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BP denies botching Gulf of Mexico clean-up
Report: EPA officials mull sanctions against BP’s US operations Amid increasing anger over a huge oil slick hitting US shores, BP officials Friday denied botching the month-long clean-up and deliberately hiding the true extent of the spill. With a thick sludge now washing up in the Mississippi delta threatening disaster…
Watchdog groups file FOIA requests to learn true extent of oil spill
Former EPA investigator charges, “What the government has done over the past several years is taught BP that it can do whatever it wants and will not be held accountable” As the current Gulf oil spill crisis intensifies, previous incidents involving BP have begun coming under renewed scrutiny, intensifying suspicions…
EPA prepares rule to regulate industrial emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming. The EPA said it is completing a rule requiring large polluters to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide and other…
Virginia Attorney General to Tea Partiers: ‘Hold your breath’ to save trees
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has managed to rankle progressives time and again during his few months in office. Now, his administration is following up on its legal fight against the EPA by ruthlessly mocking environmentalists. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli last month filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency…
EPA proposes veto of major US mountaintop removal site
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed an unprecedented veto to restrict or prohibit mining at a major proposed US mountaintop removal coal mining site. If the veto is finalized, it would invalidate a permit first issued in 2007 for the Army Corps of Engineers at the Spruce…
17,000 potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under obscure law
Of some 84,000 chemicals being used commercially in the United States, some 20 percent — or 17,000 — are kept secret not only from the public, but from medical professionals, state regulators and even emergency responders, according to a report at the Washington Post. And the reason for this potentially…
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