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EPA Proposes Cleaner Gasoline
Comments (0) | air quality, American Petroleum Institute, California, climate change, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, gas prices, gasoline, National, Obama, obama administration, pollution
Officials say the new gas will reduce harmful emissions, but opponents say it has a price.
Read more...Obama Proposes Energy Research Fund
Comments (0) | alternative fuel, Cap and Trade, climate change, electric car batteries, electric vehicles, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, environmental research, epa, foreign oil, fracking, GOP, hybrid, Lisa Murkowski, Obama, offshore drilling, Politics, State of the Union
The fund will aid research into electric vehicles and alternative fuel sources.
Read more...Obama To Nominate Wal-Mart Charity Head As Budget Chief
Comments (0) | Environmental Protection Agency, epa, National, Obama, Office of Management and Budget, omb, President Obama, sylvia mathews burwell, Wal-Mart, Walmart
President Obama (Creative Commons)
The president will make the announcement at a White House ceremony Monday morning.
Read more...Beijing Air Pollution Increases
Comments (0) | air pollution, bad air, Beijing, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, International, pollution, Toxic, toxins
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing recorded the highest levels of air pollution since it began monitoring it in 2008.
Read more...EPA Chief To Step Down
Comments (28) | carbon emissions, clean air act, climate change, Environment, environmental policy, epa, lisa p. jackson, National, news and world, Obama, U.S., White House
Lisa P. Jackson will leave her post at the beginning of Obama's second term.
Read more...New Jersey Bridge Collapse Dumps Chemicals Into Creek
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What health risks the residents face.
Read more...Rising Production Costs, Low Corn Yield Threaten Calif. Dairies
Comments (2) | agriculture, California, crunching numbers, dairies, dairy, dairy farmers, economic downturn, economy, epa, National, renewable fuel standard, usda, Western United Dairymen
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Nationwide drought hits dairy farmers hard.
Read more...EPA Proposes Tougher Standards On Soot Pollution
Comments (0) | american lung association, American Petroleum Institute, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, National, pollution
The new EPA standards would reduce the allowable soot level in the nation's air. (Creative Commons)
Supporters say the new rule would reduce asthma rates around the country.
Read more...The Accidental Activist: One Man's Environmental Crusade
Comments (0) | brownfield sites, Communities for a Better Environment, environmental justice, epa, Huntington Park, I-710 Corridor Project, Los Angeles and Region, pollution in LA, Robert Cabrales, South Gate, Superfund sites, toxic tours
Fed up with the health challenges he had growing up, Robert Cabrales found his calling as an activist for environmental justice.
Read more...EPA Sets New Power Plant Emission Standards
Comments (0) | acid gas, air pollution, arsenic, coal power plant, coal-fired power plants, cyanide, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, mercury, nickel, power plant emissions, selenium
St. Johns River Power Park, Jacksonville, Fla. (photo courtesy of Creative Commons).
Mercury has been shown to harm the nervous systems of children exposed in the womb.
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