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A Refine Mess Bush admin plans to relax air-pollution regulations on ethanol refineries		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
A Refine Mess Bush admin plans to relax air-pollution regulations on ethanol refineries President Bush has been hyping the environmental benefits of ethanol in recent months, even as his administration has been preparing to relax air-pollution regulations for new ethanol refineries. The U.S. EPA plans to increase the amount of toxic pollution refineries can emit -- from 100 tons a year to 250 tons -- before they are required to ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson Resists Lobbying of Special-Interest 'Science' Groups EPA chief spurns scientific advice, rejects stricter particulate controls		22 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Johnson Resists Lobbying of Special-Interest "Science" Groups EPA chief spurns scientific advice, rejects stricter particulate controls Yesterday, U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson -- rejecting the near-unanimous recommendation of his agency's own scientific advisory council, as well as the pleas of health and environmental advocates -- failed to strengthen the Clean Air Act's standards for maximum annual soot-pa ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

I Found My Thrill on News-Bury Hill EPA proposes easing air-pollution rules for oil refineries and other plants		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
I Found My Thrill on News-Bury Hill EPA proposes easing air-pollution rules for oil refineries and other plants The Bush administration EPA has had some trouble with the whole protecting-the-environment thing, but it has mastered one important skill: burying news. Latest exhibit: On Friday, just before a weekend that everyone knew would be saturated with 9/11 remembrances, the EPA proposed easing air-pollution requirements for ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Nothing to Fear But Air Itself Government fails to tend to the many left sick by the 9/11 attacks		11 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing to Fear But Air Itself Government fails to tend to the many left sick by the 9/11 attacks The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left behind a grim legacy. No, we're not talking about the violent imperial fantasies and paranoia that have gripped much of the nation, but the lingering ill health of those who worked in lower Manhattan to find survivors and clean up the rubble. New research shows that 69 percent of worke ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Teach Your Children Well On toxic schools	Umbra Fisk	30 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My four-year-old daughter is attending a brand-new preschool program in a brand-new building this fall. Nothing was missed in setting up the school for the best possible education for young minds. Unfortunately, it's filled with all those toxic "new" smells. When we toured the building, I developed a headache within five minutes. Are there any known mitigators for those already-installed toxic smells, like ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, education, toxics (all these topics)

A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water Frustrated by federal inaction, states and localities are increasingly suing companies and even each other in attempts to curb air and water pollution. Oklahoma, for instance, has filed suit against eight companies that operate chicken farms in neighboring Arkansas, cha ...
Topics: air pollution, Arkansas, environmental justice, Kentucky, news, Oklahoma, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Wrong as Rain Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Wrong as Rain Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong One-third of China's landmass was hit with acid rain last year, according to a government report, posing a grave threat to soil health and food safety. Fast-growing China is the world leader in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide emissions, which rose 27 percent in the country from 2000 to 2005; coal-burning factories and power plants are largely to blame. B ...
Topics: air pollution, China, news, toxics (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)

Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough? Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you Recently, researchers discovered they'd been a little off in their estimates of how much smog-forming pollution diesel locomotives generate. How off? Turns out by 2030 the trains will be producing about twice what was previously estimated -- 800,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 25,000 tons of soot, according ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Midnight Run On running and pollutants		07 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
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Topics: air pollution (all these topics)

Midnight Run On running and pollutants	Umbra Fisk	07 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am a runner, and in the summertime it is difficult for me to run during the day because of the heat. Unfortunately, it's a no-no for me to run in green spaces late at night because they are dark, deserted, and thus quite unsafe. So this leaves me the option of running in busy areas of the city after the sun has gone down. At these hours, the traffic is usually light, which makes for a more pleasant run -- but I'm wond ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, sports (all these topics)

Friedman At Last, Friedman At Last Federal judge whacks EPA for foot-dragging on toxic air pollution		04 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Friedman At Last, Friedman At Last Federal judge whacks EPA for foot-dragging on toxic air pollution This week, a federal judge administered a well-placed kick to the rear end of the U.S. EPA, blasting the agency for being "grossly delinquent" in regulating air pollutants as required by the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. While EPA has developed emissions regulations for only 15 of the 70 industries covered under the a ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

The Air of Their Ways EPA falling short on clean-air protection, GAO says		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
The Air of Their Ways EPA falling short on clean-air protection, GAO says The Government Accountability Office is on the U.S. EPA's case again, reporting that the agency has, and we quote, "not reduced human health risks from air toxics to the extent and in the time frames envisioned in the [Clean Air] Act." The EPA has largely failed to regulate pollution from small sources like dry cleaners and trucks, says the GAO; ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

What's Up, Dock? San Francisco aims to provide plug-in power to docked cruise ships		12 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
What's Up, Dock? San Francisco aims to provide plug-in power to docked cruise ships As San Francisco completes a new cruise-ship terminal, it plans also to build a facility to provide electric power to docked ships. Shoreside power -- in effect, extension cords that plug idling ships into hydro- and solar-generated electricity -- could reduce harmful emissions from the ships by up to 80 percent, said San Fra ...
Topics: air pollution, California, news, San Francisco (all these topics)

A Lawn Time Coming EPA may implement California small-motor standards across U.S.		30 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
A Lawn Time Coming EPA may implement California small-motor standards across U.S. The U.S. EPA indicated yesterday that it was leaning toward approving California's proposal to require catalytic converters on small motors like those in weed whackers and lawn mowers, eliminating the equivalent of emissions from 800,000 cars. Even better, the agency suggested it may implement the high standards across the country. &q ...
Topics: air pollution, California, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming		30 May 2006	Daily Grist
Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming California is trailblazing again: It aims to be the first state in the U.S. to tackle air pollution from pesticide use. State officials hope to eliminate tons (literally) of smog-forming gases that waft from pesticide-treated agricultural regions. California's Department of Pesticide Regulation -- long acc ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development		24 May 2006	Daily Grist
Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development Thousands of miles of new pipelines and power lines could soon snake through national parks, national forests, and other public lands in the West. The energy bill signed into law last year called on federal agencies to speed up approval of new energy corridors by putting them under a single, overarching environmental review instead of ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, news (all these topics)

Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2 Ten states have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. EPA over what has become a central point of contention between the feds and ... people who have to live on the planet for the next 50 years: whether or not the agency has the authority to regulate planet-warming carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Plaintiffs -- who've been joined by two cities and three gree ...
Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Moderately Bueno! Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Moderately Bueno! Mexico City air is a little better than it used to be Two decades ago, Mexico City's air was widely deemed the worst on the planet. Today, while the city of 20 million is still one of the world's most polluted, it's no longer top dog. (Several cities in China now dominate the charts.) A concerted effort to clear the Mexican capital's air led to the dismantling of a major oil refinery in 1991, the phaseout of l ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, news (all these topics)

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)

Fuel Me Once ... Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks		07 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Fuel Me Once ... Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks In a new lawsuit, the Center for Biological Diversity has charged the Bush administration with violating the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which requires the feds to regularly update fuel-economy standards to the "maximum feasible level." With currently available technologies, light trucks could readily achi ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules? Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution		04 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules? Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution The U.S. EPA is considering a regulatory change that could massively increase air pollution -- which is really its job, when you think about it. Currently, oil refineries, chemical factories, and other operations that emit more than 25 tons of toxics into the air a year must apply best available pollution-control technologies; emissions then typ ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics)

L.A. Story A virtual walking tour through an L.A. neighborhood with activists from Pacoima Beautiful		31 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. �� Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. The tiny community of Pacoima, at the north end of Los Angeles, suffers from nearly every imaginable obstacle to a healthy urban environment. That means, for starters, lead paint, freeway traffic, airports, landfills, diesel trucks, chemical manufacturing, power plants, heavy industry, an ...
Topics: air pollution, California, education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

I Can Feel It Cleaning in the Air Tonight Clean up air and death rate drops, study finds		21 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
I Can Feel It Cleaning in the Air Tonight Clean up air and death rate drops, study finds Ah, science. It never fails to dazzle and delight. Consider this wildly counterintuitive result: When air pollution falls in a city, fewer people in that city die. Jump back! In a new study, researchers tracked particulate pollution concentrations in six U.S. metropolitan areas from 1974 through 1998, along with the health of 8,096 residents. Each d ...
Topics: air pollution, news (all these topics)

The Humpty Dance Bush attempts to weaken Clean Air Act are illegal, court rules		20 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
The Humpty Dance Bush attempts to weaken Clean Air Act are illegal, court rules Americans who breathe scored a big victory on Friday, when a federal appeals court declared illegal the Bush administration's long-running effort to undermine pollution rules for coal-fired power plants and other pollution-belching industrial facilities. Judge Judith Rogers, writing for the court, castigated the U.S. EPA for trying to red ...
Topics: air pollution, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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