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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

Clarke Morrison * CMorrison@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * published July 22, 2008 12:31 pm ASHEVILLE The Tennessee Valley Authority routinely violated the Clean Air Act by renovating and expanding old power plants ...

Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk. Use the microwave to cook small meals.

GREEN BAY - David Dolan, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay associate professor of natural and applied sciences, received a $285,463 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to head a project that will ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to award approximately $3.4 million in grants to establish projects using emerging technologies to reduce emissions from the nation's existing fleet of diesel ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it has $3.4 million in grant funds for projects using new technology to reduce existing diesel engine emissions.

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency completed its testing at a second site on Friday.

GOP Governor Rick Perry's quest to curb the nation's ethanol appetite is gaining him some unlikely allies.

An American life just isn't worth what it used to be. At least that's according to a study the Environmental Protection Agency performs called the "value of a statistical life?" This study asserts that an ...

The state is likely to approve a permit allowing Waterbury to discharge effluent from its wastewater plant that has not been fully treated over the next few weeks.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined a Houston-based landscaping service company $12,300 for causing two pesticides to enter a tributary of the Klamath River after employees failed to follow pesticide ...

The Evansville Environmental Protection Agency and the Vanderburgh County Health Department Ozone Office has extended the ozone alert issed on Wednesday through Saturday.