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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Just Breathe Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S.	Kathryn Schulz	17 Jun 2005	Counter Culture
14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Cap 'n' Trade Cut 'n' Paste		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cap 'n' Trade Cut 'n' Paste If new rules proposed by the Bush administration to cut power-plant mercury emissions sound like they were written by industry lobbyists, it's only because, well, they kinda were. The proposal, released by the U.S. EPA on Friday for a 60-day public comment period, contains at least 12 paragraphs lifted almost verbatim from memorandums sent to the EPA by Latham & Watkins, a top ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Down, Down, and Away -- It's Superfund Superfund Sites to Remain Toxic Due to Lack of Funding		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Down, Down, and Away -- It's Superfund Superfund Sites to Remain Toxic Due to Lack of Funding According to the U.S. EPA's inspector general, the Superfund program faces a $175 million shortfall this year; as a result, cleanup will not begin on 11 of the nation's worst toxic waste sites. Superfund was established in 1980 as an attempt to force polluting industries to pay to clean up their messes. Cleanup of to ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, toxics, 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)

Superfund Meets Kryptonite		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Superfund Meets Kryptonite Under the Bush administration, the Superfund program to clean up toxic-waste sites is seemingly becoming not-so-super. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the U.S. EPA completed cleanups at 42 toxic waste sites, down from 47 in the previous 12 months. This year's total was unimpressive compared to the average of 76 sites cleaned annually during the Clinton administration. The to ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ashes of Fire		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ashes of Fire Every year, coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce more than 100 million tons of ash, a byproduct of the burning process containing heavy metals or metal-like substances such as boron, selenium, arsenic, and magnesium. The energy industry claims the ash is benign, but many others fear that it is bad for the environment and human health. Those concerns are all the more pr ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Lake Manna From Heaven?		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lake Manna From Heaven? The U.S. EPA has unveiled a new Bush administration plan to protect and restore the Great Lakes. The plan aims to reduce PCB concentration in some Great Lakes fish species, restore or enhance 100,000 acres of wetland in the Great Lakes Basin, decrease introductions of invasive species, and accelerate the clean-up of contaminated sites. However, the government has not set ...
Topics: Great Lakes, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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