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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)

Down, but Not Out		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Down, but Not Out Here's a spot of good news: Releases of toxic chemicals by U.S. industries declined 15 percent between 2000 and 2001 (the most recent year for which data are available) and dropped by more than 50 percent since 1988. That's the latest word from the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory. Of course, that means there are still 6.2 billion pounds of toxic chemicals being ...
Topics: mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Ex-siting		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Ex-siting The U.S. EPA has restored Superfund monies to clean up 11 toxic sites, despite having told local officials at the sites that they would not receive any money this year. But only four of the sites will get the full amount requested by the officials. Last month, a report by the agency's inspector general listed 33 sites in 18 states that would not receive requested funds; with the recent shift, t ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Whistleblow While You Work		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Whistleblow While You Work Citing laws designed to protect institutional whistleblowers, the Labor Department has ordered the U.S. EPA to reinstate a former investigator to "ombudsman-related duties." The department concluded that EPA policy analyst Hugh Kaufman was removed from those duties in retaliation for complaining about the agency -- in other words, for doing his job too well. As an ass ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Stranger in a Familiar Land		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Ties That Blind		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Ties That Blind The scientists who advise the U.S. EPA on regulatory decisions often have ties to the very industries that would be affected by the regulations being assessed, according to a study scheduled to be released today by the General Accounting Office, a congressional watchdog agency. In one case, seven of 17 members of a Science Advisory Board panel studying the cancer risks of a toxic chem ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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