From docuticker.com
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EPA Releases Guide to Help Scientists Understand Children’s Exposure to Pollutants
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a user-friendly document to help risk assessors understand how children are exposed to pollution. The document, titled “Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook,” serves as a quick-reference guide to the more comprehensive [...]
- EPA, group look to settle lawsuit over Utah rules (personalinjurylawnews.com)
- U.S. EPA Makes Available Data on Compliance with Hazardous Waste, Air... (lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu)
- Frontier refinery plans to fight $6.8M EPA fine (sfgate.com)
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide — a move that would clean up the air for millions of Americans and bring some relief to people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.
From contracostatimes.com
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- EPA proposes sulfur dioxide limits for first time since 1971 (McClatchy... (rss.news.yahoo.com)
- EPA May Regulate Sulfur Dioxide Emissions on Hourly Basis (environmentalleader.com)
Is it possible that
the Environmental Protection Agency might finally be getting serious
about providing some protection for Appalachia's environment and
people?
by Jim Hightower
Could it be? Dare we think it? Is it possible that the Environmental Protection Agency might finally be getting serious about providing some protection for Appalachia's environment and people? For more than a...
From csindy.com
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- Dec 3: EPA Public Information Meeting About Gowanus Clean Up (onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com)
- EPA head to visit New Orleans (news.google.com)
In 1950, 8 million people lived in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.Today, 17 million people live there, with 130,000 new residents moving in each year.According to Bob Koroncai of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, each and every one of those residents is responsible for nearly choking the life ...
From local.lancasteronline.com
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- EPA Reports Fifth Consecutive Annual Increase in US New Vehicle Fuel Economy... (greencarcongress.com)
- First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US (freerepublic.com)
- Participate in 'No Impact Week' to lighten your carbon footprint (news.google.com)
WASHINGTON (November 23, 2009) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final rule that will help protect America’s waterways from pollution from construction sites. This rule was issued in response to a 2004 lawsuit against the EPA filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2006, a U.S. Federal District Court in Central California ordered the EPA to issue a final rule ...
From personalinjurylawnews.com
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- Fuel economy up, CO2 down: U.S. EPA (canadiandriver.com)
DAYTON - Making the 100-acre Valleycrest Landfill safer and ready for redevelopment could cost anywhere from $25 million to $44 million, according to estimates and clean-up scenarios submitted to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
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From daytondailynews.com
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The Environmental Protection Agency, as it promised it would do, is moving ahead to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in the absence of Congressional action, Reuters reports.
When the EPA came out with its endangerment finding on CO2 and the Clean Air Act, the Obama Administration signaled to Congress that it should adopt emissions-limiting legislation, in order [...]
From environmentalleader.com
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- EPA Sends Final CO2 Endangerment Finding to Obama as Climate Debate Heats Up... (lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu)
- EPA sends CO2 endangerment finding to the White House (wattsupwiththat.com)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing on the proposed greenhouse gas emissions thresholds defining when Clean Air Act permits would apply to new or existing industrial facilities. This program would cover nearly 70 percent of the nation’s total GHG emissions from stationary sources. The nation’s largest facilities, including power plants, refineries, [...]
From lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu
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- EPA's greenhouse gases finding to White House (topix.net)
President Obama, White House Climate Czar Carol Browner, and their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not waiting for Congress to pass cap-and-trade.
The enormous grassroots reaction to the outrageous Waxman-Markey energy tax bill passing the U.S. House has slowed Senate progress to a crawl. While cap-and-trade remains a major threat (especially with new "tri-partisan" negotiations betweens Senators Graham, Kerry, and Lieberman), the...
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From nhinsider.com
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials have launched an investigation of Massey Energys Bee Tree Mine, the mountaintop removal operation where local citizen groups had hoped to instead locate a wind-energy facility. EPA in...
From wvgazette.com
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- EPA considers upgrading ratings of Mason coal-ash dams (wvgazette.com)

