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Rocket Bottle
EPA not super-interested in keeping rocket fuel out of drinking water |
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06 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:53 PM on 06 May 2008 There is a "distinct possibility" that the U.S. EPA will pass on restricting perchlorate in the nation's water supplies, an agency official said Tuesday. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel ingredient that has been found at some 400 places in 35 states, can muck up normal thyroid function. But Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA assistant administrator for water, told the Senate Environm ... |
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| Topics: food, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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More on Gade ouster
Bush supporter apparently fired for doing her job |
Kate Sheppard |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| An EPA controversy brewing in the Midwest calls to mind the U.S. attorneys scandal, as Brad Johnson noted yesterday. Top officials in the agency have forced Mary Gade, head of the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago, to step down from her post or be fired by June 1. The ouster comes after Gade pressured Dow Chemical to clean up the dioxin-saturated soil and sediment extending 50 miles downstream from its Michigan headquarters. Gade is also the former director of the ... |
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| Topics: Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Mary, Mary, Too Contrary
Bush admin ousts top EPA official over Dow Chemical pollution case |
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01 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 8:41 PM on 01 May 2008 The Bush administration forced out the U.S. EPA's top Midwest regulator on Thursday, after months of contention over a pollution case involving Dow Chemical, the Chicago Tribune reports. Mary Gade, who was appointed by President Bush in 2006, had been tussling with Dow over plans to get the company to clean up extensive dioxin pollution that it dumped into Michigan waterw ... |
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| Topics: news, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Take Care, TCE
Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant |
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28 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Take Care, TCE Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant The solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) -- the most common industrial pollutant in U.S. drinking water -- poses a high risk of kidney cancer and other diseases, the National Research Council reported yesterday. The council said the U.S. EPA should get moving on a new risk assessment, which is expected to lead to new standards for allowabl ... |
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| Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Critical Mass
Massachusetts proposes tough standard for perchlorate in drinking water |
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16 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Critical Mass Massachusetts proposes tough standard for perchlorate in drinking water In a not-so-subtle jab at the Bush administration, Massachusetts has proposed a strict drinking-water standard for the toxic chemical perchlorate, which can disrupt metabolism, growth, and development, particularly in children. There is currently no federal limit on perchlorate in drinking water, though the U.S. EPA ... |
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| Topics: Massachusetts, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Flood Is Thicker Than Water
Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA |
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15 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA The post-Katrina mess of pollution along the Gulf Coast is "the largest national disaster that we at EPA or, we believe, that the nation has faced," U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said yesterday. Serious health problems threaten the region, he said, including floodwaters tainted with sewage-related bact ... |
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| Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Half a Bridge Over Troubled Water
EPA proposes stronger protections on lead in drinking water |
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08 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Half a Bridge Over Troubled Water EPA proposes stronger protections on lead in drinking water The U.S. EPA has proposed strengthening protections against lead in drinking water for the first time since 1991. The move comes in response to the recent brouhaha in the Washington, D.C., area, where residents were not informed of widespread lead contamination until years after it was discovered. The changes would require ... |
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| Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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