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1. Gowanus Canal goes Superfund
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... the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean up this derelict canal and to compel PRP's (principal responsible parties) to perform the cleanup ...

2. EPA defends plan to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions
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The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for ...

3. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

4. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
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The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

5. Senator urges EPA to restrict plastics chemical (AP)
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AP - A New York Senator is asking the Environmental Protection Agency why it did not include Bisphenol-A, the controversial plastic-hardener, on a list of chemicals subject to stricter rules. ...

6. EPA adds 2 Ill. sites to Superfund priorities list (AP)
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AP - The Environmental Protection Agency has added a cluster of waste-disposal sites in Chicago and a former copper smelter in southern Illinois to its list of Superfund locations, allowing the government ...

7. EPA adds 10 sites to the Superfund list (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - After years of languishing as the neglected stepchild of environmental enforcement, there are signs that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program is beginning ...

8. EPA adds polluted NYC canal to Superfund list (AP)
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AP - For at least 120 years, city officials have been promising to do something about the oily, smelly mess that is the Gowanus Canal.

9. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

10. Fish and Wildlife Service Removes Endangered Species Act Protection From Arizona's Desert Nesting Bald Eagles
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is acting to remove Endangered Species Act protection from Arizona's desert nesting bald eagles. Almost two years after U.S. District Court Judge Mary Murguia’s March ...

11. EPA orders cleanup to resume at PR fuel depot (AP)
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AP - The owners of a Puerto Rican fuel depot that exploded in October have been ordered to resume cleanup after contractors walked off the job last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said  ...

12. Senate battles EPA in greenhouse gas showdown (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - Clashes over climate change dominated a Senate hearing Tuesday on the Environmental Protection Agency's budget, amid signs some senators may soon try to strip the EPA of ...

13. Engine Emissions
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... 17, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that will further reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing diesel powered stationary reciprocating internal combustion ...

14. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

15. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

16. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
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... agreement from 2012 to 2050. Michael Greenstone, the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT, listed all the reasons the United States ought to change its policy on climate change. Greenstone, ...

17. Tests Show Top Tuna Brands Have High Mercury Levels (HealthDay)
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... what's considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. ...

18. CRTs going down the tubes? Hardly
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... in a healthy manner,” he explains, “both for economic benefits, and to minimize the environmental burden. We saw this as an interesting test case,” partly because it deals with a commodity that is gradually ...

19. DOE and EPA Join States to Speed Progress on U.S. Energy Efficiency
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DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are leading an effort to create a new State Energy Efficiency Action Network, which will help states achieve their maximum cost-effective energy ...

20. US Reps from Mo. to propose blocking EPA gas rules (AP)
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AP - Two congressional members from Missouri said Tuesday that they plan to file legislation blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from developing its own greenhouse gas rules. ...

21. New Anti-Smog Restrictions Could Warm Planet
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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tightening the standard for smog to protect human health. The result would be cleaner urban air. But because of a quirk of atmospheric chemistry, the pollution ...

22. EPA to visit Calif town with birth defect cluster (AP)
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AP - An Environmental Protection Agency official says he will visit a California farm town near the largest toxic waste dump in the West, but the agency has no plans to investigate birth defects there. ...

23. Reach: High Hazard Chemicals
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Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of CHemicals (REACH) is a European Union Regulation. REACH addresses the production and use of chemical substances, and their potential impacts on ...

24. Reach: High Hazard Chemicals
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Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of CHemicals (REACH) is a European Union Regulation. REACH addresses the production and use of chemical substances, and their potential impacts on ...

25. UK planning to reintroduce insects
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When one thinks of reintroducing wildlife, one usually thinks of big charismatic mammals, such as wolves or beaver, or desperate birds like the Californian condor. But the Royal Society for the Protection ...

26. EPA shows TVA's Kingston coal ash cleanup options (AP)
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AP - As the cleanup of Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston ash spill continues, the Environmental Protection Agency has suggested ways to move forward and what it could cost, but a key question remains ...

27. UK planning to reintroduce insects
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When one thinks of reintroducing wildlife, one usually thinks of big charismatic mammals, such as wolves or beaver, or desperate birds like the Californian condor. But the Royal Society for the Protection ...

28. Radon in Homes an Invisible Danger
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... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is touting three initiatives to raise awareness about the risks of radon. ...

29. EPA agents search Chevron facilities in Alaska
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Agents from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigating possible air-pollution violations spent two days searching Chevron-owned oil facilities in Alaska, company and government officials said ...

30. Radon in Homes an Invisible Danger
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... Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is touting three initiatives to raise awareness about the risks of radon. ...