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Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science		30 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science Confused over who they're supposed to be killing -- their enemies? themselves? -- the Defense Department in recent years has often defied U.S. EPA recommendations for environmental cleanups and toxicity standards. Case in point: A 2001 EPA draft report estimated that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) -- a widespread water pollutant fou ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Critical Mass Massachusetts proposes tough standard for perchlorate in drinking water		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 ...
Topics: Massachusetts, news, toxics, 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 Midas Crutch EPA may replace ozone-depleting chemical with cancer-causing chemical		22 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
The Midas Crutch EPA may replace ozone-depleting chemical with cancer-causing chemical Here's a hypothetical: Say you were a nation that signed a pact to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. Say you therefore needed an alternative to methyl bromide, an ozone-attacking pesticide used on strawberries and other crops. Would you phase in a highly toxic fumigant that probably causes cancer? Sigh. Of course you would. The U.S. ...
Topics: California, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Dropping Acid EPA asks companies to phase out toxic chemical PFOA		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dropping Acid EPA asks companies to phase out toxic chemical PFOA The U.S. EPA, having recently discovered that P stands for "protection," has asked DuPont and seven other chemical companies to phase out use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon cookware, stain-repellant fabrics, microwave popcorn bags, and other scarily ubiquitous household goods. If the eight companies and their ove ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Kid Tested, Mother Appalled Bush admin to accept pesticide testing on humans, and in some cases kids		24 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Kid Tested, Mother Appalled Bush admin to accept pesticide testing on humans, and in some cases kids Enviros, public-interest groups, members of Congress, and even some government scientists are criticizing soon-to-be-released U.S. EPA rules on pesticide testing on humans. The regulations -- leaked in advance of their formal unveiling, which could happen as soon as this week -- would accept tests of pesticides on non-pregnant adults. ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Stickin' It to the Pan DuPont to pay $16.5 million for hiding chemical's risks		15 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Stickin' It to the Pan DuPont to pay $16.5 million for hiding chemical's risks DuPont will pay $16.5 million in a settlement with the U.S. EPA for failing to report information on health and environmental risks of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used to make Teflon and other plastics. Greenies are ticked that the company won't be forced to admit liability or apologize, and say the fine ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

What, Too Busy Screwing Up New Orleans? EPA abandons big cleanup plans near New York City's Ground Zero		30 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
What, Too Busy Screwing Up New Orleans? EPA abandons big cleanup plans near New York City's Ground Zero The U.S. EPA is ditching ambitious cleanup plans for post-9/11 lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, disbanding a panel of scientists, community leaders, and local officials that has met for 20 months on the matter. The panel's efforts -- to devise a comprehensive decontamination plan for homes and businesses in the path of dust ...
Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

General Electric Slide Leaked memo raises doubts about thoroughness of GE's Hudson cleanup plan		21 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
General Electric Slide Leaked memo raises doubts about thoroughness of GE's Hudson cleanup plan Remember the historic settlement announced last month between the U.S. EPA and General Electric? The one that would have GE clean up PCBs in the Hudson River, one of the largest industrial cleanups ever attempted? Yeah, well ... don't get your hopes up. GE intends to cap off much of the pol ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Between Barack and a Hard Place Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules		07 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Between Barack and a Hard Place Obama will block EPA nominees until agency issues new lead rules President Bush's latest U.S. EPA nominee has run into an obstacle no one anticipated: a Democrat with cojones. On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was placing a hold on the nomination of Susan Bodine to head the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response -- and furthermore, that h ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Illinois, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Taint Bernard La. eco-group slams official silence on toxins in New Orleans suburbs		27 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Taint Bernard La. eco-group slams official silence on toxins in New Orleans suburbs The soil in two New Orleans suburbs may be highly contaminated with heavy metals and petroleum products, charge residents. They say local and federal officials aren't warning returning residents about toxic hazards or cleaning up the mess. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade paid a certified testing company to assess soil samples taken during Sept ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected		13 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected Some of the floodwaters pumped out of New Orleans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- about 250 billion gallons all told, dumped mostly into Lake Pontchartrain -- may not have been as toxic as initially feared. Researchers at Louisiana State University took samples five to nine days after the deluge and found ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Mold Song and Dance EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess		07 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Mold Song and Dance EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess The U.S. EPA has the authority to assess and manage environmental disasters, but activists and even some EPA staffers allege that so far agency testing of water, air, and soil in the Gulf Coast has been insufficient, and its health warnings too weak, to adequately protect returning residents. EPA should be more actively preventing ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Wastes Great, Less Filing EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial facilities		23 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Wastes Great, Less Filing EPA proposes fewer toxics reporting requirements for industrial facilities Industrial plants would report their chemical releases every other year instead of annually under a policy change proposed by the U.S. EPA. The agency also indicated it wants to raise the threshold for reporting the release of certain chemicals from 500 to 5,000 pounds. Both are major changes to ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA		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 ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

A Detox on Both Your Houses EPA releasing new, stricter rules on human testing of pesticides		07 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
A Detox on Both Your Houses EPA releasing new, stricter rules on human testing of pesticides Researchers would be prohibited from intentionally exposing children and pregnant women to pesticides in order to study the chemicals' effects, under new regulations being proposed today by the U.S. EPA. The agency formulated the rules -- its first-ever on human testing of pesticides -- after news emerged several months ago about a ...
Topics: news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Toxic Avoider EPA failing to get health data on scads of potentially harmful chemicals		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
The Toxic Avoider EPA failing to get health data on scads of potentially harmful chemicals The U.S. EPA hasn't collected data on the potential risks of tens of thousands of toxic substances, putting the public at risk, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, which regulates industrial chemicals, the EPA can't force companies to provide health data unless there ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff Catalyzed by legal action from enviro groups, the U.S. EPA has started cracking down on an oft-overlooked cause of befouled waterways: polluted runoff. On its journey through urban and suburban streets, rainwater picks up and carries motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, and other nasties, eventually dumping them in majo ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the 'hot spots' they'll create		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
That's Hot States sue EPA over new mercury rules and the "hot spots" they'll create A coalition of 11 states filed suit against the U.S. EPA in federal court yesterday, charging that the agency's recently issued mercury emissions rules, which establish a "cap and trade" system whereby coal-fired power plants can trade pollution credits, pose an unacceptable threat to publi ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Uncle Sam Wants You! ... To Clean Up After Him Closed military bases frequently icky		12 May 2005	Daily Grist
Uncle Sam Wants You! ... To Clean Up After Him Closed military bases frequently icky Irony alert: Hot on the heels of news that the Pentagon is appealing to Congress for exemptions from air and hazardous-waste laws comes word that closed military bases are ridden with, uh, dirty air and hazardous waste. Thirty-four military bases shut down since 1988 are on the U.S. EPA Superfund list of toxic sites, and the upcoming r ...
Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

If the Military Can't Pollute Freely, the Terrorists Have Won Pentagon asks Congress for exemptions from environmental laws, again		11 May 2005	Daily Grist
If the Military Can't Pollute Freely, the Terrorists Have Won Pentagon asks Congress for exemptions from environmental laws, again For the fourth time in as many years, the Defense Department has appealed to Congress for exemptions from major environmental laws -- this time it's air and hazardous-waste laws, as part of the 2006 defense authorization bill. In congressional testimony last year, a senior Pentagon official ...
Topics: air pollution, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lead and Circus EPA lead regs quietly morph from mandatory rules to voluntary standards		10 May 2005	Daily Grist
Lead and Circus EPA lead regs quietly morph from mandatory rules to voluntary standards The U.S. EPA has fallen a bit -- and by "a bit" we mean nine years -- behind schedule on issuing lead regulations pertaining to building renovation. But better late than never, right? Maybe not. Turns out the EPA has quietly shifted its regulatory course from issuing mandatory rules for contractors to that old Bush administration chestnut ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Strongarm of the Law Supreme Court rules that pesticide makers are liable for damages		28 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Strongarm of the Law Supreme Court rules that pesticide makers are liable for damages The U.S. Supreme Court has acted to restore a measure of sanity to the world of pesticides and weed-killers. In the 1990s, lawyers for big chemical companies pushed a novel interpretation of the 1972 federal law governing pesticides: By submitting pesticides for approval by the U.S. EPA, they said, companies thereby gained immunity from an ...
Topics: news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

World War CO2 Feds, states, and interest groups face off in court over carbon dioxide		11 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
World War CO2 Feds, states, and interest groups face off in court over carbon dioxide An epic environmental case got a day in court on Friday, as a coalition of 12 states, several cities, and 13 nonprofit organizations squared off against the federal government, 11 states, and 19 industry groups before a panel of three judges in a federal appeals court. At issue is the U.S. EPA's authority to regulate carbon ...
Topics: air pollution, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Johnson Pulls Out EPA scraps controversial pesticide study		11 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Johnson Pulls Out EPA scraps controversial pesticide study Just two days after Senate Democrats announced they would block Stephen Johnson's confirmation as U.S. EPA administrator until the contentious Children's Health Environmental Exposure Research Study was cancelled, Johnson bowed to pressure, reversed the agency's previous wait-and-see position, and pulled the plug. The creepily acronymed CHEERS would have given a group of low-i ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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