Tag: Epa - Page 14
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US Researchers Document 84% Drop In Childrens' Blood Lead Levels - There's Regulatory Work Left To Finish The Job
The Billings Gazette covered a recent report from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) researchers, documenting that "just
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Big Automakers Giving Up the Fight Over Tailpipe Emission Standards?
Yesterday, the EPA held a hearing to debate whether California and 13 other states should be allowed to regulate tailpipe emissions. And guess who skipped out on the event? The big automakers. All of them. That's right, not a
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11 Good Decisions From the Obama Administration
Watching the decisions come out of the Obama Administration so far has been very exciting - they're serious about clean energy and
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Top 10 US Cities With the Most Energy Star Rated Commercial Buildings: EPA
For those fond of top ten lists and energy efficiency, the EPA has just released its list of the US cities with the most commercial buildings earning Energy Star ratings in 2008. EPA is quick to point out that
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EPA Holds The Key To Clean Cars
I'm a 40-something who doesn't own a car. I live in San Francisco and manage to get around quite well using the various public transportation options available to me
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Bush EPA's Standards for Pollutants Found to be "Contrary to Law"
It's been a bad couple weeks for the Bush EPA's legacy. Key decisions the agency made and the standards it set have already been reconsidered, reversed, and righted. And now, the most blunt (and legally binding) smackdown of
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Obama EPA May Regulate CO2 for the First Time Ever
The new incarnation of the EPA isn't wasting any time making headlines—in the last week alone, it announced that it's reconsidering a key Bush era ruling, and it's filed a massive lawsuit on a Louisiana coal plant to get it to
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EPA Sues Louisiana Coal-Fired Power Plant to Install Required Pollution Controls, Seeks Civil Damages
Yesterday Brian asked whether the new EPA will be tougher on coal and, seemingly on clockwork, the EPA answered: Announcing that it would be filing a lawsuit against Louisiana Generating, a subsidiary of NRG Energy for violations of
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Will the New EPA be Tougher on Coal?
Following the EPA's stance on coal-fired power plants during the final months of the Bush Administration was enough to make you dizzy: first, it stated in November that emissions from plants should indeed be regulated. Their
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The Top 10 Greenest US Presidents
Who were the 10 greenest US presidents? Any attempt to answer that question is sure to be met with controversy—as is any list that groups together Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, and George W. Bush for any
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Who's Who on Obama's Green Team: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA
Continuing with profiles of President Obama's Green Team, we turn to head of the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson. Compared to some of the other agency heads, Jackson has a divided opinion surrounding her. While being praised by some
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Planet Hazard: Mapping Air Pollutants in the U.S.
Pinning Polluters to the Map The Planet Hazard website takes data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and makes it easy to read by putting it up on Google maps. Because is maps 86,320 polluters, browsing the data can be a bit overwhelming, but
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Obama Administration Will Let States Set Auto Emissions Standards
In a marked break from his predecessor, President Barack Obama will today direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve requests made by California and 13 other states to establish strict new auto emission and
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Fast Company on the Real Story Behind Bisphenol A
David Case writes a remarkable article in Fast Company on the politics of Bisphenol A (BPA), subtitled:
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EPA Gets Coal Ash Hazardous Waste Regulation Do Over in Obama Presidency (Video)
Unless you haven’t seen any coverage of the TVA coal ash spill in Tennessee, you can safely ignore the one minute background on this clip, but pay attention after that. The rest goes into how the US almost had coal ash regulation as a hazardous waste
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Obama EPA Head Nominee Lisa Jackson Says She'll Put Science Back Into the Agency
Considering the less than stellar record of the EPA under the Bush Administration, I suppose virtually anyone that Barack Obama might propose will be a vast improvement. Well, in Lisa Jackson's confirmation hearings this week some statements were
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Scorecard for Alternative Transport Energy Ranks Wind-Electric First, Ethanol In Last Place
A recent research report by Mark Jacobson (pictured), updated and available for public review in Energy And Environmental Science, ranks several alternative transportation energy sources against key criteria. Among the criteria used, are those
