Everything you always wanted to know about EPA greenhouse gas regulations, but were afraid to ask
grist.org 9/24/2009 — by David Roberts Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority and the obligation to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. At a stroke, the politics of climate change were changed. The choice was no longer ...

Ethanol-Gasoline Fuel Blends May Cause Human Health Risks and Engine Issues
ewg.org 5/18/2009 — May 18th, 2009 In March 2009 corn ethanol producers asked for help from the federal government to expand their industry. Growth Energy, a consortium of ethanol producers, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow ...

Carbon emissions pose danger, EPA finds
features.csmonitor.com 4/17/2009 — In deciding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency has laid the groundwork for new and expansive federal oversight of carmakers, utilities, and a host of other large emitters of the ...

Can EPA regulations on CO2 be blocked?
grist.org 23 days ago — by David Roberts It’s widely assumed that if Congress fails to pass a clean energy bill, the EPA will step in with regulations on CO2 under the Clean Air Act . The Supreme Court ruled in 2007’s Mass. v EPA that it must do so if it finds ...

Factual Analysis Debunks Corn Ethanol Industry’s Call to Waive Clean Air Act Fuel Standards
ewg.org 5/18/2009 — May 15th, 2009 LINK: Science Analysis - Ethanol Health Risks and Engine Damage The Honorable Lisa Jackson Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 Subject: Clean ...

New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
climateprogress.org 6/25/2009 — The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here . The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong ...

The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited
e360.yale.edu 5/12/2009 — Over the past two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has obliterated or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried more than 1,000 miles of streams. Now, the Obama administration is showing signs it plans to crack ...

New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
theenergycollective.com 6/25/2009 — The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here .  The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong action show (see “” Intro to climate economics ...

EPA chief says CO2 finding may not 'mean regulation.'
online.wsj.com 5/14/2009 — Wall Street Journal: The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a public health danger won't necessarily lead to government regulation of emissions, an apparent ...

The EPA finds greenhouse gases to be dangerous, but what does that mean?
theenergycollective.com 3/28/2009 — EPA logo In a landmark move , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to declare an “endangerment finding” on GHGs, meaning they officially acknowledge them to be a threat to human health, and are therefore required to regulate them under the Clean Air Act (CAA). This is ...

Danielle Ivory Discusses The EPA's Failure To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water On "Democracy Now" (VIDEO) — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 8/25/2009
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund recently published an article revealing that the EPA had failed to inform customers about the presence of a widely-used herbicide, atrazine, in their water at levels exceeding federal safety limits. The author ...

Water Contamination In Wyoming Could Be From Natural Gas Drilling — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 8/25/2009
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing. ...

"Solar UFOs" invade Japanese city in water-purification mission — The most recent articles from BusinessGreen 8/26/2009
Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 26 August 2009 at 10:16:00 Floating solar-powered discs dispatched to clean canal and moat in Osaka A canal in the Japanese city of Osaka has been invaded by a solar-powered, UFO-shaped ...

EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyoming Drinking Water Might Be From Natural Gas Drilling — Scientific American - Environment 8/26/2009
Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing. ...

Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters for Weed-Killer — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 8/27/2009
Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer from their water supplies. As the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported earlier this week, ...