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Food Waste Diversion to Smarter Transportation: EPA Awards 22 "Climate Showcase Communities"
The EPA announced yesterday the latest round of grants for climate showcase communities, and the list is filled with some pretty exciting projects.
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New Federal Budget Cuts EPA 16%, Removes Wolves from Endangered Species List
Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it
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How Many Lives & How Much Money Has The Clean Air Act Saved? 160,000 Lives Last Year & Trillions of Dollars
Republicans and a small handful of Democrats in the House of Representatives don't much like the idea that the EPA wants to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, preserving clean air for the United States through
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Goldman Environmental Prize Awards $150K to Clean Air Activism on the Gulf Coast
This year's North American recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize has been spending more than a decade working in his Texas Gulf Coast community to fight for stronger environmental regulations, better
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Battle Over Clean Air Act Behind Looming Government Shutdown
It should be clear to anyone capable of abstract thought that the looming 'government shutdown' is less a battle over spending cuts than one over political ideologies. Multiple reports have been trickling out
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House Votes Yes For Polluters, No To A Clean Environment For The American People
The Senate voted against this yesterday: As expected, the House of Representatives voted yesterday (255-172) to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act--something which was
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House Votes To Deny Climate Change Causes Again, While Senate Supports EPA Authority on Emissions
Alice in Wonderland on the Potomac continues in full force, the sane news first:
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Biggest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Exposed
PNC, Citi, and UBS are the top three financial enablers of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a new report by Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club that ranks ten of the world's largest banks.These
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EPA Boosts Nationwide Radiation Monitoring, Proves Worth to Naysayers
In response to concerns from many Americans that radiation levels were too high in milk, the EPA announced it would be boosting radiation monitoring across the nation in order to ensure that the health and
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The Assault on the EPA & the Clean Air Act Begins Today
It's on -- the bevy of amendments aimed at dismantling the Clean Air Act and stripping the EPA's ability to protect the public from polluters are being taken up in the Senate today. For more information on each of these specific efforts, see the NRDC.
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Latinos Speak Out Against GOP Assault on EPA, Clean Air Act
In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants -- after all, as a group largely
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Newt Gingrich's Flip Flops Reveal GOP's Legacy of Shifting Stances on Climate
Onetime Speaker of the House and full-time GOP thought leader Newt Gingrich is currently considering a run for the presidency. And he's one of the more, well, interesting GOP candidates, when viewed
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Ant-Control Product Sold Online Contained Pesticide Banned in 1978; EPA Issues Warning to Customers
More than 2,800 customers in the U.S. may have purchased an ant-control product that contains a pesticide that was banned in 1978. The product is called Fast Ant Bait, and was found to contain mirex, a pesticide the EPA says
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EPA's New Pollution Rules Take Down Two Dirty Old Coal Plants
This should serve as an indication of how old and toxic some of our nation's coal-fired power plants are: Just a day after the EPA announced its new proposal for limiting the amount of toxic emissions power plants can spew
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EPA Unveils First Nationwide Rules to Limit Toxic Air Pollution from Power Plants
There's a lot of noise on the environmental front right now -- besides the nuclear crisis in Japan, there's an attack on climate science led by US politicians and widespread conflict in the Middle East driving up the price
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Our Air Would Never be this Clean Without the Government
Imagine an alternate American history, one in which the Clean Air & Water Acts were never passed -- despite industry pumping such massive amounts of pollution into our skies, lakes, and rivers that one of
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Rep. Ed Markey to GOP: Do You Plan on Repealing the Law of Gravity, Too? (Video)
Aaand for our dose of Friday afternoon snark, we turn to a source where we might least expect biting sarcasm: from a sitting US Congressman. Yes, in response to the GOP's headlong legislative assault on science itself -- an effort to overturn a
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With EPA & Labor Unions Under Fire, So is US Democracy
There's more to the recent political assault on the EPA than meets the eye -- it goes beyond the 'big government' rhetoric, and beyond political opportunism (though there's plenty of that indeed). But the entire debacle reveals
