huffingtonpost.com - 8/27/2009
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One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results.
Records that tracked the amount of the weed-killer atrazine in about 150 watersheds from 2003 through 2008 were obtained by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund under the Freedom of Information Act. An analysis found that yearly average levels of atrazine in ...
blogs.wvgazette.com - 9/4/2009
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samples0606.jpg “I will tell you that there’s some
pretty country up there that’s been torn up pretty...
good.” – President Obama, March 23, 2009 Last week, Bruce Nilles and Mary Anne Hitt of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign wrote a Huffington Post ...
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sfgate.com - 9/1/2009
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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters that a
formal "endangerment finding," which would trigger federal regulations on...
greenhouse gas emissions, probably would "happen in the next months." Jackson announced her timeline even as top senators ...
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EPA to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant
enn.com - 9/1/2009
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Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous
pollutant - a move that could help propel slow-moving...
climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told ...
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New Research: Herbicide Atrazine Linked to Cancer, Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruption, and Endangered Species Impacts
Commondreams.org Newswire —
... , Washington Post , and Huffington Post discuss how the Environmental Protection Agency is ignoring unsafe atrazine contamination levels in surface and drinking water in the Midwest and South. Agency documents show that numerous watersheds and drinking-water systems are contaminated with atrazine, which was banned by the European Union and in Switzerland, the home country of its parent company Syngenta, because of dangers to both people and wildlife. Atrazine is linked to declines of endangered amphibians and fish in California such as the California red-legged frog, ...
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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).
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