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Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water Will Have to Meet New EPA Standards
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced plans to set standards for perchlorate and 16 other toxic chemicals found in drinking water supplies. The new regulations include a proposal to establish the first-ever national standard for perchlorate, a naturally occurring and man-made chemical found in rocket fuels that has been linked to thyroid problems. Perchlorate has contaminated water supplies in at least 26 states, according to the EPA. The decision to set new perchlorate rules reverses a Bush administration finding that a national standard for the chemical was ...
EPA Announces New Greenhouse Gas Regulations
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyCalling it a "common-sense approach" towards curbing greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced new regulations on emissions from power plants and oil refineries as a way to fight global warming. In a statement on the EPA's website late Thursday, administrator Lisa Jackson said the rules targeting "the largest industrial pollution sources" would go into effect next year under the Clean Air Act. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG [greenhouse gas] pollution that threatens the health and welfare of ...
EPA Moves Unilaterally to Curb Greenhouse Gases
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Stymied in Congress, the Obama administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the agency's website late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with pollution contributing to climate change. "We are following through on our commitment to proceed in a measured and careful way to reduce GHG pollution that threatens the health and welfare of Americans," Jackson said in a ...
Government Refuses to Act on Cancer-Causing Insulation
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News
This is Part 1 of a four-part series on an asbestos-tainted insulation called Zonolite, a killer that lurks in the attics and walls of millions of homes. WASHINGTON (Nov. 29) -- Americans living in millions of homes will soon crawl into their attics to collect their holiday decorations. With those colorful lights and ornaments could come invisible and deadly asbestos fibers that decades from now may destroy or end the lives of some of the celebrants. For years the government has known that the attics and walls of as many as 35 million homes and businesses are insulated with Zonolite, which ...
How Big of a Splash Did International Blog Action Day Make?
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- The word "blog" and "action" might not seem like a natural fit, especially given Malcom Gladwell's notoriously pessimistic new piece on the Web's ability to affect social change. But today is change.org's International Blog Action Day, where blogs across the country are meant to be highlighting water issues in the US and abroad. Some are saying that fresh water could become the "next oil" as a hotly contested scarce resource. And unlike oil, need water to survive under any circumstances, and the world's resources are becoming increasingly contaminated and contentious as ...
Reform of Toxic Chemicals Law Collapses as Industry Flexes Its Muscles
By Sheila Kaplan - Politics DailyThis article by investigative journalist Sheila Kaplan is the first in a series supported by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University's School of Communication. Politics Daily will publish the remaining installments in the weeks to come. Fire retardants in baby blankets, nano-particles in cosmetics, plastics in water bottles and anti-bacterial agents in soaps. Experts call these and other chemicals emerging contaminants -- compounds that were once thought to be safe, but which scientists now believe may pose a danger to human health. How those chemicals get into your ...
Gulf Drilling Moratorium May Be Lifted Early
By Laura Parker - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Sept. 27) -- The Interior Department plans to issue two new oil drilling regulations later this week, signaling that a six-month deepwater drilling moratorium for the Gulf of Mexico may be lifted early, a presidential panel was told here Monday. But Michael Bromwich, director of the newly organized Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, told the Oil Spill Commission that drilling will not immediately resume once the moratorium is lifted. "You are not going to see drilling going on the next day or even the next week," he said. "I haven't talked to the individual operators. I don't ...
Opinion: Gulf Oil Spill's Silent Victims -- The Children
By not in system - AOL News(June 28) -- The BP oil spill has garnered international attention for unimaginable real and future losses: lives as well as livelihoods, wildlife and coastal communities. We've learned from the Exxon Valdez and other spills how these catastrophes impact ecosystems, and witnessed the years of rehabilitation and billions of dollars invested in the cleanup. Yet in weighing these losses, little attention is being given to what this latest man-made disaster will mean to the most vulnerable of our society: our children. Still evaluating the health effects caused by Hurricane Katrina, we are now ...
Scientists Oppose Nano-Dispersant for Gulf
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(May 28) -- The massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has already hemorrhaged anywhere from 18 million to 40 million gallons of oil into the water, leaving federal and state emergency response officials desperate for any way to capture the spreading raw crude and protect the U.S. coastline. But this week, scientists in the U.S., Canada, South America and elsewhere pleaded with the government not to approve one option: a dispersant that contains unidentified and possibly untested nanoparticles. Seventeen environmental, public health advocacy and research organizations wrote a letter to EPA ...
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