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  • July 2008

    • Corn-Hungry Texas Calls for Cuts in Biofuel Mandates

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 23, 08 2:32 AM CDT

      Corn-Hungry Texas Calls for Cuts in Biofuel Mandates

      The EPA is considering a proposal from the governor of Texas to slash the amount of ethanol that oil companies are required to blend into gasoline to meet quotas, the New York Times reports. Gov. Rick Perry is calling for the EPA to cut the ethanol mandate in half, from 9 billion to 4.5 billion gallons, arguing that billions of bushels of corn should be used to feed livestock instead. More »

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      gas prices  • biofuel  • Environmental Protection Agency  • ethanol  • corn  • oil companies  • livestock

    • EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 17, 08 4:46 PM CDT

      EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US

      Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook on global warming, the Post notes. More »

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      Bush administration  • climate change  • global warming  • environment  • Environmental Protection Agency  • heat wave  • scientists

    • Bush, EPA Won't Touch Emissions

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 11, 08 2:24 PM CDT

      Bush, EPA Won't Touch Emissions

      Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will have to wait until President Bush is out of office, the EPA announced today. Instead, the agency will say it needs months of further public comment to make any decision. The statement is the end result of a protracted White House effort to tone down the agency’s findings, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Bush administration  • US Supreme Court  • greenhouse gases  • Environmental Protection Agency  • greenhouse-gas emissions  • EPA

    • EPA Cuts the Value of a Life by $1M

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 4:13 AM CDT

      EPA Cuts the Value of a Life by $1M

      The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly reduced the hypothetical value of a human life by almost a million dollars to $6.9 million, reports the AP . The figure is used in cost benefit analyses to weigh the life-saving potential of environmental protection policies. Placing a lower value on human life could be used to justify avoiding costly regulations. More »

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      Environmental Protection Agency  • National Association of Clean Air Agencies  • environmentalists

    • Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT

      Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official

      Aides to Vice President Dick Cheney censored congressional testimony on climate change by a top government official, a former official at the Environmental Protection Agency charges. Jason Burnett claims Cheney’s office, fearing testimony would lead to greater regulation of greenhouse gases, excised six pages of text regarding the health risks of global warming by the director of the Centers for Disease Control last fall, the AP reports. More »

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      global warming  • Dick Cheney  • Environmental Protection Agency  • Centers for Disease Control  • Barbara Boxer  • Stephen Johnson

  • June 2008

    • Polluting Pentagon Rebuffs EPA Orders

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 30, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Polluting Pentagon Rebuffs EPA Orders

      The Pentagon is holding out on an Environmental Protection Agency order to clean up pollutants from three military bases where chemicals have become an "imminent and substantial" threat to the public health and environment, the Washington Post reports. The Defense Department also won’t sign contracts to clean up 12 other military sites listed among the most polluted areas in the US. Instead, it has sought federal backing to deny the EPA’s power to issue such orders. More »

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      environment  • Pentagon  • public health  • Environmental Protection Agency  • Department of Defense  • Pentagon waste  • hazardous chemicals  • pollutants

    • White House Ignored EPA Pollutants Email

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 25, 08 9:34 AM CDT

      White House Ignored EPA Pollutants Email

      The White House didn’t like the findings in a Supreme Court-mandated report on pollutants from the EPA—so it simply refused to open the email, the New York Times reports. Instead, the administration has successfully pressured the agency into releasing a watered-down, recommendation-free report. Among the omitted sections: analysis showing that tougher automobile regulation could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • environment  • US Supreme Court  • auto industry  • Environmental Protection Agency  • fuel efficiency  • executive power  • EPA

    • New Shower Curtains Smell Like Cancer

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 12, 08 5:40 PM CDT

      New Shower Curtains Smell Like Cancer

      Ever wonder about that smell given off by new shower curtains? Well, according to a new study, it’s poisonous. An independent organization has found that PVC shower curtains on shelves at Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and others may give off measurable amounts of dangerous, volatile organic compounds that could linger for up to a month, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      public health  • Environmental Protection Agency  • retail  • plastic  • scientific study

  • May 2008

    • Clean-Air Changes 'Imperil Parks'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 16, 08 4:33 AM CDT

      Clean-Air Changes 'Imperil Parks'

      Clean air rules likely to be changed this summer are causing serious concerns about future pollution at some of America's most spectacular national parks, reports the Washington Post . The changes will pave the way for 28 new coal-fired power plants near ten parks, according to a report supported by some National Park Service officials . Parks already have "impaired visibility" because of pollution, and the changes represent a major "setback," said one official. More »

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      Environmental Protection Agency  • air pollution  • Henry Waxman  • Clean Air Act  • air quality  • National Park Service

    • EPA Plans Tough New Lead Limits

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 2, 08 2:37 AM CDT

      EPA Plans Tough New Lead Limits

      The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing stringent new regulations on lead  levels in the air, which have remained unchanged for 30 years. Some 23 counties in the US would be out of compliance once the new standards are established. Lead has been linked to developmental and learning problems in children. More »

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      Environmental Protection Agency  • lead  • disability  • Natural Resources Defense Council

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • EPA's New Rules Allow Wetlands Trade-Offs

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 31, 08 3:46 PM CDT

      EPA's New Rules Allow Wetlands Trade-Offs

      The Environmental Protection Agency today issued new wetlands-protection rules with a focus on “mitigation banking”— creating marshes elsewhere in compensation for those destroyed by development, the AP reports. The EPA argues that mitigation banking ensures the most overall wetlands protection because wetlands are often irrevocably damaged by construction, rendering on-site measures to offset the loss useless. More »

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      Bush administration  • environment  • environmentalism  • Environmental Protection Agency  • environmental damage  • wetlands

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