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Revealed: Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years
Texas officials charged with protecting the environment and public health have for years made arbitrary subtractions to the measured levels of radiation delivered by water utilities across the state, according to a series of investigative reports out of Houston. Those subtractions, based on the test results’ margin of error, made…
Obama drops plan to limit global warming gases
Battle over global warming now turns to EPA as Obama says he will pursue other solutions Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing a…
Likely GOP chairman plans to tear apart healthcare bill ‘like Jenga game’
Also promises parking space for EPA chief outside Congress Fred Upton, a 12-term congressman from Michigan, may not be a name you know. But if Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives, as they’re projected to do next Tuesday, he could be a name you come to remember. According…
Companies fight to keep global warming data secret
Companies want EPA to keep some global warming information secret in first-ever inventory Some of the country’s largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, don’t want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute. Oil producers and refiners, along with manufacturers of…
Poll: Just 34% of likely US voters oppose regulating greenhouse gases
In spite of massive astroturfing campaigns by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major industrial polluters, a clear majority of Americans support the regulation of greenhouse gases, according to a poll commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Remarkably, just 34 percent said they oppose the plan, while 60 percent…
Gulf waste heads to landfills, some with problems
Oily boom, trash from Gulf spill heads to landfills, some with state environmental issues The cleanup of history’s worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns. The soft, absorbent boom…
Lawmakers focus on chemical used in Gulf cleanup
Lawmakers pressed government scientists Wednesday to explain what effects a chemical used to get rid of oil will have on the Gulf’s ecosystem, even as a new report by the Obama administration characterized the effort as remarkably successful. BP applied nearly 2 million gallons of a chemical dispersant to the…
BP, Coast Guard ignored order to stop using dispersants: report
BP continued spraying large amounts of a controversial dispersant onto the surface of the Gulf of Mexico even after an EPA order to stop doing so, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, BP used a loophole in the EPA’s order that allowed the Coast Guard to rubber-stamp “exemptions”…
EPA: 1M gallons of oil may be in Mich. river
EPA says 1 million gallons of oil may have spilled in Mich. river, governor criticizes cleanup. Federal officials now estimate that more than 1 million gallons of oil may have spilled into a major river in southern Michigan, and the governor is sharply criticizing clean-up efforts as “wholly inadequate.” The…
White House hailed for ending climate gag order
An agreement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it will drop a policy under which it had sought to prevent two of its attorneys from speaking out against cap-and-trade legislation is being hailed as a victory for free speech and the rights of whistleblowers. The dispute began as the result…
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