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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

Data Dumping		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Data Dumping Think the U.S. EPA is keeping tabs on water pollution around the country? Think again. The agency's computer system for tracking and controlling water pollution is outmoded, riddled with bad data, and lacks information on thousands of sources of serious pollution, according to a report released last week by the EPA's inspector general. Efforts to fix the computer system have been slow, underfu ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Watered Down		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Watered Down Nearly a third of all major industrial facilities and state-operated sewage-treatment plants in the U.S. have significantly violated clean water regulations in the last two years, and one out of four operated on an expired pollution permit last year, according to a recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Moreover, relatively few of the noncompliant facilities have fa ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Daily Load		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Daily Load The Bush administration could slash a key program of the Clean Water Act requiring federal oversight of states' efforts to restore polluted bodies of water. About 300,000 miles of rivers and shorelines and 5 million acres of lakes in the U.S. are categorized as "impaired water bodies" in need of remediation, but for decades, some states neglected their cleanup. That began to shift ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

At Whit's End		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
At Whit's End U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman now thinks her decision to revoke a Clinton administration rule to reduce arsenic in drinking water was a bone-headed move. She told USA Today that her decision wasn't bad policy, but bad politics: "Politically, if I'd been smart, I would've never changed it. ... I would've let the courts decide. We were going to be sued anyway by the West ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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