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1 hr ago | WNED.org

Maine wages fight against toxic chemicals

Hannah Pingree was so alarmed when she learned she had dangerously high levels of mercury, arsenic and other toxic chemicals in her body that she took her case to the Maine state legislature and challenged ...

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

5 hrs ago | KNTV San Jose

Smokie Skies Return To Bay Area

Although firefighters have declared 98 percent containment on the more than 2,000 wildfires sparked by lightning in June, smoke from the remaining 27 active fires returned today to parts of the Bay Area.

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

9 hrs ago | 2NEWS.TV

N. Idaho roads district, utility settle with EPA

A northern Idaho highway district, utility and a construction company paid nearly $15,000 to settle allegations they violated the federal Clean Water Act by failing to protect waters downstream from a ...

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

Fri Jul 25, 2008

WSLS

Environmentalists challenge power plant permits

Environmentalists are challenging the state's approval of a $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia.

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Related Topix: Wise County, VA, Law

KTVU

EPA Tests For Toxic Fumes At Day Care Center

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began testing the air inside several Oakland homes, a business and a day care center Friday that were located near the former home of Lane Metal Finishers, an abandoned ...

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

Health Scout

Health Tip: Reduce Pesticide Exposure

Pesticides can help keep your home free of insects, rodents and other unwanted visitors, but exposure to these products can pose serious health risks.

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

WNED.org

Paterson Signs Brownfields Program

BUFFALO Governor Paterson has signed a new brownfields program into law. During a visit to Buffalo Wednesday, Paterson signed legislation to clean up the state's mass of contaminated former industrial sites.

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Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Law

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Boxer: Public needs to see EPA findings on threat of greenhouse gases

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the White House in December that high levels of manmade heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen.

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Related Topix: Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law, Global Warming

Thu Jul 24, 2008

WOKY-AM Greenfield

EPA Won't Regulate 11 Water Contaminants

Eleven potential drinking water contaminants will not be regulated, the Environmental Protection Agency determined Thursday.

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

WMC-TV Memphis

Senators object to impending Yazoo pumps veto

Just when it looked like the Yazoo Backwater Project was dead, Mississippi's senators are trying to bring it back from the brink.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Roger Wicker, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law

CourierPostOnline

Laurel Springs man, firm guilty in bid-rigging case

A Laurel Springs man and his company pleaded guilty Wednesday to bid-rigging, fraud and tax charges, officials said.

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Related Topix: Laurel Springs, NJ, Law

Small Times

A regulatory blueprint for nanotech oversight

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 A regulatory blueprint for nanotech oversight PR Newswire WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Former EPA Official Highlights Shortcomings of Current Federal ...

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law, Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, Food and Drug Administration

Kksf.com

Official Contradicts White House CA Emmissions Plan

A former U.S. official has contradicted claims that a decision to block California's stringent emissions plan was not influenced by the White House.

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

Thoughts About K4D

Is the Department of Labor sacrificing health of workers for corporate profits?

Extracts: Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job ...

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, US News, OSHA

Wed Jul 23, 2008

Boston.com

Farm labor contractor fined in worker's death

The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation.

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Related Topix: Weather, Wine, Drink, Merced Metro, Law

WXOW-TV La Crosse

States win court fight with EPA on ship discharges

Environmental groups and several states say they have a won court battle over a federal rule that allowed some dumping of ballast contaminated with invasive species by large commercial ships in coastal ports ...

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Related Topix: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Law, York, PA, York Metro

Ithaca Journal

New law will help efforts to clean up and redevelop polluted sites

ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson is scheduled to sign legislation this afternoon that will provide more incentives to clean up polluted sites, cap tax credits for redevelopment to limit the state's liability and ...

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Related Topix: Albany Metro, Buffalo Metro, Healthcare Law, Law

Environmental News Bits

Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA Warns

Read the full story in the Washington Post. Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday - issuing its warnings about ...

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

The Huffington Post

White House Nixed California's Tougher Air Quality Standards

The Environmental Protection Agency told the Bush administration that by law California should be able to set air-quality standards that were tougher than federal law, but President Bush rejected the advice and ...

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Related Topix: US News, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California, California Government, Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, George Bush

Tue Jul 22, 2008

96.1 KISS FM

PCB's In Water Supply

"DRINK AT YOUR OWN RISK". THAT IS WHAT THE EPA IS ADVISING AFTER DRINKING WATER TESTED POSITIVE FOR P-C-B's IN SEVERAL HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITIES INCLUDING IN POUGHKEEPSIE, PORT EWEN AND RHINEBECK.

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

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