Environmental Protection Agency
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Daily Roundup: March 9, 2010
Sierra Club: The Green Life &bull Yesterday
Better Late: Today China and India formally joined the Copenhagen Accord, adding to the more than 100 countries that have signed the three-page agreement to combat rising global temperatures. Spread the Blame: A new study suggests that while China is… Full Story »
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Obama's EPA Socks a Punch to America's Water Resources
Green Fork Blog &bull Mar 9, 2010
Concerns about the impact on water from biofuels production have been voiced before and are becoming louder. A little more than a year ago, then U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Dick Kempthorne, stated: "To reach our ethanol production target of… Full Story »
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Commit to Going Green with the EPA's 'Pick 5 for the Environment'
Planet Green &bull Mar 6, 2010
Life's complicated, and it can be difficult to stick with all the things you plan to do to benefit the environment. But the EPA has a great new program to get Americans to commit and stick with it. Some of… Full Story »
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Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Environment?
Cooking Up A Story: &bull Mar 4, 2010
Once this food gets to the landfill, it then generates methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat within our atmosphere. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, landfills account for 34 percent of… Full Story »
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US EPA to Ease Carbon Rules on Small Businesses
Inhabitat &bull Mar 4, 2010
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified in front of a Senate appropriations subcommittee Wednesday about the EPA's planned carbon permit policy. Last year Jackson told lawmakers the EPA would regulate all businesses with emissions above 25,000 tons per year. Yesterday she… Full Story »
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Lights, Camera, Eco-Action
Sierra Club: The Green Life &bull Mar 3, 2010
Positive change often starts at the community level, and a new video contest sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency will put local activists in the spotlight. The contest, Faces of the Grassroots, offers aspiring eco-filmmakers a chance to win $2,500… Full Story »
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New York City's Gowanus Canal Declared Superfund Hazardous Waste Site
TreeHugger &bull Mar 3, 2010Nearly a year after first being proposed, the Environmental Protection Agency has added Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to the Superfund list of the United States' most contaminated hazardous waste sites. Since it was constructed in the 1860s, the canal has been… Full Story »
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Public utilities differ on gas regulation
Marketplace: Sustainability &bull Feb 26, 2010
A trade group of utilities has backed efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. But that group doesn't speak for all of its members. Jennifer Collins reports. Full Story »
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Guest blog: The President's power tools
1Sky Blog &bull Feb 22, 2010Let's hope this is more than a shot across Congress's bow. We've fallen to a point at which the relationship between the executive and legislative branches is not so much checks and balances as mutual assured gridlock. For several years now, much to the discomfort of leaders as philosophically… Full Story »
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Is your dog bowl safe?
Raise a Green Dog! &bull Feb 22, 2010
The Environmental Working Group also goes on to say..." So if they are having this kind of effect on humans, imagine what they are doing to our little dog bodies! Plastics can also emit dangerous Phthalates, according to the EWG. "These chemicals, called "plasticizers," are a group of industrial chemicals used to make plastics like polyvinyl chloride (PVC) more flexible or resilient and also as solvents. Phthalates are nearly ubiquitous in modern society, found in,… Full Story »
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EPA Issues Tighter Regulation For Existing Stationary Diesel Engines
TreeHugger &bull Feb 19, 2010Victory for Air Quality Just in the US, there are at least 900,000 stationary diesel engines generating electricity, mostly for agricultural and industrial purposes. Taken together, they produce quite a bit of nasty emissions, especially those that run almost 24/7… Full Story »
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Sues EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations
ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip &bull Feb 18, 2010
The Texas governor recently announced plans to sue the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of the state over its decision to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant. I mean, really? REALLY?!! During a press conference, Perry stated that regulating such… Full Story »
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Guest blog: Want jobs? Start solving climate
1Sky Blog &bull Feb 18, 2010From guest blogger Kristen Sheeran , director of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) , a nationwide network of more than 150 economists, developing new arguments for environmental protection with a social justice focus. There is no argument… Full Story »
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Biofuel Production Gets a Boost
Renewable Energy &bull Feb 17, 2010
This month, President Barack Obama announced three actions that the federal government is taking to boost U.S. biofuel production. The measures include: the final rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) of 36 billion gallons by 2022; a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of… Full Story »
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Texas Takes Aim at EPA Regulating CO2 as Pollutant - Files Petition in Court of Appeals
TreeHugger &bull Feb 17, 2010Here's another group opposed to the EPA calling CO2 a danger to human health and potentially regulating it under the Clean Air Act. The US Chamber of Commerce has come out against it (big surprise), and now Reuters reports that… Full Story »
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Will Transparency Curb Carbon Emissions if Cap and Trade Fails?
TreeHugger &bull Feb 17, 2010Is it a possibility that transparency could all but make up for the lack of a mandated cap on carbon emissions? Grist wonders if that could be the case, and takes a closer look at the EPA's newly instated Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule, which requires companies polluting over 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year to… Full Story »
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Daily Roundup: February 16, 2010
Sierra Club: The Green Life &bull Feb 17, 2010
Scarce Salmon: The Sacramento River chinook, California's last healthy salmon run, saw only 39,500 returns to the river this year. It is the third year in a row of what many are calling a shockingly low number of fish. Taking… Full Story »
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New Frontiers: Sustainable Design Innovation Initiative Launches in the UK
TreeHugger &bull Feb 16, 2010For those doubtful about how we can get out of the various sustainability crises we now find ourselves in, financial, social and environmental, I have two words for you: design innovation. When faced with dire situations I think people often tend… Full Story »
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Clicklist: Expected dangers
green LA girl &bull Feb 16, 2010
Freeways: Bad for arteries. California: Expected to burn. A Berkeley team used a computer model of fine-scale weather patterns to predict temperature, wind speed and humidity at 6-kilometre intervals across southern California during Santa Ana wind events, then calculated the… Full Story »
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California moves to list BPA as reproductive toxin
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Feb 15, 2010
Government action on regulating BPA, however, has been coming only at a crawl. Only last month did the U.S. But last week, some good news about BPA regulation finally came from California, when the states Environmental Protection Agency took a… Full Story »
