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17 Feb 2012, 1:59 am
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - using recommendations from a series of independent panels - set the limit for public drinking water at 10 parts per billion (ppb). [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 12:00 pm
  Officials from the agency also participated in the much-publicized briefings with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in October and December 2011. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 11:01 am
In November of last year, the Environmental Protection Agency released its Plan to Study the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 12:31 pm by Andrew Ramonas
That panel handled appropriations for NASA, the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and other science-related agencies, in addition to the Veteran Affairs and Housing and Urban Development departments. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 1:40 pm by WIMS
It [EPA] is sorely short of resources to provide the capacity needed for all the science questions at the Agency, and yet there is no other agency where such environmentally focused and directed science is being done to fill the unique mission of protecting the public's health and the environment on which they depend. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 1:33 pm by WIMS
 Under the BLM's Preferred Alternative identified in the Draft PEIS, the BLM would continue to support the research and development of hydrocarbon deposits in an environmentally responsible way that protects scarce water supplies in the arid West. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 5:00 am by David Doniger
In their latest attack on vital clean air safeguards, three senior House Republicans are trying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from doing its job under the Clean Air Act to protect Americans from dangerous carbon pollution from new power plants – pollution that threatens our health and drives our increasingly extreme weather. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 1:59 am
The Environmental Protection Agency missed a deadline this week to release part of an analysis on the public health impact of dioxins, a lapse that angered public health and environmental advocates.After many years of delays, the agency said in August it would complete the first part of the dioxin reassessment, which would have set a toxicological threshold for the first time, by January 31. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 1:59 am
Robert Tauxe, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Deputy Director of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Disease. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 1:52 pm
“The longstanding policy is we publicly identify a company only when people can use that information to take specific action to protect their health,” said Tauxe, the CDC’s deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 5:00 pm by Cary Coglianese
The butt of his joke was an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule from 1973 that requires businesses to take steps to prevent oil spills. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 12:39 pm by Pace Law School Library
Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator for water, will set context and moderate diverse perspectives from an expert panel including Mike Paque, executive director of Ground Water Protection Council; Richard Simmers, chief, Oil and Gas Resource Management Division, Ohio Department of Natural Resources; Mike Baker, chief, Drinking and Ground Water Divisions, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency; Stephanie Meadows,… [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 1:26 pm by WIMS
  I've ordered every federal agency to eliminate rules that don't make sense. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 1:50 pm by WIMS
 Bruce Nilles, Senior Director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign said, "For many years the Energy Information Agency has exaggerated coal's prospects for the future, and every year has had to downgrade its projections. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 6:15 pm by EEM
The Refugee Studies Centre's seminar series on environmental displacement kicks off on 18 January 2012 with "Environmental Displacement: Future Scenarios and Modes of Protection Re-examined. [read post]
14 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
-based environmental group "strongly urges against consolidating food safety functions of different government departments until much more progress is made to improve basic food safety protections. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 1:42 pm by WIMS
Improving environmental response management in the Arctic As melting sea ice enables increased access for shipping, tourism and oil and gas development, Federal agencies will work with State, local and international partners to develop coordinated response procedures for oil spills, marine accidents or other incidents to protect people, communities and ecosystems from adverse impacts. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 2:16 pm by Frank O'Donnell, Clean Air Watch
Environmental Protection Agency's leadership in carrying out our nation's clean air laws. [read post]