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This is Not a Testimony Four senators call for perjury investigation of EPA chief's testimony		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:32 AM on 30 Jul 2008 Four senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee have called for the resignation of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and have asked the U.S. attorney general to investigate whether Johnson lied to Congress in a hearing about California's greenhouse-gas emissions waiver. In a letter to the attorney general, the senators wrote, "[W]e believe that there is ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States, 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)

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)

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)

State of Denial EPA staff supported California auto-emissions waiver, documents show		24 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 AM on 24 Jan 2008 As suspected, U.S. EPA employees last year told agency Administrator Stephen Johnson that California had "compelling and extraordinary conditions" that would justify a federal waiver allowing the state to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos, according to EPA documents reviewed by Senate staffers this week. Nonetheless, Johnson denied the state that waiver in Dec ...
Topics: jackassery, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry		04 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry Brace yourself -- your entire worldview is about to be shaken. Turns out, in coming up with its new rules on power-plant mercury emissions, the U.S. EPA violated agency protocol and ignored scientific evidence in order to stay in line with a predetermined goal that favors industry. ...
Topics: business, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's new book It's My Party Too is out now, and she is having her moment of media ubiquity, bashing what she calls the increasing extremism of the Republican Party. In interviews and appearances on such commie-pinko outlets as NPR's "Fresh Air& ...
Topics: green living, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill Nikki Tinsley, the inspector general of the U.S. EPA, is ruffling feathers in Washington, D.C., these days. A registered independent appointed by President Clinton in 1999, she has developed a reputation for integrity, professionalism, and steely resolve. She views her job not simply as monitoring for fraud and waste, but ensuring that the EPA is doing its ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes 'Clear Skies'		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes "Clear Skies" The White House has told the U.S. EPA to hold off on issuing the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which would curtail emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, in deference to a renewed push in Congress to pass the Bush administration's long-stalled "Clear Skies" legislation. Delaying the rule will increase ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS		13 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS President Bush announced today that he intends to move U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt into a new position as secretary of health and human services, ending Leavitt's tenure of just over a year at the agency. Leavitt, a rising star in the Republican Party and a fierce Bush loyalist, managed to raise the ire of environmentalists numerous times during his short stint at EPA as ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

See You Later, Regulator Bush victory portends big and enduring changes in environmental regs		08 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
See You Later, Regulator Bush victory portends big and enduring changes in environmental regs U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt is touting last week's election as "a validation of our philosophy and agenda," and his agency and others that oversee environmental matters are expected to move aggressively to relax mandatory regulatory limits in favor of market-based systems and voluntary targets. Expect action on Bush's la ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Unsuitable Lawsuits against polluters decline under Bush administration		13 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Unsuitable Lawsuits against polluters decline under Bush administration In the first three years of the Bush administration, the number of civil lawsuits filed by the federal government against polluters declined by 75 percent compared to the last three years of the Clinton administration, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. Eric Shaeffer, who quit the U.S. EPA ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Who You Gonna Believe, Us or Some 'Inspector'? EPA inspector general blasts Bush admin's power-plant rules		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Who You Gonna Believe, Us or Some "Inspector"? EPA inspector general blasts Bush admin's power-plant rules The U.S. EPA came under harsh criticism yesterday from environmental fringe extremists ... oh, wait, no ... actually, from its own top investigative official. The agency's inspector general issued a scathing report saying that enforcement of clean-air laws has been crippled by the Bush admini ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire	Amanda Griscom	28 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Task Force Majeure The Supreme Court may alleviate Cheney's energy task force troubles	Amanda Griscom	17 Dec 2003	Muckraker
On Monday, the Supreme Court offered Vice President Dick Cheney a possible escape hatch from the great energy task force imbroglio. The high court agreed to hear an appeal from Cheney, who for more than a year has been defying a federal judge's order to pony up documents about his infamous 2001 task force. Those behind the lawsuit against the veep are certain the documents will re ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mercury, Muckraker, New Jersey, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Splitting Airs Bush's latest clean-air proposals are better than nothing, but how much better?	Amanda Griscom	10 Dec 2003	Muckraker
Who let the smog out? Photo: EPA "I hate it that we're always complaining," said Eric Schaeffer, a former senior enforcement official at the U.S. EPA who resigned in 2002 to protest the Bush administration's poor record on nabbing polluters. "So, looking on the bright side, I suppose you could call this better than nothing." Schaeffer was referring to r ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

It's My Party, I Can Write If I Want to Former EPA Chief to Call for Moderation in New Book		29 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
It's My Party, I Can Write If I Want to Former EPA Chief to Call for Moderation in New Book Christie Whitman, who seemed none too happy during her conflict-laden stint as head of the U.S. EPA, has found a new vocation: author. Whitman has struck a deal with the Penguin Group to publish a book that will call for political moderation instead of hard-line stands. Presumably, she knows whereof she writes: Whitman ran ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

In the Hot Seat States Sue Federal Government Over Climate Change		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
In the Hot Seat States Sue Federal Government Over Climate Change Responding to a U.S. EPA decision earlier this summer that the agency does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from vehicles and power plants, 12 states filed suit against the federal government yesterday to force the Bush administration to do something about global climate change. The suit alleges that the EPA is ignoring federal stud ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

E.P.-Eh? The Environmental Protection Agency just isn't like it was in the good old (Nixon) days	Russell Train	22 Sep 2003	Soapbox
Mike Leavitt -- how long will he be smiling? Photo: Utah governor's office. There has been considerable adverse comment from the environmental community about President Bush's nomination of Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt (R) to head the U.S. EPA. Most of that criticism has focused on the governor's environmental record in Utah, a record that appears to have both positive and n ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support Mike Leavitt, President Bush's choice to become the next head of the U.S. EPA, knows that environmentally minded Democrats are going to make his confirmation hearings tough, so he's getting his ducks in a row. Within a day of his nomination by Bush, Leavitt had called Carol Browner, the EPA administrator under President Clinton, to ask if he could use her as a ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Clear and Present Danger?		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Clear and Present Danger? For months, the U.S. EPA has withheld findings indicating that President Bush's proposed "Clear Skies" legislation would lead to more pollution-related deaths than a bipartisan Senate bill to fight air pollution, and that the bipartisan bill would not be much more costly than Clear Skies. A leaked copy of the EPA's data showed, among other things, that a bill spons ...
Topics: air pollution, ozone, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fisher Cuts Bait		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Fisher Cuts Bait U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman officially stepped down today -- and she wasn't alone. The agency's second-in-command, Linda Fisher, unexpectedly resigned as well, leaving the EPA without an obvious leader until a permanent successor is nominated and approved, a process that is expected to take many months. Like Whitman, Fisher expressed pride in the work done by the EPA during her tenure and said i ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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