavitt was passing off as a Bush administratio ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, fuel efficiency, placemaking, politics, United States (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)

The Homeland is (Cough) Secure (Cough)	Suzy Becker	17 Feb 2004	Ha.

Topics: air pollution, health, politics (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates Asthma rates are climbing around the world, and though scientists can't say precisely what's causing the increase, pollution is thought to be a serious contributor. The respiratory disease has become a particular problem in Asia, where terrible air quality, rapid u ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, China, health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution Most state environmental officials expect that changes to Clean Air Act rules proposed by the Bush administration would lead to higher air pollution, according to a survey conducted by the General Accounting Office upon the request of Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.). The survey gathe ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Nano, Nano		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nano, Nano A new paint set to go on sale in Europe in March promises to absorb the most noxious gases from automobile exhaust. Invented by British company Millennium Chemicals, Ecopaint contains spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, suspended in a base of polysiloxane (a silicon-based polymer). Hey, wake up, the good part ...
Topics: air pollution, England, European Union, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Morose Code		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Morose Code In a move that should mean cleaner air for Washington, D.C., a federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. EPA's decision to accept a D.C.-area proposal to delay enforcement of Clean Air Act-mandated pollution levels for several years past the act's 1999 deadline. The area was classified as being in "severe" violation of federal ozone ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Washington DC (all these topics)

Co-op Cop-out		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, 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)

Smoke Signals		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Smoke Signals Activists fighting against climate change could learn much from the tactics of anti-smoking campaigners, argues Audrey Schulman in our Soapbox section. The tobacco war has been fought on many fronts, but perhaps the most important was the concerted publicity campaign that changed the images people associate with smoking. It's no longer romantic, no longer "cool." ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, green living, health (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Different In sharp contrast to the recently released Bush administration budget, Canada's Liberal Party government on Monday promised to double spending on contaminated-site cleanups, promote green technologies to increase energy efficiency, and go beyond the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in curtailing emissions. Over 10 years, $4 billion ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

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