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Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules		19 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules In a holiday gift to industry, the U.S. EPA has relaxed rules on reporting toxic pollution. Under rule amendments approved yesterday, industrial plants will not have to file detailed public Toxic Release Inventory reports unless they spew 2,000 pounds of pollution or more, four times the previous limit, and they'll face looser requirements for repor ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules		21 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules Yet again, environmental groups are suing the U.S. EPA for issuing rules the enviros say will increase pollution. In the old days, refineries and other industrial plants were required to submit a malfunction contingency plan to the EPA; under a rule that went into effect in April, the agency has discretion in asking for such plans, and refineri ...
Topics: California, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel New federal clean-air rules came into effect yesterday, requiring sulfur content to be cut by 97 percent in at least four-fifths of U.S.-refined diesel fuel. The new "ultra-low sulfur diesel" will hit service stations in the fall. The U.S. EPA estimates it will raise the cost of diesel fuel by about five cents a gallon; other estimates rang ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2 Ten states have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. EPA over what has become a central point of contention between the feds and ... people who have to live on the planet for the next 50 years: whether or not the agency has the authority to regulate planet-warming carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Plaintiffs -- who've been joined by two cities and three gree ...
Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (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)

Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines		31 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Fine and Randy Bush admin deal exempts thousands of farms from pollution fines A Bush administration deal announced yesterday will allow thousands of factory farms to evade pollution fines. The U.S. EPA has signed consent agreements with nearly 2,700 companies in the egg, poultry, dairy, and hog industries, exempting them from paying major daily fines for toxic air emissions. The companies will ante up a flat $2,500 to pa ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more		31 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Freedom to Pollute Is on the March New air rules could allow coal-fired plants to pollute more The Bush administration may finally eviscerate the legal basis for many pesky air-pollution lawsuits against coal-fired power plants. A new proposal being drafted by the U.S. EPA would change the system for monitoring plants' emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide: after a plant modernized its equipment, ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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)

Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, 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)

Mine, All Mine Agencies Fight Over Trust Fund to Protect Groundwater from Nevada Mine		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Nevada, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

We Will Rocket You EPA and DOD Square Off Over Rocket-Fuel Pollution		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
We Will Rocket You EPA and DOD Square Off Over Rocket-Fuel Pollution The U.S. EPA is squaring off against the Department of Defense and NASA over ammonium perchlorate, a chemical long used by DOD and NASA for munitions and rocket fuel, and typically disposed of by being diluted in water and dumped on the ground. Based on studies of rodents and children, the EPA contends that perchlorate ...
Topics: Department of Defense, pollution and waste, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'Reduces' Pollution by Measuring It Differently		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, mining and drilling, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks In a move that could lead to more pollution in national parks, the Bush administration on Friday said it will permit North Dakota to change the way it estimates air pollution in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Seems like a small thing, but the new estimation formula is likely ...
Topics: energy, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping A coalition of 125 environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. EPA, asking it to immediately halt the dumping of waste ash from coal-fired power plants. They claim the ash contains a variety of toxins and pollutes ground, surface, and drinking wat ...
Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, health, National Academy of Sciences, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution Most state environmental officials expect that changes to Clean Air Act rules proposed by the Bush administration would lead to higher air pollution, according to a survey conducted by the General Accounting Office upon the request of Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.). The survey gathe ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, 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)

Morose Code		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Morose Code In a move that should mean cleaner air for Washington, D.C., a federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. EPA's decision to accept a D.C.-area proposal to delay enforcement of Clean Air Act-mandated pollution levels for several years past the act's 1999 deadline. The area was classified as being in "severe" violation of federal ozone ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Washington DC (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)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA Attempts to Defuse MTBE Issue in New Hampshire		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, elections, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. EPA has the authority to override state government decisions on what constitutes the "best available" anti-pollution technology. Enviros hailed the decision as a victory for clean air, while libertarian think tanks, a coali ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Permission to Pollute, Sir! Pentagon Requests Exemption From Three More Environmental Laws		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Permission to Pollute, Sir! Pentagon Requests Exemption From Three More Environmental Laws The Department of Defense plans to petition Congress for exemption from three federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and two toxic waste statutes. This will mark the third time in three years the Pentagon has made the appeal; Congress denied the first two requ ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, John Dingell, 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)

Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You Top EPA Enforcers Abandon the Agency		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Crime and No Punishment Pollution Enforcement Has Dropped Dramatically Under Bush		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Crime and No Punishment Pollution Enforcement Has Dropped Dramatically Under Bush President Bush talks tough about going after the bad guys, but it seems he's been letting one set of lawbreakers off the hook: polluters. Enforcement of environmental laws under Bush has been far weaker than it was under his father and under President Clinton, according to records from the last 15 years. The number of violation notices s ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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