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US Environmental Protection Agency

Type: Organization

Name: US Environmental Protection Agency (U S Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, United States Environmental Protection Agency)

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for U S Environmental Protection Agency

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 2 reports

Whirlpool Corporation

Whirlpool tests for contaminants

Firm testing for signs of contaminantsBLADE STAFF WRITERWorkers prepare to take a soil sample at the former Whirlpool Park as part of an examination of the property for contamination at the park near Clyde, Ohio. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER Enlarge | Buy ... [Published Toledoblade.com - 26 mins ago]

Entities: Whirlpool Corporation, Contaminate, Green Springs (United States), US Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 2 reports

Sierra Club

Public Service Co. of Oklahoma touts 'Oklahoma solution' to regional haze as industrial consumers fear costs

Calling it an "Oklahoma solution" that uses state-produced energy resources, representatives of Tulsa-based utility Public Service Co. of Oklahoma urged environmental officials Monday to approve a plan that phases out its last two coal units at a power ... [Published Individual.com - 29 mins ago]

Entities: Coal, Environment, US Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

Crisis-hit Argentine biodiesel sector eyes U.S. market

Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in “crisis” due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina’s main biofuels chamber said on Monday.The head of the ... [Published Globe and Mail - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Biodiesel, Argentina, US Environmental Protection Agency, United States, Biofuels

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

All Great Bay polluters need to pay their share

Portsmouth, Exeter, Newmarket, Durham and Dover are all working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the amount of nitrogen entering Great Bay from wastewater treatment plants. ... [Published Portsmouth Herald - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Pollution, Wastewater Treatment, Nitrogen

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

Bill Shuster

Route 219 expansion approved by the EPA

Rep. Shuster: One permit required for project to beginSave |Officials are hoping to secure one final permit before construction to improve and expand Route 219 can begin.The Environmental Protection Agency informed the Army Corps of Engineers that the ... [Published Altoona Mirror - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Bill Shuster, US Environmental Protection Agency, Construction, Army Corps, Meyersdale (United States)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

'Fiddling While the World Burns:' A Faithful Response to Partisan Gridlock

Last week, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million – nearly 15 percent over what many scientists estimate is a safe level. Amid this and other crises in creation, the Environmental Protection Agency needs a strong ... [Published Sojourners - 6 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

EPA awards $12 million in cleanup grants to New England

May 20, 2013 Franky Hunter | American City and CountyComments 0New England has been awarded $12 million from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields Grants program to clean up contaminated areas.Brownfields Grants give communities the ... [Published American City & County - 6 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, England, Brownfields (United States)

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 reports

Monsanto, Bayer seek answers to bee losses

Steve Corniffe collects honey produced by bees in Homestead, Fla. Scientists, honey bee owners and now the big pesticide makers attempting to discern what is causing bees to succumb to the colony collapse disorder.Monsanto is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer ... [Published NBCNews.com - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Pesticide, Monsanto Company, Bayer AG

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 reports

Exposure to traffic pollution increases asthma severity in pregnant women

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA ? Air pollutants from traffic are associated with increased asthma severity levels in pregnant asthmatic women, according to a new study."Air pollution is a known trigger for asthma symptoms," said lead author Janneane Gent, PhD, ... [Published EurekAlert! - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Exposure (Health), Wheeze, Nitrogen Dioxide, Carbon

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Florida; Infrastructure Requirements for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve in part, and disapprove in part, the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submission, submitted by the State of Florida, through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on October 31, 2011, to demonstrate ... [Published Zecco - 20 hours ago]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Ozone, New Source Review (Clean Air Act), Permitting

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 3 reports

LETTER: EPA nominee would stand up for clean air and water

As mercury pollution threatens our waterways and carbon pollution-fueled climate change worsens extreme weather, we need someone in Washington who knows how to get things done. That’s why I’m asking our U.S. senators to support Gina McCarthy’s nomination ... [Published Gaston Gazette - May 19 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Snipe, Mercury, Carbon, Gastonia (United States)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Hope and Fear: Obama into 2014

Obama has nationalized American health care, flagrantly failed to enforce American immigration law, reduced American freedom, and burdened America with an unsustainable debt. The president uses the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote his ... [Published Newsvine - May 19 2013]

Entities: Federal Communications Commission, US Environmental Protection Agency, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY, Muslim Brotherhood

Quotes

...for the billions of dollars of implementation costs for the plan," said Tom Schroedter, Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers' executive director. "If approved and implemented, this SIP (state implementation plan) will result in the largest single rate increase, to my knowledge, ever for PSO's customers in the company's 100-year history."

Public Service Co. of Oklahoma touts 'Oklahoma solution' to regional haze as industrial consumers ... [Published Individual.com - 29 mins ago]

"Air pollution does not stop at the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, so it is important for us to have national standards in order to protect everybody in all of our surrounding states" he said

McCarthy Nomination for EPA Head: Environment Over Politics [Published Public News Service - 40 mins ago]

"For that, she is being held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. The Department of Justice is committed to environmental justice and will vigorously prosecute those who victimize vulnerable communities.”"

OSHA Impostor Gets Prison Term [Published PaintSquare - 1 hour ago]

Meanwhile, Foster's Daily Democrat agreed with Seacoast Media, and added that, in 2012, "then candidate Shea-Porter sat silent while then Gov. John Lynch and U S Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ? both Democrats ? joined U S Sen. Kelly Ayotte and then U S Rep. Frank Guinta ? both Republicans ? in seeking compromise." When the newspaper endorsed Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, in 2012, one of the reasons it did so was his commitment to address the Great Bay issue

Great Bay deserves representation in fight with EPA [Published Exeter NewsLetter - 1 hour ago]

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Whirlpool tests for contaminants [Published Toledoblade.com - 26 mins ago]
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma touts 'Oklahoma ... [Published Individual.com - 29 mins ago]
1-800-GO-VAPOR.com to Market Toxic-Free Vapor S... [Published PRWeb - 34 mins ago]
McCarthy Nomination for EPA Head: Environment O... [Published Public News Service - 40 mins ago]
Greenfield looking at options for Lunt property [Published Recorder.com - 1 hour ago]
Thermal or Catalytic? [Published Chemical Processing.com - 1 hour ago]
OSHA Impostor Gets Prison Term [Published PaintSquare - 1 hour ago]
All Great Bay polluters need to pay their share [Published Portsmouth Herald - 1 hour ago]
Great Bay deserves representation in fight with... [Published Exeter NewsLetter - 1 hour ago]
CSPA 2013 Mid-Year Meeting Draws Nearly 500 to ... [Published CSPA - 1 hour ago]
Local design tweaks help raise LEAF’s fuel econ... [Published Hybrid-EV - 1 hour ago]
Air and noise pollution raise cardiovascular risk [Published TruthDive - 2 hours ago]
25 years ago: Proposed riverfront project to be... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - 2 hours ago]
US EPA Lifts Suspension and Proposed Debarment ... [Published Individual.com - 2 hours ago]
Public Service Co. of Oklahoma touts 'Oklahoma ... [Published NewsOK.com - 2 hours ago]
Owner of former American Motors Detroit site be... [Published Detroit News - 2 hours ago]
Route 219 expansion approved by the EPA [Published Altoona Mirror - 2 hours ago]
Today in History, May 21, 2013 [Published Record-Journal.com - 2 hours ago]
Route 219 south project clears hurdle [Published Pittsburgh Tribune Review - 3 hours ago]
Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig gr... [Published Reuters - 3 hours ago]
Lynchburg looks to build better streets [Published Lynchburg News and Advance - 3 hours ago]
Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig gr... [Published London South East - 3 hours ago]
Winsted brownfield solutions discussed as loan ... [Published Register Citizen - 3 hours ago]
This Day in History for May 21 [Published Erie Times-News - 3 hours ago]
House to Vote on Expediting Keystone XL Pipeline [Published Breakbulk - 3 hours ago]
City approves plan to update sewer system [Published WCIA 3 - 4 hours ago]
Dioxin cleanup under way in Midland; EPA wants ... [Published Bay City Times - 4 hours ago]
America’s railroads: Conservers of energy, frie... [Published Railway Age - 4 hours ago]
Industry Groups Urge Supreme Court To Ban EPA F... [Published SPi World News - 5 hours ago]
Final Route 219 permit expected this week [Published Daily American - 5 hours ago]

Blogs

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'Fiddling While the World Burns:' A Faithful Re... [Published God's Politics Blog - 7 hours ago] Last week, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million – nearly 15 percent over what many scientists estimate is a safe level. Amid this and other crises in creation, the Environmental Protection Agency needs a ...
7 Very Wrong Things About Climate Science And E... [Published Think Progress - 9 hours ago] Rep. Lamar Smith, the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that contains several misrepresentations of fact. He argued for increased fossil fuel production, against the scientific consensus ...
Culture of Intimidation [Published Breitbart Feed - 12 hours ago] With new reports today that the Obama Department of Justice leaked documents intended to smear a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, it is now more obvious than ever that this administration has, in the words of Senate Minority ...
Study finds air pollution and noise pollution e... [Published Green Car Congress - 12 hours ago] Both fine-particle air pollution and noise pollution may increase a person’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to German researchers who have conducted a large population study, in which both factors were considered simultaneously. ...
The Arctic This Week: 11 May 2013 – 17 May 2013 [Published The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar S ... - 13 hours ago] !--[if gte mso 9]>0false18 pt18 pt00falsefalsefalse<![endif]--> By Tom Fries , Kevin Casey & Maura Farrell The Arctic This Week 2013:19Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here . Thanks for joining us this week! We hope you find TATW useful and ...

Audio/Video

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Rep. Capps' Questions, Hearing on "The Fiscal Y... [Published Committee on Energy and Commerce - YouTube Channel - 13 hours ago]
Dr. Burgess at Committee: The Fiscal Year 2014 ... [Published Rep. Michael C Burgess - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Hearing on "The Fiscal Year 2014 Environmental ... [Published Committee on Energy and Commerce - YouTube Channel - May 16 2013]
Republicans Block EPA Nominee [Published Senator Bernie Sanders - YouTube Channel - May 09 2013]
Sen. Whitehouse: Confirm Gina McCarthy as EPA A... [Published Senator Sheldon Whitehouse - YouTube Channel - Apr 11 2013]

Press Releases

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Solvay’s Solkane® 365/227 Blends Receive EPA SN... [Published EON Manufacturing - 16 hours ago]
Solvay’s Solkane® 365/227 Blends Receive EPA SN... [Published Business Wire Manufacturing News - 16 hours ago]
Suffering from Allergies or Asthma Attacks? Pes... [Published Business Wire - May 16 2013]
EPA’s Effort to Regulate Cathode Ray Tube Recyc... [Published Business Wire - May 16 2013]
Mace Security International, Inc. has Suspensio... [Published EON Environment - May 16 2013]