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EPA Sued to Properly Assess Health Risks of Pesticides in the Water Supply

2/11/2009 - (NaturalNews) The nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to properly take into account the health and ecological risks of approved pesticides. "There are several pesticides on the...

EPA Warns of Impending Human Threat Due to Global Warming

2/8/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a strong warning that global warming will have "substantial human health impacts" within the next few decades. The warning came in a report released only days after the same agency declined...

Granite Countertops Release Cancer-Causing Radon Gas

12/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports an increasing number of calls from homeowners and radon inspectors in recent months concerning granite countertops emitting unusually high levels of radiation. "It's not that all granite...

Broken Compact Fluorescent Lights Release Mercury Into the Air: Over 100 Times the EPA Limit

8/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Compact fluorescent light bulbs can release dangerous amounts of mercury into the air when they break and must be disposed of very carefully, according to a report by the state of Maine. Compact fluorescent bulbs, which consume only...

EPA Forces California to Abandon New Limits on Automobile Emissions

7/13/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected a petition by California and 12 other states to set stricter standards on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles than those put in place by the federal government. Greenhouse...

Fluorescent lights release toxic mercury directly into the environment

2/11/2008 - There is an international campaign to ban the incandescent bulb in favor of alternative sources of lighting, most notably fluorescents. Unfortunately, fluorescents contain noxious chemicals including argon and mercury that are contaminating the environment,...

8,000 Toxic Waste Sites Ignored by EPA; Massive Lead Contamination at Shooting Ranges

12/6/2007 - Firing ranges expose the environment and the ecosystem to lead pollution caused by the presence of lead in ammunition projectiles. This makes lead pollution a major concern for the public. When these bullets are fired, they emit lead particles that...

Safety concerns surface over switch to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights

11/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) Although compact fluorescent lightbulbs have become a favorite symbol of energy efficiency, and though several state and national governments have passed or are considering legislation to ban the older incandescent bulbs, compact fluorescents...

The greenwashing of toxic consumer products

11/12/2007 - Have you noticed over the last year how virtually every large corporation is trying to make consumers believe their products are "Earth friendly?" Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing cars are now being positioned as "green" products, and...

EPA tightens tailpipe emissions of cancer-causing chemicals

2/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new regulations on February 9 intended to reduce emissions of the toxic chemical benzene from a variety of gasoline sources. The new standards do not take full effect until 2030, at which...

High levels of DDT still present in fish

1/30/2007 - (NaturalNews) The waters off the Los Angeles County coast still possess high levels of DDT contamination, according to a recent report. The report, released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, shows that the pesticide, which companies dumped...

States sue the EPA over air quality standards

12/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) The state-based lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and it states as a main argument that the EPA has ignored the advice of its own scientists. The suit suggests that the EPA should lower...

Bush administration considers reversing four decades of Clean Air Act lead restrictions in gasoline

12/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency announced this week that the Bush administration's proposal to rescind health standards that disallow lead in gasoline might be justified, as lead concentrations in the air have dropped more than 90 percent...

Coalition of EPA scientists calls for agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions

12/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) EPA scientists from across the nation are in the process of petitioning the U.S. Congress to stem global warming resulting from human-created causes. A letter attached to the EPA petition states "We are writing to protest the lack of progress...

Environmental Protection Agency refuses to regulate greenhouse gasses; brought before Supreme Court

11/30/2006 - (NaturalNews) The case of Massachusetts v the Environmental Protection Agency was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday as judges considered oral arguments over the role of greenhouse gasses in global warming, and whether the EPA has the...

Chemical companies attempt to influence the EPA in private task force meetings

1/16/2004 7:52:44 AM - What's interesting about this article is the revelation that private industry groups are meeting with the EPA in what they call an education effort. But an observation of the meetings between industry groups and government oversight organizations,...

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