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Watch Out for the Sugar, Sugar Everglades still polluted, says EPA analysis		20 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:57 PM on 20 Sep 2007 Pollution in the Everglades remains significant despite billions of dollars spent on cleaning and restoring the park over the last decade, according to new analysis from the U.S. EPA. On the bright side, erosion has stabilized and mercury levels in the tiny mosquitofish have dropped; on the, um, not-bright side, mercury levels still accumulate in higher-up-the-food-chain fish enough to r ...
Topics: Florida, national parks, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Remedial Math U.S. EPA falls short of fiscal-year goals for Superfund cleanup		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:34 PM on 14 Sep 2007 The U.S. EPA had aimed to clean up 40 Superfund sites in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, but only got around to 24 of them. The Bush administration will now average 39 finished cleanups a year; just for comparison's sake, the Clinton administration gussied up an average of 76 sites annually. More than 1,200 sites are still awaiting remediation, which means that at this rate ... oh, ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

That's It, We're Not Washing Our Undies Anymore Groups ask U.S. EPA to ban chemical in detergent that feminizes fish		06 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
That's It, We're Not Washing Our Undies Anymore Groups ask U.S. EPA to ban chemical in detergent that feminizes fish Your detergent gets your clothes clean, sure -- but does it feminize your trout? Five green groups and a labor union are petitioning the U.S. EPA to ban a family of chemicals used in cleaning products that have been linked to gender changes in fish. Each year, the U.S. produces about ...
Topics: green living, news, scientific research, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Testing, Testing ... Is This Thing On? Federal chemical testing program inadequate, scientists say		30 May 2007	Daily Grist
Testing, Testing ... Is This Thing On? Federal chemical testing program inadequate, scientists say In 1996, Congress mandated that the U.S. EPA launch a chemical testing program within three years. My, how time flies. The Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program is now set to begin in 2008 -- and shockingly, critics say it panders to Big Chemical. They point to the EPA's plans to only do high-dosage tests, despite evidence tha ...
Topics: news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Latter-Day Paints EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga		13 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Latter-Day Paints EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga A strange environmental-justice saga is unfolding in New Jersey, pitting Ford Motor Co. against a community of Ramapough Indians and their allies. Decades ago, Ford dumped thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge at a former mining area. The dump was declared a Superfund site, reportedly cleaned up, and del ...
Topics: environmental justice, insanity, New Jersey, news, politics, 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)

We're Just Saying Scientists, states, and Congress point out that mercury is bad		25 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
We're Just Saying Scientists, states, and Congress point out that mercury is bad Mercury is not a problem. Mercury is not a problem. (Psst: hey readers, it's us. We interrupt this federal brainwashing to let you know that researchers who sampled more than 2,700 fish from 626 rivers and streams in 12 Western states found mercury in every one of them.) Mercury is not a problem. (The team, from the U.S. EPA and Oregon State University, s ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Plumb Crazy U.S. EPA considers delisting lead as an air pollutant		07 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Plumb Crazy U.S. EPA considers delisting lead as an air pollutant That sound you hear? It's jaws dropping everywhere in response to the U.S. EPA's announcement that it might stop regulating lead as an air pollutant. Citing the fact that concentrations of the toxic heavy metal in the air have dropped 90 percent since 1980, and using logic we can only assume was supplied by EPA administrator Stephen Johnson's six-year-old granddaughter, ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hormones and Groans Endocrine disruptors in everyday products may trigger early puberty		17 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Hormones and Groans Endocrine disruptors in everyday products may trigger early puberty Some doctors worry that children as young as preschool age are facing a higher risk of early-onset puberty -- including breast growth and pubic-hair development -- due to the increasing prevalence of certain cosmetics, prescription drugs, and environmental contaminants containing endocrine disruptors or hormones. In rare cases, clusters of young ch ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides		11 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Grace to the Bottom W.R. Grace must pay to clean up asbestos mess in Montana, Supreme Court decides W.R. Grace & Co. must pay $54.5 million to remove asbestos-contaminated soil from the mining town of Libby, Mont., the Supreme Court decided yesterday. The U.S. EPA sued the company five years ago to recover cleanup costs; a lower court ruled in the agency's favor an ...
Topics: environmental justice, mining and drilling, Montana, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S.		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S. To protect their citizens from dangerous chemicals, the European Union, Japan, and other nations have tightened their environmental standards for hundreds of manufactured products in recent years. Meanwhile, the U.S. EPA hasn't restricted any industrial compounds since an unsuccessful attempt ...
Topics: China, European Union, Japan, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust A U.S. EPA whistleblower has gone public with accusations that the agency downplayed the health hazards of dust from the collapsed World Trade Center. EPA senior scientist Cate Jenkins -- who has long clashed with her employer -- says the agency relied on misleading test reports in 2002 and 2003. A few months after 9/11, ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Stop Us If You've Heard This One EPA must consult wildlife officials about pesticide use		25 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Stop Us If You've Heard This One EPA must consult wildlife officials about pesticide use Yesterday a federal judge overturned a two-year-old regulation that allowed the U.S. EPA to approve pesticides without consulting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about toxic impact on rare animals and plants. Ruling in favor of nine environmental groups, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenor declared th ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (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)

Break on Through to the Other 'Cide EPA proposes ban on two toxic pesticides, limits on use of many others		04 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Break on Through to the Other 'Cide EPA proposes ban on two toxic pesticides, limits on use of many others As part of a congressionally mandated 10-year review, the U.S. EPA this week recommended banning two particularly toxic pesticides and putting thousands of restrictions on the use of others. Out of 231 "active ingredients" reviewed by the agency, the two singled out for bans are lindane, which is used primarily on grain ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Take Care, TCE Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant		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 ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Perc o' Late EPA will require residential dry cleaners to phase out toxic solvent		17 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Perc o' Late EPA will require residential dry cleaners to phase out toxic solvent Dry cleaners in residential buildings must phase out use of the toxic solvent perchloroethylene by 2020, under new U.S. EPA regulations. About 28,000 dry cleaners use perc, but only 1,300 of them will be affected by the new ruling. As old machines wear out, dry cleaners must replace them with non-perc machines. Health risks to nearby residents may be &qu ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Big Brother Knows Best House bill would keep states from setting tough toxics rules		14 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Big Brother Knows Best House bill would keep states from setting tough toxics rules House Republicans are pushing legislation that would keep states from setting standards for pesticides and health-threatening industrial chemicals that are more stringent than federal regulations. If passed, the bill could nullify a California ban on brominated fire retardants, for example, and restrictions in San Francisco that ...
Topics: California, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dioxin Another Day EPA should reassess dioxin risk, science panel says		12 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Dioxin Another Day EPA should reassess dioxin risk, science panel says The U.S. EPA may be overestimating the cancer-causing risk of the chemical dioxin at very low doses, and should crunch the numbers in new ways before setting a cleanup standard, says a research council from the National Academy of Sciences. The EPA published a draft report on dioxin in 2003 indicating that the level of dioxin exposure ...
Topics: National Academy of Sciences, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide If you've been avoiding Brussels sprouts because of pesticide contamination -- as opposed to the grossness -- you're in luck: by next year, the U.S. EPA plans to phase out organophosphate azinphos-methyl (AZM) on the odiferous buds, as well as on nuts and nursery stocks. By 2010, AZM would be banned completely, affecting growers of apples, blueberries, cherries ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Twist of Organophosphate EPA scientists say they're being pressured on pesticide studies		25 May 2006	Daily Grist
A Twist of Organophosphate EPA scientists say they're being pressured on pesticide studies U.S. EPA managers and pesticide-industry officials have been pressuring agency scientists to skip steps in pesticide testing and allow continued use of some potentially harmful pesticides, says a letter sent to EPA chief Stephen Johnson by union leaders representing agency employees. The "integrity of the science upon which agency decisions ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill The House of Representatives was on an eco-roll yesterday as it fixed up an Interior Department spending bill to send to the Senate. Over the objections of top Republicans, lawmakers approved 252-165 a measure that would put oil and gas ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, politics, toxics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide After contriving to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide for use in strawberry fields forever, the U.S. EPA has withdrawn the plan in the face of fierce opposition from California officials, labor unions, and enviros. The approval of methyl iodide was to be the culmination of a nearly 15-year search for a sub ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

TRI This on for Sighs EPA unveils mixed news on U.S. toxic emissions		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
TRI This on for Sighs EPA unveils mixed news on U.S. toxic emissions The U.S. EPA issued its annual Toxics Release Inventory this week, and it's a pessimist's dream. U.S. waterways absorbed 241 million pounds of chemicals in 2004, up 10 percent from the year before. Dioxin, mercury, and PCB releases were down, but (a fact the press failed to note) the 58 percent dioxin decline in 2004 was relative to a huge spike in 2003; compared to ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lung Out to Dry Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems		13 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Lung Out to Dry Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems With all due respect to the Free-Floating Anxiety and War Fever afflicting many in the post-9/11 world (prescription: less talk radio), at least 15,000 people have actual medical complaints related to the attack. Many victims afflicted with "World Trade Center cough" assumed it would pass once the dust settled; instead, problems have ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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