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A community guide to Stephen Johnson and the Environmental Protection Agency. Stephen Johnson leads the U.S. EPA. Johnson attended Taylor University, receiving a B.A. in biology, and then received a M.S. in pathology from George... [more]
A community guide to Stephen Johnson and the Environmental Protection Agency. Stephen Johnson leads the U.S. EPA. Johnson attended Taylor University, receiving a B.A. in biology, and then received a M.S. in pathology from George Washington University. Before working for the U.S. Government, he held a number of positions in laboratory and bio-technology companies.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency touted an enforcement program that it says cut pollution in the Southeast by 1.2 billion pounds in fiscal 2008. (GGC)
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3 (UPI) -- The US Environmental Protection Agency announced a meeting with China to discuss environmental quality. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson will ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson showcased the fourth generation of Chevrolet's Equinox Fuel Cell Car this September, the newest addition to the agency's vehicle fleet. The new car underscores EPA's support for national efforts to develop clean energy...
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Legislation designed to address global warming failed in Congress this year, largely due to concerns about its high costs and adverse impact on an already weakening economy. The congressional debate will likely resume in 2009, as legislators try again to balance the environmental and economic...
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NASDA submitted comments November 26 strongly opposing proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act because it would amount to a tax on livestock ...
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When taken over the course of many years, arsenic can result in lung, bladder and skin cancers, as well as heart disease, diabetes and neurological damage. In the U.S., many locations are known to have groundwater containing arsenic concentrations in excess of the new Environmental Protection...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 2 signed off on a controversial change in a federal stream buffer zone rule, an environmental law which since 1983 has in theory prohibited surface coal mining ...
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to undo a federal rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it a long-awaited "parting gift" from the Bush administration.North Carolina...
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The U.S Environmental Protection Agency and U.S Army Corps of Engineers released a "revised" guidance to field officials instructing them how to assert Clean Water Act jurisdiction over wetlands, streams, and ...
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Alabama Farmers Federation, the state's largest farm organization, today thanked farmers and consumers throughout the state for their fast and passionate response to an Environmental Protection Agency proposal ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency, rejecting pleas from state governors and environmental groups, signed off Tuesday on making it easier to dump mountaintop mining waste near rivers and streams. But the EPA said it did so because it secured additional safeguards. The governors of Kentucky...
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WASHINGTON,(RushPRNews)12/04/08-The U.S. government announced that there is no food or feed safety concern from an incident in which a small portion of an unauthorized genetically engineered (GE) cotton variety was harvested along with commercially available GE cotton.
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U.S. Senator Richard Shelby has sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson to urge the Agency to reexamine a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the ...
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Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to undo a federal rule that clarifies when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it a long-awaited "parting gift" from the Bush administration.North Carolina-based Appalachian...
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Whether it’s carefully planning holiday meals to avoid excess leftovers or donating unwanted electronics to local charities, the Environmental Protection Agency is offering tips to reduce waste, reuse and recycle products instead of throwing them in the trash.
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Dr. Linda Birnbaum, a federal scientist who has been a senior adviser at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was appointed Wednesday as director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which is in Research Triangle Park.
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Retired miner Chuck Nelson, 57, surveys a mountaintop removal coal mine on Kayford Mountain, West VirginiaThe Bush administration is easing the way for coal companies to dump debris from mountaintop mining into nearby valleys and streams in a move deplored by environmental and Appalachian...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved Monday to curb pollution released by medical waste
incinerators, ending an 11-year battle over how to best regulate the
emissions.
Environmentalists hailed the move as an important
precedent for controlling toxic releases into the air, saying...
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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; briefs] Tuesday in two cases. In Entergy Corp. v. EPA [oral arguments transcript, PDF], the Court heard arguments on whether Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act [text, PDF] authorizes the...
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that environmentalists fear will lead to coal companies burying more Appalachian streams with excess rock and dirt from surface mining. The change rewrites a 1983 rule that...
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The Environmental Protection Agency, rejecting pleas from state governors and environmental groups, signed off Tuesday on making it easier to dump mountaintop mining waste near rivers and streams.
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Washington, D.C. (RushPRnews)12/01/08-EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson is joining other Bush Administration cabinet members for meetings with senior Chinese officials during the fifth session of the US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED V), Dec. 4-5 in Beijing. Johnson also is using the...
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North Carolina -based Appalachian Voices and others blasted Tuesday's Environmental Protection Agency decision to endorse the mining rule as the death of freshwater streams and the likely start of a new surge ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected pleas from state governors and environmental groups, signing off on making it easier to dump mountaintop mining waste near rivers and streams. But the EPA said it did so because it ...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has an aqueous analog to the well established ENERGY STAR® program. The 2-year old WaterSense® is a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is the symbol for water-efficient products, services and practices...
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A licence for a waste incinerator at Poolbeg has been granted by the Environmental Protection Agency today.
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"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The White House and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed off Tuesday on plans to revoke parts of a key water quality rule that could have been used to limit the burial of streams by mountaintop removal coal mining operations.
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By CORNELIA DEAN The Environmental Protection Agency must revise its approach to assessing environmental health hazards and other risks, because current ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency, rejecting pleas from environmental groups and governors including Kentucky's Steve Beshear, signed off yesterday on making it easier for operators to dump mountaintop-mining waste near rivers and streams. But the EPA said it did so because it secured...
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Six U.S. senators have weighed in on the debate over the extent of an ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analysis of greenhouse-gas emissions produced by biofuels, writing a letter to agency Administrator Stephen Johnson urging the agency ...
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday will open to the public a meeting about groundwater contamination in the Lower Valley. The EPA initially said the meeting was exclusively for regulatory agencies and would be closed to the public.
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The Environmental Protection Agency moved yesterday to curb pollution released by medical waste incinerators, ending an 11-year battle over how to best regulate the emissions.
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration Tuesday that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks left from mining. The 1983 rule prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop removal mining within 100 feet of...
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Triangle - Chapel Hill , NC , November 21, 2008 – On November 25 th , 2008 at 1:30pm the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will recognize the Vanguard Homes’ “Sensibly Green” Concept Home as the first home in the country to be WaterSense ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining. The 1983 rule prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop removal mining within 100 feet of streams...
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3--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency should be in charge of protecting the state's waterways from pollution, whether that pollution comes from a ...
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Despite vocal opposition from environmental groups, the public and politicians, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed a stream-buffer-zone rule that — since 1983 — had prohibited surface coal-mining activities within 100 feet of flowing streams. Opponents say the repeal clears the way for...
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SILVER CITY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has built berms to direct runoff away from San Vicente Creek to keep old mine tailings at a century-old Silver City smelter from washing into the creek.
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"The Environmental Protection Agency moved yesterday to curb pollution released by medical waste incinerators, ending an 11-year battle over how to best regulate the emissions.
Environmentalists hailed the move as an important precedent for controlling toxic releases into the air, saying EPA...
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RepowerAmerica is asking the general public to step forward and let the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) know its concerns over carbon dioxide regulation. The deadline to submit your comments is Friday night.
From the desk of Cathy Zoi, CEO, RepowerAmerica.org:
In April 2007 the U.S...
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EPA Cleaning up the Mess “Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration’s most intense scientific...
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By Kathy Helms WINDOW ROCK — The US Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the potential health risks of formaldehyde use in ...
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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has certified two engines for sale in the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback, indicating the car will be offered initially only in Ralliart and GTS variants.
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11:20 a.m. Dec. 2 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a Finding of Violation to the U.S. Navy Base Guam for permit violations under the federal Clean Water Act.
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Emerging as a formidable candidate for Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is Bill Matsikoudis , the Jersey City Corporation Counsel and a former Assistant Counsel to Gov.
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Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental controver...
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Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc.
today announced it has received its commercial permit in the U.S. from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 to commercially store and dispose of radioactive Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB's) at the Company's Diversified...
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The federal Environmental Protection Agency has been considering a change in regulations that would permit the giant coal-fired power plants in the Midwest to produce more pollution. These are the same plants that already pollute the Northeast's air through their release of fine particulate...
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President-elect Barack Obama will soon make two appointments critical to the welfare of our nationa s fish and wildlife: Secretary of the Interior and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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WASHINGTON — Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation after Barack Obama becomes president as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush ...
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Construction groups are pleased that proposed new Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for pol lutant discharges from construction sites would rely more on “best management practices” for sediment and erosion control than on numeric limits on sediment in stormwater runoff. Under the...
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Illinois students in the fifth and sixth grades can enter the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's annual Poster, Poetry and Prose Contest, according to a news release.
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Opponents of Glade Reservoir were buoyed last week by a blistering Environmental Protection Agency review of the Northern Integrated Supply Project, which they said could delay or doom the project.
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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice are in settlement negotiations with Tom Springer, owner of Watertown Tire Recyclers, LLC, who currently owes more than $1 million in clean up costs for a tire fire that destroyed his business more than 3 1/2 years ago.
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Alan Steinberg, the West Orange resident who serves as New York and New Jersey's regional administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, said he sees the possibility of greater cooperation ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiates rule-making to regulate formaldehyde in pressed-wood products. The action comes as Congress investigates a scandal over extremely high formaldehyde levels in mobile homes provided to hurricane victims by the federal government.
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One of the companies accused of polluting the drinking water in the Rialto area has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency saying the agency is withholding evidence that supports the company's case.
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GILLETTE - The Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for reducing methane gas emissions into the atmosphere each year since 1996.
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(By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post) Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense...
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"The Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisers have warned the agency that it should delay final action on its decision not to set a federal drinking-water standard for perchlorate, a chemical in rocket fuel, because the computer model underlying the decision may have flaws.
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Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter ...
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Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved what the LA Times called “a tough new rule” against lead in the air. But the paper is now reporting that federal documents confirm that the Bush administration amended the rule quietly, releasing a number of lead polluters from the...
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To the general public, President-elect Obama's impending choice of the next Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) probably lacks the sense of urgency or drama of other cabinet selections. But for the regulated community and environmentalists alike...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for reducing methane gas emissions into the atmosphere each year since 1996.
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A conservation group and citizens including two Bay Area mayors sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco Tuesday in a bid to stop a possible resumption of apple moth ...
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A proposed Environmental Protection Agency tax on livestock operations would be devastating to Nebraska's billion dollar livestock industry, according to Dave Wright, president of the Independent Cattlemen of Nebraska.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy are helping states to increase their energy efficiency.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today showcased the fourth generation of Chevrolets Equinox Fuel Cell Car, the newest addition to the agencys vehicle fleet. The new car underscores EPAs support for national efforts to develop clean energy technologies and...
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A new proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency would devastate Nebraska's multi-million dollar livestock industry and cause food prices to escalate, according to officials with the Independent Cattlemen ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency says the Kansas City, Kan., Board of Public Utilities is facing millions of dollars in fines for violating federal clean air laws.
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