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Yazoo Keeper EPA puts kibosh on wetland-destructive Army Corps project		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:14 PM on 02 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA has vetoed a giant, expensive plan to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi River delta. The so-called Yazoo Pump flood-control project would have sucked 6 million gallons of water a minute from 67,000 acres of wetlands along the Yazoo River. The scheme, proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and first authorized by Congress in 1941, would have cost $220 m ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat protection, Mississippi River, news, placemaking, progress, US EPA, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

If It's Broke, Fix It EPA announces new lead standards for renovation of older buildings		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:04 PM on 31 Mar 2008 Contractors will have to train workers to follow "lead-safe work practice standards" when renovating or repairing older dwellings that house children or pregnant women, according to new standards introduced Monday by the U.S. EPA. The new requirements are an attempt to keep lead out of the bloodstreams of babes, as structures built before 1978 are likely to contain ...
Topics: green building, green living, health, news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sixty-Two and You U.S. EPA places limits on carcinogenic benzene in gasoline		12 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Sixty-Two and You U.S. EPA places limits on carcinogenic benzene in gasoline Late last week, the U.S. EPA announced a new rule that will affect most Americans' gas tanks. The Mobile Source Air Toxics rule -- or as we like to call it, the Your Car is Full of Crap rule -- limits benzene, a carcinogen that makes up about 1 percent of current gasoline mixes but poses a whopping health threat. Beginning in 2011, refiners will ...
Topics: news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mileage in Mirror Is Smaller Than It Appears U.S. EPA revises vehicle mileage formula for 2008 and beyond		12 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Mileage in Mirror Is Smaller Than It Appears U.S. EPA revises vehicle mileage formula for 2008 and beyond Wondering why your Escalade gets eight miles to the gallon, not the 11 that was advertised? U.S. EPA to the rescue! In a move reflecting "real-world numbers," the agency has revised the way it crunches mileage numbers for the first time since 1984. The new formula -- ordered by Congress last year and debuting with 2 ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Nothing Could Prius Away Toyota Prius tops EPA's list of most fuel-efficient cars for 2007		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing Could Prius Away Toyota Prius tops EPA's list of most fuel-efficient cars for 2007 Yesterday, the U.S. EPA released its 2007 ranking of the most fuel-efficient vehicles, with gas-electric hybrids sweeping the top four spots. The Toyota Prius, ranked No. 1, gets 60 miles per gallon in the city and 51 mpg on the highway, according to the EPA. (Data from real-world driv ...
Topics: electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius, 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)

Switch Getters Industries pull the switch on mercury switches		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Switch Getters Industries pull the switch on mercury switches The steel and auto industries have agreed to pay $2 million each to remove mercury-containing light switches from millions of scrapyard-bound vehicles. The deal will reduce U.S. annual mercury pollution by at least 5 percent over the next 15 years, according to U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson. Bully for the U.S., but a wash for the planet: the mercury will be r ...
Topics: news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Unimpressive at Any Speed Average fuel economy of U.S. vehicles no better than last year		18 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Unimpressive at Any Speed Average fuel economy of U.S. vehicles no better than last year The average fuel economy of 2006 model-year vehicles in the U.S. is a guzzle-rific 21 miles per gallon, the U.S. EPA announced yesterday -- the same as in 2005. (And 1994. And 1982.) SUV fuel economy rose from 18.3 to 18.5 mpg from model year 2005 to 2006, a benefit canceled out by a passenger-car fuel-economy ...
Topics: cars, fuel efficiency, news, placemaking, Prius, US EPA (all these topics)

Nice Package UPS will test new hydraulic hybrid trucks		27 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Nice Package UPS will test new hydraulic hybrid trucks If you thought the muscled deliveryfolk in tight brown shorts were hot, wait 'til you get a load of their trucks. UPS drivers in Detroit will be testing new hybrid delivery trucks developed by the U.S. EPA, which the agency claims will boost fuel efficiency up to 70 percent in stop-and-go traffic. The "hydraulic hybrid" trucks -- also intriguing to ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030		02 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030 The Bush administration delighted enviros yesterday (yes, we just wrote that) by unveiling long-awaited proposals to cut toxic tailpipe emissions. Of course, it took a lawsuit to get the plan released, but why look a gift regulation in the mouth? According to the U.S. EPA, the proposed rules would cut benzene e ...
Topics: news, placemaking, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Green Mileage Mileage estimates likely to decline under EPA's proposed new system		11 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Green Mileage Mileage estimates likely to decline under EPA's proposed new system The U.S. EPA has proposed new standards for calculating auto fuel-economy ratings, expected to reduce by 5 to 30 percent the mileage estimates in window stickers on new cars and trucks. Ouch. It's the first ratings overhaul since 1985, intended to reflect changes in driving conditions (e.g., ...
Topics: cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, politics, Prius, US EPA (all these topics)

Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah! Car mileage testing will catch up with reality, EPA declares		21 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Yeah! Car mileage testing will catch up with reality, EPA declares After years of criticism from greens and independent testing groups, the U.S. EPA announced on Friday that its rules for testing automobile fuel economy will finally be updated and revised. New standards should be in place for testing 2008 model year cars. It's a move long opposed by the automobile industry, since the revisions could decrease ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Off by a Mileage EPA to revise tests of new cars' gas mileage		19 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Off by a Mileage EPA to revise tests of new cars' gas mileage The U.S. EPA has announced plans to overhaul its current method for estimating the fuel economy of new automobiles -- the miles-per-gallon numbers stuck on the windows of every new car. The method now in use has changed little since the mid-1970s, even though driving conditions have changed substantially -- including more traffic, higher highway speeds, and the prolife ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Gas-Muzzler EPA holds back negative report on U.S. auto fuel efficiency		28 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Gas-Muzzler EPA holds back negative report on U.S. auto fuel efficiency According to a report not released Wednesday by the U.S. EPA, loopholes in U.S. fuel-economy standards let automakers produce cars and trucks much less fuel-efficient than models 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the same day the long-debated energy bill emerged from congressional negotiations, EPA opted to keep the report to itself for another week. An agen ...
Topics: energy, news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Highway Just Met a Girl Named Maria Provision in highway bill would require gas-mileage reality check		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
Highway Just Met a Girl Named Maria Provision in highway bill would require gas-mileage reality check The U.S. EPA would have to use more realistic conditions when testing new vehicle models for gas-mileage figures under an amendment offered by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), backed by green and consumer groups, and successfully attached to the Senate highway bill. Currently, the agency's methods include evaluating vehicles at an ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

AAA for Effort Legislation would force EPA to get realistic about fuel-efficiency stats		03 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
AAA for Effort Legislation would force EPA to get realistic about fuel-efficiency stats A bill debuting in Congress today would require the U.S. EPA to revamp its gas-mileage tests to more accurately reflect real-world driving conditions. Currently the EPA determines mileage ratings for vehicles by using 30-year-old tests that allow vehicle engines to get warm, never push the speed above 60 mph, never run the air conditioning, a ...
Topics: news, placemaking, US EPA (all these topics)

Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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