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Trash of the Titans EPA, U.S. lax on e-waste regulation, GAO says		17 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 8:13 AM on 17 Sep 2008 A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office paints a bleak picture of electronic-waste practices in the United States and condemns the U.S. EPA for its lax enforcement of a new national e-waste law. E-waste often contains toxics like cadmium, lead, and mercury, which can leach out of computers, TVs, and other electronics once they're in the landfill. And even when e-waste is reclaime ...
Topics: e-waste, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Life's a Beach and Then It's Closed EPA to update health-hazard reporting standards for U.S. beaches		11 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 AM on 11 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA has agreed to update its 22-year-old criteria for reporting beach-related health hazards to the public thanks to a new settlement with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Right now, the EPA's criteria for assessing ocean-water and beach health are based on the likelihood of beachgoers contracting gastrointestinal illnesses, but apparently that's j ...
Topics: litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking a Standard U.S. EPA criticizes DOT over fuel-economy standards		03 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 7:20 AM on 03 Sep 2008 Officials at the U.S. EPA have criticized their counterparts at the U.S. Transportation Department lately over the DOT's proposed fuel-economy standards for vehicles of 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015. The EPA has said the DOT used an unreasonably low figure for future gasoline prices -- $2.42 a gallon in 2016 and a high of $3.37 a gallon -- which skewed the final cost-benefit figures in favor o ...
Topics: cars, Department of Transportation, energy, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

America's Next Top Priority? Obama would make cap-and-trade program a top economic priority		26 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:37 PM on 26 Aug 2008 Photo: barackobama.com Setting up a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions would be one of Barack Obama's top economic priorities if he were elected president, right up there with a new health-care system, The Wall Street Journal reports. As part of an effort to cut emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, Obama would auction off pollution permits, rais ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hutto you know? Cheney aide poised to head key division of Department of Energy	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post reports today that F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is likely to be appointed as a key official at the Energy Department. Hutto has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration. A promotion to assistant secretary for policy and international affairs would put him in charge of the department's policies on climate change. The DOE website says the assistant secretary serves as ' ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Dick Cheney, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson stands up for himself EPA administrator says he's not pulling out	Kate Sheppard	07 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On a press call today, a reporter asked EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson if he plans to resign from his post, as four Democratic senators and some enviros have called on him to do. 'If you want to talk about that you're more than happy to talk to ... our press officer. But no, I'm not,' responded Johnson. Then the press call abruptly ended.
Topics: Muckraker, news, politics, Stephen Johnson, US EPA (all these topics)

Run-Aground Sue States, green groups to sue EPA for not regulating plane or ship emissions		31 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:50 AM on 31 Jul 2008 Two separate coalitions of states, environmental groups, and state and local pollution regulators announced Thursday their respective intents to sue the U.S. EPA over its failure to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from ships and planes; the group of states and pollution regulators is also suing over emissions from agricultural and construction equipment. The states, agen ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Coy Story EPA staffers told not to talk to media, inspector general, or anyone else		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:12 AM on 29 Jul 2008 Staffers at the U.S. EPA's office of enforcement were instructed recently not to talk to anyone from the media, the Government Accountability Office, or the EPA's own inspector general's office in an email from a top EPA official. "If you are contacted directly by the IG's office or GAO requesting information of any kind ... please do not respond to questions or make any sta ...
Topics: dumbassery , news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Clear and present endangerment Republicans block subpoena of EPA climate document, while Boxer releases choice excerpts	Kate Sheppard	24 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been foiled in her attempt to obtain and make public a U.S. EPA document on the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases, thanks to Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee that she chairs. The document in question is an endangerment finding that the White House refused to accept when the EPA emailed it to the Office of Management and Budget in December 2007. EPA staffers have said that their findings -- that ...
Topics: climate, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Office of Management and Censorship Committee hears testimony from whistleblower on EPA dealings	Kate Sheppard	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Jason Burnett, the former associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency who resigned last month over the Bush administration's unwillingness to address greenhouse-gas emissions, provided more details to a Senate panel Tuesday about how top White House officials worked to quash new regulations on greenhouse gases. Appearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Burnett shared with senators some of the behind-the-scenes ne ...
Topics: Congress, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US Senate (all these topics)

The hole truth EPA proposes new regulations for injecting carbon into the ground	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The EPA released a proposal for a new rule on Tuesday that lays some of the groundwork needed to get carbon capture and storage technology up and running. If formally adopted, the new rule would create a new class of injection wells under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act's Underground Injection Control program. There are currently five different types of wells; this would add a sixth for those created to store carbon emissions from coal-fired power pl ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Come health or high water EPA scientists spell out dangers of climate change while EPA chief delays action	Kate Sheppard	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
While EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and the rest of the Bush administration have decided to run out the clock on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions, EPA scientists have released their own document [PDF] detailing the health risks posed by a warming planet, including wildfires, smog, disease, and an increased number of heat-related deaths. The 149-page endangerment analysis outlines the risks that global warming poses to human health, as well as air quality, ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Countdown to Crawford Bush administration decides to run out the clock on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration made clear today that it doesn't intend to do anything about climate change in the final six months in office, announcing that instead of responding to the Supreme Court's mandate last year that the EPA determine the dangers posed to humankind by greenhouse-gas emissions they would simply request further public comment. The White House and EPA released their much-anticipated Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking today, after weeks of dispute ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Down the Interstate Court strikes down federal clean-air rule that would have actually cleaned air		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:33 AM on 11 Jul 2008 One of the rare Bush administration clean-air policies favored by enviros has been struck down by a federal appeals court. The Clean Air Interstate Rule would have required 28 Eastern states to reduce soot-causing, smog-forming emissions that easily spread on the wind. The U.S. EPA estimated that the rule would prevent 17,000 premature deaths per year, tens of thou ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, insanity, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Is It Graduation Yet? Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won't decide on emissions before term ends		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:32 AM on 11 Jul 2008 EPA head Stephen Johnson. Photo: epa.gov Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them -- as the Supreme Court ordered -- the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to decide on the GHG-endanger ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Cheney reaction Ex-EPA official details White House interference on climate action	Kate Sheppard	08 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In a letter [PDF] made public today, former deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett indicates that both the Office of the Vice President and the Council on Environmental Quality have attempted to censor discussion of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. Burnett, who went public about the administration's obstruction after leaving the EPA in early June, detailed the interference in a letter to Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara B ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics)

Water We Supposed to Do? Lag in water-pollution enforcement traced to muddled court decision		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:58 PM on 08 Jul 2008 The U.S. EPA has neglected to pursue hundreds of potential violations of the Clean Water Act because of regulatory uncertainty, according to an internal memo. The lack of clarity stems from a 2006 Supreme Court ruling that left plenty up in the air about the types of waterways and wetlands that fall under EPA jurisdiction. The confusion has had "a significant impact ...
Topics: news, politics, regulation, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

A fuel's errand Republican House members ask EPA to scale back ethanol mandate	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
More than 50 Republican representatives sent a letter [PDF] to the Environmental Protection Agency last week urging the agency to lower the mandate for ethanol production in response to both the recent flooding in the Midwest and drought in the South. They argue that one-third of the country's corn crop will be used for ethanol to meet the Renewable Fuel Standard, and while the weather this year will cause a decrease in supply of corn, the RFS will increase demand ...
Topics: biofuels, Congress, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, severe weather, US EPA (all these topics)

Back draft The EPA documents the White House doesn't want you to see	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Brad Johnson over at Wonk Room acquired a copy of the EPA's recommendations on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions that the White House has been trying so hard to hide. The documents give you a good idea why: EPA officials concluded that the benefits of new, tougher standards 'far outweigh their costs.' In fact, if gas prices stay in the range of $3.50 a gallon, 'the net benefit to society could be in excess of $2 trillion' through 2040 if fuel efficiency standard ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

Burnett at the stake Former EPA official talks about White House's unwillingness to regulate greenhouse gas emissions	Kate Sheppard	30 Jun 2008	Gristmill
As we've reported here over the past week, the White House is trying to block the Environmental Protection Agency from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases. Over the weekend, Grist talked to former associate deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Jason Burnett about the agency's findings and the White House's interference. Burnett, an economist by training, and the EPA's environmental ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

White-Out House White House tries to keep EPA from showing how greenhouse gases could be regulated		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 30 Jun 2008 The White House is trying to block the U.S. EPA from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, reports The Wall Street Journal. The draft document, a formal response to a Supreme Court decision that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can thus be regulated under the Clean Air Act, must be OK'd by the White Hou ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics)

To Clean Up or Not to Clean Up ... We're Still on Defense U.S. Defense Department fighting EPA orders to clean up Superfund sites		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 30 Jun 2008 Defying environmental law, the U.S. Defense Department has resisted repeated orders lately from the U.S. EPA to clean up some of the nation's most contaminated places. The DoD/EPA standoff has turned into a bureaucratic pissing match wherein the EPA has asserted its authority to order and oversee cleanup of ultra-polluted Superfund si ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dally Affirmation Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:08 AM on 27 Jun 2008 A federal appeals court has decided not to force the Bush administration to speed up its decision on whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health or welfare. The administration's decision on CO2 is a necessary step in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollu ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Return to sender White House refuses to open email about regulating greenhouse gases	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The White House has refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, and has told EPA officials that the email they sent containing the document of their findings would not be opened, reports The New York Times. Apparently the email in question has been hanging in limbo since December 2007, according to EPA officials. The document details the EPA's proposed response to the Supreme Cour ...
Topics: Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

House rules Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA's proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
We reported a few weeks ago that the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming had reached a deal with the White House to secure documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on its work in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the case Massachusetts v. EPA. We also reported that The Wall Street Journal had gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency resulting from the Massachuse ...
Topics: Congress, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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