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Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules		19 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules In a holiday gift to industry, the U.S. EPA has relaxed rules on reporting toxic pollution. Under rule amendments approved yesterday, industrial plants will not have to file detailed public Toxic Release Inventory reports unless they spew 2,000 pounds of pollution or more, four times the previous limit, and they'll face looser requirements for repor ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules		21 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules Yet again, environmental groups are suing the U.S. EPA for issuing rules the enviros say will increase pollution. In the old days, refineries and other industrial plants were required to submit a malfunction contingency plan to the EPA; under a rule that went into effect in April, the agency has discretion in asking for such plans, and refineri ...
Topics: California, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel New federal clean-air rules came into effect yesterday, requiring sulfur content to be cut by 97 percent in at least four-fifths of U.S.-refined diesel fuel. The new "ultra-low sulfur diesel" will hit service stations in the fall. The U.S. EPA estimates it will raise the cost of diesel fuel by about five cents a gallon; other estimates rang ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (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)

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)

Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines		31 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines A Bush administration deal announced yesterday will allow thousands of factory farms to evade pollution fines. The U.S. EPA has signed consent agreements with nearly 2,700 companies in the egg, poultry, dairy, and hog industries, exempting them from paying major daily fines for toxic air emissions. The companies will ante up a flat $2,500 to pa ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more		31 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more The Bush administration may finally eviscerate the legal basis for many pesky air-pollution lawsuits against coal-fired power plants. A new proposal being drafted by the U.S. EPA would change the system for monitoring plants' emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide: after a plant modernized its equipment, ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, 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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