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EPA Presses Activists to Return CAFO Information
2013-05-06 17:26:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: National Pork Producers Council Redoubling efforts to retrieve data on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) illegally sent to environmental activist groups in February, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a second letter this past week. The first letter sought to retrieve the previously issued data and resend in a redacted form. The latest letter seeks to retrieve the redacted information and replace it with new, further redacted information as EPA recognized that their release still contained significant amounts of private data. read more
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Mills: EPA cuts estimate on leaks from gas operations
2013-05-06 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Record News: The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of amount of the potential heat-trapping gas leaks come from natural gas production. It is great news for natural gas producers, consumers, and the environment. The EPAs study on greenhouse emissions shows an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall or a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates. The agency converts the...
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EPA Strengthens Conflict of Interest Review Process for Science Review Panels
2013-05-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA announced that it has improved its conflict of interest review process for contractor-managed peer reviews. Agency has put a new oversight process in place to ensure that contractors follow all existing conflicts of interest guidance and requirements. In addition, EPA will now ensure that the public has the opportunity to review and comment on peer review panel’s composition when influential scientific documents are being considered. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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EPA Continues To Release Personal Information On Cattle Producers
2013-05-02 22:50:00| Beef
National Cattlemen's Beef Association The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to illegally release information on cattle operations to the activist groups Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In this latest action, the agency again admitted it had released too much information on livestock producers, specifically producers from Montana and Nebraska. read more
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EPA to Award More than Half Billion to Water, Wastewater Plants Hit by Sandy
2013-05-02 22:41:41| ENR.com: Headline News
Funding will focus on projects that provide resiliency in future storms.
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