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Comments on former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Christie Whitman's political memoir “It's My Party Too.” Whitman's puzzling loyalty to U.S. president George W. Bush despite his complicity with reversals in environmental policy that in part led to her resignation from EPA; Whitman's agenda of deploring the hijacking of the Republican Party through her book.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's disclosure on December 17, 2004, that about a third of Americans live in counties that do not meet standards for microscopic particles of pollution. Deadline set by the agency for affected states to develop plans to bring their problem counties into compliance; Provisions of the Clean Air Act; Measures proposed by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to reduce emissions of particulate matter and other regulated air pollutants.

Reports on the federal lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue stricter national standards to limit storm water pollution seeping from construction sites.

Reports on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's plan to reduce mercury pollution from power plants to protect children and pregnant women.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's identification of counties that fail federal air standards. Discovery of microscopic soot from diesel-burning trucks, power plants and other sources; Results of preliminary analysis by the agency suggesting that several counties may have to take additional measures to curb pollution to meet the standards by 2010.

The article discusses the proposed rule released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on August 29, 2019 which plans to cut back on the regulation of methane emissions, the gas tied to climate change. Topics covered include the aims of the proposed regulation, how the rule would reopen the discussion of whether the agency had the legal authority to regulate methane as a pollutant, and the benefits of the new methane standards on the oil and gas industry.

The article reports on the mounting cases of cancers in Johnson County, Indiana ever since U.S. President Donald Trump has rolled back health and environmental regulations. It links the disease to an old industrial site in Franklin, Indiana that the federal government had ordered cleaned up decades ago. A complaint sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by a the affected families is discussed.

The article reports on internal agency emails at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which show that in-house scientists and lawyers have objected a proposed measure to review applications for using asbestos in consumer products. Topics discussed include efforts by the administration U.S. President Donald Trump to roll back environmental rules, the potential health impacts of the new approach, and calls from consumer groups for EPA to prohibit asbestos entirely.

The article reports on the move by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting head Andrew Wheeler to stop two key programs by his predecessor Scott Pruitt aimed at rolling back environmental regulations. Also cited are the resignation of Pruitt due to ethics investigations, the anticipated legal challenges against the regulations rollback, as well as the comment of environmental law expert Professor Richard L. Revesz on the developments.

The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a change to the way it assesses scientific work. The change would restrict the research available to the agency when writing environmental regulations. According to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, the release of raw data would let other scientists and industry groups test the findings more thoroughly.

The article reports that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is said to be using the agency as a launching platform for his political aspirations in 2024. Topics discussed include the possibility that Pruitt will run for senator or governor in Oklahoma in 2020, his plans to rollback several regulations including the clean water rule and climate change rules, and the speculation on whether he will run for the presidency in 2024.

The article reports on the efforts of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees to block the confirmation of U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee Scott Pruitt to run the agency, urging senators to vote against the confirmation. It mentions concerns by EPA employees that President Trump and Pruitt would completely reverse the accomplishments of EPA given the opposition of Pruitt to EPA policies, focusing on the defiance by EPA employees and potential retaliation by Pruitt.

The article discusses several of the environmental policy issues that are expected to be addressed under the leadership of acting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) administrator Andrew Wheeler, and it mentions America's climate change policy and California's vehicle emissions standards.

The article discusses the preparations taken by Scott Pruitt the head of Environmental Protection Agency for his testimony for an ethics investigation. It talks about the various environmental policies implemented under his leadership related to climate change. It talks about his security spending affairs and the allegations of multiple sexual harassment at workplace on him.

The article looks at several environmental disasters in the U.S. that helped shift the public conversation and prompt lawmakers to take action. Among of such disasters are the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969, the fire at the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio in 1969, and the Love Canal disaster in Niagara Falls, New York caused by the toxic waste dumped by Hooker Chemical Co. in the canal. It is noted those disasters set off the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The article discusses an announcement by the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama that it would seek to implement regulations for the greenhouse gas emissions of airplanes through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.). Topics addressed include the E.P.A.'s decision to wait until the completion of negotiations for international standards by the International Civil Aviation Organization (I.C.A.O.) in 2016, as well as airlines' efforts to reduce fuel usage.

The article discusses United States president Barack Obama's use of the U.S. Clean Air Act to implement environmental regulations, highlighting Obama's potential long-term environmental legacy. Topics addressed include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (E.P.A.'s) powers under the Clean Air Act, Obama's policies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles in an effort to mitigate global warming, and Republican opposition to Obama's policies.

The article offers information on the decision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to dropped the proposed ozone policy change which aims to change regulation on smog-forming pollutants from tailpipes and smokestacks.

The author discusses the lessons learned by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983 that should be considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.), which represents one of the examples of the political system that listen and respond to the American people.

The article discusses an executive order issued by U.S. president Barack Obama on February 18, 2014 that calls for stricter fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks in the U.S. Topics addressed include the Obama administration's efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (E.P.A.) proposal of other rules to mitigate carbon emissions, and reactions to Obama's order by environmentalists and the shipping industry.

The article reports on the difficulty of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a regulation in the U.S. that would curb climate change during a marathon of meetings and drafting sessions in 2014. Particular focus is given to the order by President Barack Obama to the EPA to release by June 1 the draft of a regulation that will establish a national standard for carbon pollution. The complication in writing the new rule in terms of legality is discussed.

The article discusses U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to draft legislation designed to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants in the United States as of June 19, 2013. Topics addressed include Obama's record and views on climate policy, potential legal challenges to the legislation from Republicans, and the involvement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) in climate policy initiatives.

The article discusses U.S. President Barack Obama's nominations of Gina McCarthy as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) and Ernest J. Moniz as head of the Department of Energy, focusing on the impact that McCarthy and Moniz could have on U.S. climate policy. Topics addressed include the relationship between pursuing domestic energy and attempting to reduce climate change, Obama's support of the use of natural gas, and government policies on the emissions of power plants.

The article reports that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen P. Johnson, ruled that California and 16 other states cannot set their own limits for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles. The state's proposed standard was much stricter than that of current U.S. law. The states plan a legal challenge to Johnson's decision.

The article reports that proposed U.S. government regulations for enforcing a 2006 Supreme Court ruling governing wetlands protection were scaled back by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush after a lobbying campaign by mine owners, land developers, and farm groups. The rules were altered just before their scheduled announcement in September, 2006. Environmentalists denounced the changes. Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declined comment.

This article reports that a federal appeals court overturned a clean-air regulation issued by the administration of President George W. Bush that would have allowed many power plants, refineries and factories to avoid installing new pollution controls. The ruling was made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The decision in this lawsuit, spearheaded by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, overturns an earlier ruling in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Reports on environmental policy in the U.S. as of June 25, 2005. Support for the revisions to the Clean Air Act, known as the New Source Review, by a federal appeals court; Claim that the revisions allow industries to avoid installing pollution-reduction equipment in plants; Role of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in creating the New Source Review in 2002; Comments of New York Attorney General on the federal court's support for the New Source Review; Reaction of environmental activists to the court's decision.

Reports that Christie Whitman will resign as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Length of time she spent in the job, which was marked by confrontations with the administration of President George W. Bush; View that she sided with environmentalists over issues, making her ineffective within the administration; Discussion of arsenic levels in drinking water that embroiled Whitman in a controversy that Democrats used as a political issue against Bush and Republicans.

The article focuses on the proposed environmental regulation on smog from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the administration of President Barack Obama which would affect power plants and factories across the Midwest U.S.

ACCORDING to numerous reports, the Obama administration has advanced a federal fuel efficiency fleet average standard of 56.2 m.p.g. for 2025. But while an official number from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is not expected until September, the reported standard has prompted intense jockeying among automakers and environmental groups and has again put a focus on California. In 2009, the state tabled its clean-car mandates to adopt a fleet-average standard set by the federal government for 2012-16. That standard called for a gradual strengthening of Corporate Average Fuel Economy, known as CAFE, that would culminate in a 35.5 m.p.g. fleet-wide requirement in 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Science and politics rarely play nicely together, and a House hearing Tuesday on a bill to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions proved no exception. Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on energy and power demanded the hearing in the hope of slowing the inexorable progress of the bill, known as the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which enjoys the near-unanimous support of the Republican House majority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agencysaid on Friday that cars and light trucks from the 2001 model year onward can safely use a blend of 15 percent ethanol mixed with gasoline, up from the 10 percent standard now in effect in much of the country. The decision expands the pool of vehicles that could use such a fuel to about 62 percent of the total on the roads. But the practical impact of the announcement on the fuel blend, known as E15, was not clear. An announcement in October that newer cars, from the 2007 model year and later, could use the blend has so far had little impact on retailers or drivers. A new fuel requires multiple approvals from many agencies. And retailers are typically not set up to offer an additional grade of gasoline at their pumps: if they wanted to sell E15, they would have to stop selling something else. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency revoked the permit for one of the nation's largest mountaintop-removal coal mining projects on Thursday, saying the mine would have done unacceptable damage to rivers, wildlife and communities in West Virginia. It was the first time the agency had rescinded a valid clean water permit for a coal mine. Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, which would have buried miles of Appalachian streams under millions of tons of residue, has been the subject of controversy and litigation since the first application was filed more than a decade ago. Opposition intensified after the Bush administration approved the mine's construction in 2007, issuing a permit required under the Clean Water Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Recession, it turns out, is good for fuel economy. Gas mileage for 2009 model cars and trucks showed the largest increase since the oil crisis of nearly three decades ago, according to an annual report by the Environmental Protection Agency released on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

State officials on Monday appealed the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to overturn a state air permitting program. The E.P.A. ruled last month that the state's flexible permit program violated the Clean Air Act, which requires state permits to set limits on each of the dozens of individual production units inside a plant. The state's program set a general limit on pollutants an entire facility can release. The E.P.A. action will force 125 refineries and petrochemical plants to invest millions of dollars to get new permits. In his appeal, Attorney General Greg Abbott said the state program ''improves air quality while helping regulators and regulated entities operate more efficiently.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is 10 years behind schedule in setting guidelines for a host of toxic air pollutants, according to a report from the agency's inspector general. The report, which was released last week, found that the agency had failed to develop emissions standards, due in 2000, for some sources of hazardous air pollutants. These included smaller sites often located in urban areas, like dry cleaners and gas stations, but also some chemical manufacturers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A federal investigation has found that a hazardous waste facility at the center of a birth defects controversy improperly disposed of a chemical known to cause cancer and reproductive problems. The Environmental Protection Agency sent a ''notice of violation'' Thursday to Chemical Waste Management in Kettleman City. At issue is the facility's handling of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, a banned transformer fluid. Nearby residents have blamed the facility for at least 11 birth defects since 2007. Company officials have said there is no evidence linking the dump to the birth defects (AP) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January. The statement formally affirms an agency announcement last month that it would phase in the regulation of climate-altering gases over several years, starting with the largest sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed a stricter standard for smog-causing pollutants that would bring substantial health benefits to millions of Americans while imposing large costs on industry and local governments. The standard would replace one set by the Bush administration in March 2008, which has been challenged in court by state officials and environmental advocates as too weak to adequately protect human health and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel, to 15 percent, if tests established that the blend would not damage cars. The maximum ethanol blend is now 10 percent, except for cars specially equipped to handle higher blends. The agency said it was likely to approve the increase to 15 percent next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to a report Thursday from an advocacy group. The increase in farmers skirting the rules, from fewer than 10 percent a few years ago, raises the risk that insects will develop resistance to the toxins in the corn that are meant to kill them, the report says. And it raises questions about whether the Environmental Protection Agency and the agricultural biotechnology industry are adequately enforcing the rules. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to buyout the residents of the contaminated town of Treece. The decision was a victory for about 140 residents, who had asked for help to leave the town because of contamination from lead and zinc mining. Congress approved legislation that gives the agency authority to relocate residents, and President Obama is expected to sign the bill this weekend. Treece is about 145 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''The new standards are aggressive and achievable, and ensure that consumers have a full range of vehicle choices.'' Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on proposed White House rules that would impose the first nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE country's largest companies pump millions and millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, earning billions of dollars while doing so. Last week, two senior House Democrats outlined a plan to cap carbon dioxide emissions and force companies to trade carbon emission credits; this would turn what was long unregulated into a tightly controlled commodity. The Environmental Protection Agency wants a piece of the action as well and is preparing to exert regulatory control over greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Suppliers of home heating oil from Maine to Maryland have agreed to gradually reduce sulfur levels in their oil over the next 10 years in an effort to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, a contributor to haze. The agreement was made with the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility Union, a planning organization that coordinates efforts to improve air quality to meet the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Clean Air Act plainly empowered the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases from cars and trucks -- and, by inference, other sources like power plants. There was great hope at the time that the decision would force President Bush to confront the issue of climate change, which he had largely ignored for six years. Instead, it became the catalyst for a campaign of scientific obfuscation, political flimflam and simple dereliction of duty -- which United States Senator Barbara Boxer aptly described as a ''master plan'' -- to ensure that the administration did as little as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chosen for: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Would bring to the job: Twenty years of experience as an environmental regulator and a reputation as a consensus builder. Ms. Jackson, a chemical engineer, brought a more policy-driven approach as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, winning praise even from those who opposed her decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency must revise its approach to assessing environmental health hazards and other risks, because current practices hinder useful and timely regulation, an expert panel of The National Research Council says. The council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, said the agency should scrap some of the assumptions on which its decisions have been based and reduce its focus on individual chemicals and other hazards to consider how they act in combination. It should also accept that uncertainty was always an issue and seek to provide practical information to policy makers as quickly as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Being considered for: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or another environmental and climate-change policy post. Would bring to job: Expertise in environmental issues, particularly air pollution, experience in carrying out policy and familiarity with both state-level initiatives and the inner workings of the E.P.A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]