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1 hr ago | The Washington Post

EPA's greenhouse gases finding to White House

By Juliet Eilperin The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final scientific finding on greenhouse gases to the White House, agency officials said Monday, a step that could trigger regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

5 hrs ago | Public Works .com

U.S. EPA Takes Action Against San Francisco "Muni" following...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking action against the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency following federal violations of the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

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Related Topix: Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA

Mon Nov 09, 2009

WUSA9.com Washington, DC

Left-Overs Become Green Energy

While many see restaurant leftovers as trash, a San Francisco-area utility sees them as a source of energy.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, San Francisco, CA, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Everything Alabama

Mobile, other Gulf Coast ports, closed by Coast Guard as Ida approaches

The Coast Guard's captain of the port in Mobile announced this afternoon that the Coast Guard has established "Port Condition Zulu," essentially closing the ports of Gulfport, Miss.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Mobile; Pensacola, Fla.; and Panama City, Fla.; to all vessel traffic except for vessel movements and activities specifically authorized by the ...

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Related Topix: Biloxi Metro, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ida

WJZ-TV Baltimore

EPA To Release Chesapeake Draft Strategy

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law

McClatchy DC

Ex-OSHA official says agency let employers underreport injuries

Bob Whitmore, a former federal OSHA official who contends the government has allowed companies to underreport workplace injuries, has filed a complaint alleging he was fired from his job in retaliation for speaking out about his agency's failings.

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Related Topix: OSHA, Law

The Post Chronicle

Pennsylvania Lawsuit Says Drilling Polluted Water

A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Washington County, PA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law

WBUR-AM Boston

Researchers Get Dirty To Clean Up Chesapeake

America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, remains polluted and sick despite decades of clean-up efforts that cost billions of dollars.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Earth Times

Cal/OSHA Honors Gallo Family Vineyards: First Ag Business to Receive Distinguished Safety Award

What: To recognize Gallo Family Vineyards and it's Farm Labor Contractors as the first in the agricultural industry to receive the Cal/OSHA Golden Gate Partnership Award Who: When: November 5, 2009 11:00 a.m. Where: Gallo Family Vineyards 3387 Dry Creek Road Healdsburg, CA 95448 Why: To acknowledge Gallo Family Vineyards and its Farm Labor ...

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Related Topix: OSHA, Vineyards, FL, Law

KRVN-AM Lexington

Cattlemen Urge EPA Not to Regulate Agriculture Out of Business

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is criticizing flawed and inconclusive science in an Environmental Protection Agency review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter .

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law, Agriculture, Science

KTIC

EPA Looks to Control Spray Drift

The Environmental Protection Agency has rolled out proposed guidance for new pesticide labeling to reduce off-target spray and dust drift.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law

Tahlequah Daily Press

STIR wants watershed study before new sewage plant opens

A new sewage plant in Arkansas that violates the Clean Water Act will further pollute Oklahoma's scenic Illinois River, and sewage from the plant should not be discharged until a scientific study of the watershed is completed, a Tahlequah based conservation organization said in an appeal filed this week.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, Law

Rock Hill Herald

GOP's Graham steps out on limb on climate change

When it comes to combating global warming, Sen. Lindsey Graham is right where he loves to be - ahead of the curve, in the mix on a major issue, at the table for high-level, bipartisan talks behind closed doors.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, John Kerry, Democrat, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Autoblog

2010 Honda Accord Crosstour to start at $29,670

Honda has already given us some wheel time with the Crosstour, so keep your eyes peeled for our review at noon Eastern today.

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Related Topix: Honda Accord, Honda, Law

KMOV-TV Saint Louis

Years later, Mo. pollutants fear prompts retesting

In the 1970s, Russell Bliss used his own land in west St. Louis County as a dumping ground for dioxin and other pollutants.

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Related Topix: St Louis County, MO, Wildwood, MO, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

KTIV-TV Sioux City

EPA researcher to speak at UNO

A researcher with the Environmental Protection Agency will talk about education during a lecture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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Related Topix: Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE Metro

WOWK-TV

Coal, Rahall Caught in Political Vice

West Virginia Congressman Nick Rahall II -- the loyal Democrat and friend of labor -- is squarely between those who want to restructure the American economy and those who see coal and affordable energy as critical to the nation's strength.

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Related Topix: West Virginia, US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

It's Getting Hot In Here

Blowing up our clean energy future

Last week, blasting began on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. This is a part of the country where dynamite routinely goes offa 'turning the regiona TMs historic mountain ranges into dust for the tiny coal seams that lie beneath their surface.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Tsunami, Natural Disasters, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Despite U-M dioxin study, EPA appears determined to waste money and time on soil removal

The latest U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meeting and their efforts to marginalize the University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study has to leave one wondering what's next in this endless parade of bureaucratic roadblocks.

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law, Opinion

Clover Herald

House votes to strengthen chem plant security

The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

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Related Topix: Law, US Politics, US News, James Oberstar, US House of Representatives, Democrat

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