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Environmental Protection Agency stories: 83 news summaries

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EPA Cuts
the Value of a Life by $1M

Statistical trim makes life-saving regulation harder to justify

Jul 11, 08 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Environmental Protection Agency • National Association of Clean Air Agencies • value of a life • environmentalists • Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy • Vanderbilt University

Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate:
EPA Official

VP feared regulations on greenhouse gas

Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Polluting Pentagon 
 Rebuffs EPA Orders 

Pentagon challenges agency's right to order toxic chemical clean up

Jun 30, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

White House Ignored EPA Pollutants Email

Bush & Co. refused to open report mandated by Supreme Court

Jun 25, 08 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

New Shower Curtains Smell Like Cancer

PVC products linked to wide-ranging and long-lasting ills

Jun 12, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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retail • plastic • public health • Environmental Protection Agency • scientific study • PVC • shower curtain • volatile organic compounds • airborne contaminants • OSHA

 Clean-Air Changes
 'Imperil Parks' 

Rules make allow power plants nearby

May 16, 08 4:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Henry Waxman • Clean Air Act • Environmental Protection Agency • air pollution • air quality • National Park Service • Shenandoah National Park • Mesa Verde National Park • Theodore Roosevelt National Park • National Parks Conservation Association

EPA Plans
Tough New
Lead Limits

Safety standards unchanged
for 30 years

May 2, 08 2:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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 • disability • lead • Natural Resources Defense Council • airborne lead • Herculaneum Mo. • Stephen L. Johnson • Marcus Peacock • Clean Air Watch

EPA Scientists Rip Political 'Interference'

Survey finds agency 'under siege' from meddling officials

Apr 24, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency scientists say they have come under political pressure to fudge their findings, the Los Angeles Times reports. More than half the scientists who responded to a survey said they had experienced interference over the last five years. The report from a nonprofit scientists' group describes... More »

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environment • White House • Environmental Protection Agency • scientists • U.S. environmental laws

 National Park, Meet Coal Smog 

Over own experts' objections, EPA moves to allow power plants closer to rec areas

Apr 23, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Environmental Protection Agency is set to change its rules to allow the construction of coal power plants in previously off-limits areas near national parks, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A draft revision to the Clean Air Act would soften standards of pollution in “Class 1” areas (ie, national... More »

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Bush administration • Clean Air Act • Environmental Protection Agency • power plant • coal power • national park • environmental damage

Cars Must
Get 35.7mpg
by 2015

Feds toughen fuel standards by 25%
 

Apr 22, 08 9:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cars will have to get 35.7 miles per gallon by 2015, and trucks will have to get 28.6 under new standards issued by the federal government today. That means a combined average of 31.6mpg, an increase of 25% from current standards, CNN reports. The feds require automakers... More »

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gas • Environmental Protection Agency • mpg • fuel economy • fuel economy standards • cars

Analysis

 Bush Climate Plan 'Too Bad' 

Only carbon caps will turn industry green

Apr 17, 08 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's new climate change policy announced yesterday is "too little, too slow, too late," writes Bryan Walsh of Time. Bush outlined a plan to gradually rein in the growth of US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025—but rejected mandatory international carbon emissions caps unless they also bind... More »

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climate change • greenhouse gases • global warming • Environmental Protection Agency • renewable energy • George W. Bush • carbon emissions • carbon caps • Joseph Lieberman

 Bush to Unveil
 Greenhouse
 Gas Goals 

Ready with targets, no specifics, ahead of Paris talks

Apr 16, 08 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is expected to propose intermediate goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions today on the eve of climate change negotiations in Paris. The goals won't include proposed legislation or specifics on changes needed to reach the targets, reports the Washington Post. He will also reiterate his opposition to... More »

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China • climate change • greenhouse gases • India • global warming • White House • Environmental Protection Agency • Center for American Progress • climate change legislation • George W. Bush • carbon emissions • Electric Reliability Coordinating Council

 Activists Fight Coal, 
 Plant by Plant 

Environmental coalition claims to have killed 65 new facilities

Apr 14, 08 1:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Environmentalists are taking aim at new, high-pollution coal-fired power plants, the Los Angeles Times reports. Whenever a new plant is proposed, lawyers from a coalition of organizations work on killing it any way that they can. "We hope to clog up the system," one said. "It's putting... More »

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climate change • Environmental Protection Agency • Sierra Club • coal power

 Feds Lift Ban on IBM Contracts  

IBM withdraws protest of lost EPA contract

Apr 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The government Thursday lifted a week-old ban that prevented IBM from competing for new federal contracts. In exchange, IBM agreed to withdraw its protest of an $84 million contract with the EPA it lost last year, and to refund any attorney fees and costs the Government Accountability Office paid to... More »

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contracts • IBM • federal investigation • Environmental Protection Agency • computer • government contracts • insider information

States Sue EPA for 'Foot Dragging' on Warming

Coalition aims to force agency to take action on global warming

Apr 3, 08 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - States, cities and environmental groups have teamed up to take on the federal government over global warming, the New York Times reports. The 18-state coalition is aiming to force the EPA to take action in the wake of last year's Supreme Court ruling that the agency should limit vehicle emissions... More »

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greenhouse gases • global warming • Clean Air Act • vehicle emissions • Environmental Protection Agency • US Supreme Court • emissions standards • carbon emissions

IBM Banned from Gov't Contracts

Big Blue probed over alleged insider info that led to fat EPA deals

Apr 1, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US Attorney in Virginia has temporarily barred IBM from pursuing new government contracts while it investigates three 2006 IBM contracts with the EPA, MarketWatch reports. "The basic issue is whether certain information concerning a contract should have been provided to IBM employees by an EPA employee," said... More »

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IBM • federal investigation • Environmental Protection Agency • US Attorney's Office • government contracts • insider information

EPA's New Rules Allow Wetlands Trade-Offs

Developers can destroy if they create others elsewhere; environmentalists dismayed

Mar 31, 08 3:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

Bush Stepped
In to Weaken Ozone Rules

President overruled EPA scientists on pollution guidelines

Mar 14, 08 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush personally intervened this week to loosen the EPA's new guidelines on pollution-causing ozone, the Washington Post reports. By law, separate ozone standards are mandated for protecting the "public health" and the "public welfare," which includes wildlife, parks, and farmland. According to EPA documents, Bush... More »

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Bush administration • environment • Environmental Protection Agency • smog • ozone • executive power • George W. Bush • clean air

 EPA Ignores Advisers
 on Pollution Cap

Sets higher limit than own experts' recommendations

Mar 13, 08 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ignoring the recommendations of its own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday reset standards for pollution-forming ozone from cars and factories at a level critics say may cost thousands of lives. The new cap is lower than the old level but still far above the limit urged by EPA experts,... More »

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pollution • Clean Air Act • nitrogen oxides • Environmental Protection Agency • American Lung Association • smog • ozone • air quality • utilities • Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee • National Association of Clean Air Agencies • Edison Electric Institute

Senate to Hold Drug Water Hearings

Lawmakers press EPA to establish task force on contaminants

Mar 11, 08 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alarmed by an AP story, two top senators vowed yesterday to probe drug traces in US drinking water. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Frank Lautenberg plan to lead hearings next month to "protect our residents and clean up our water supply," Lautenberg said. The first of AP's three... More »

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Congressional investigations • Congressional oversight • Environmental Protection Agency • pharmaceutical • drinking water • Barbara Boxer • water supply

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