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New EPA gasoline standards draw heated comments
By Kyle Smith Jul 3, 2013 9:56 a.m.As Americans gas up for the long holiday weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency is sifting through tens of thousands of comments on a proposed new rule that would set tough new standards for vehicle emissions and fuel quality.
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Anti-Keystone group spends big on DC TV ads
By Keenan Steiner Jun 10, 2013 2:14 p.m.
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Health group airs ad backing Obama EPA nominee
By Jacob Fenton May 21, 2013 3:52 p.m.The American Public Health Administration has begun airing a new TV ad supporting Pres. Obama's nominee for EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy. It's the first time the nonprofit group has aired an ad backing a specific nominee, according to a spokeswoman.
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Why are efforts to regulate potentially hazardous plastics stalled?
By Nancy Watzman Apr 18, 2013 9:51 a.m.In late 2009, when Lisa Jackson, at the time President Barack Obama's new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), invoked a long-existing but never-before-used power to to create a list of "chemicals of concern," the administration appeared to be putting chemical companies on notice that it planned to be aggressive about regulating risks from exposure to the industry's product. Jackson's list included eight of the common plasticizers known as "phthalates" that have been shown to cause to reproductive abnormalities in animal studies and that have also been linked to health problems in humans. They are used in products from vinyl flooring to cable wiring to backpacks, raincoats, and other products -- even sex toys.
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Senate hears from heavy hitters on both sides of fracking debate
By Lindsay Young Jun 19, 2012 4:39 p.m.The effect on the water supply of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking -- a method for extracting heretofore hard to reach natural gas reserves -- has caught national attention, even inspiring a fiercely critical movie. Now, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is looking into the effect of fracking on the air -- and getting an earful from witnesses from organizations on both sides of the debate with long track records in Washington's influence game..
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Business community has its guns aimed at the environment, financial reforms
By Anupama Narayanswamy Feb 9, 2011 12:51 p.m.In a bid to roll back laws and regulations, some passed and some proposed, in the last two years, business conglomerates have targeted a handful of federal agencies -- with the Environmental Protection Agency receiving the bulk of the attention -- in reply to a request by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., calling for industry feedback on which rules the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee should investigate.
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EPA limits chemical accident data citing security concerns
By Chris Hamby Aug 10, 2010 12:03 p.m.It has been 20 years since Congress included provisions in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments to inform citizens of risks from factories using hazardous substances, but the data that details the potential effects of accidents at these sites is largely unavailable to the public.
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Quest for EPA documents reveal deliberate misclassification by agency staff
By Naseem Miller Jun 16, 2010 11:21 a.m.For the past four years, as executive director of Citizen Action New Mexico, Dave McCoy has been hounding the local and federal government for documents.
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OGD: Reviewing EPA's interactive datasets
By Aisha Qidwae Apr 29, 2010 11:20 a.m.The Environmental Protection Agency has been ahead of several other cabinet level agencies when it comes to putting data online. For several years now some of their main datasets are available with interactive features such as maps and in a downloadable format. Now according to EPA’s open government plan, the agency is planning on releasing several new data driven projects by the end of 2010, some of which are already public.
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