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EPA defends controversial biofuels program at Senate hearing
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday defended its handling of the nation's controversial renewable fuels program at a congressional hearing, the first since its new biofuels targets last month provoked a furor among corn farmers and oil refiners. At the hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, U.S. lawmakers criticized the agency for years-long delays to quotas and for last month setting unattainable targets for the amount of corn-based ethanol and...
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Senate panel advances $30B bill that targets EPA rules
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a $30.01 billion spending bill that takes aim at President Obamas environmental regulations. The bill would fund the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Interior Department for fiscal 2016, which begins Oct. 1, by $400 million below the level Congress enacted for 2015 and $2.2 billion less than Obamas request. Lawmakers voted 16-14 to advance the bill to the Senate floor. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the ranking member on the...
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EPA Selects Three Universities To Help Find New Uses For Toxics Data
2015-06-18 03:34:19| chemicalonline Home Page
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced recently its selection of academic partners for the 2015 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) University Challenge, a project designed to increase public awareness and use of data on industrial releases of toxic chemicals in communities.
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GOP Senators Wary of EPA Coal Ash Rule
2015-06-17 21:23:00| Waste Age
The Hill Republican senators on Wednesday aired concerns with the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) rule on coal ash disposal, saying they might try to revise it. read more
EPA Fails 6 Subjects
2015-06-17 13:00:46| pollutiononline News Articles
Like so many schoolchildren sweating out final grades, the U.S. EPA gets its own report card each year, served by the EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG). Unfortunately, it’s full of bad marks.
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