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Groups Urge Investigation Of EPA Actions In Texas Water Contamination Case
2013-02-21 06:36:46| oilandgasonline News Articles
More than 80 organizations from 12 states and a New York State Senator recently called on the inspector general of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate a decision to drop legal action against a drilling company despite evidence that it had polluted residents’ well water near Fort Worth, Texas.
EPA Still Monitoring Accuracy of Mileage Ratings
2013-02-21 01:04:22| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
The US Environmental Protection Agency is changing its practices and will be more closely monitoring automakers fuel economy ratings, according to Jeff Alson, a senior EPA engineer. Alson spoke at a University of Michigan conference last week and addressed questions from Automotive News about follow ups to the scandal last fall from Hyundai and Kia [...]The Article EPA Still Monitoring Accuracy of Mileage Ratings appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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EPA Releases Confidential Farm Data
2013-02-21 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The National Pork Producers Council is extremely troubled by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s release earlier this month to several activist groups of personal information on US hog farmers and on other livestock and poultry farmers and, possibly, business-confidential data on their farms.
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EPA Official Quits Amid E-Mail Scrutiny
2013-02-20 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A senior Environmental Protection Agency official overseeing states in the West and Great Plains resigned Friday, amid intense congressional scrutiny over how EPA appointees have used personal e-mail addresses to conduct official business. Region 8 administrator James Martin, whose office has jurisdiction over Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 tribal nations, resigned "for personal reasons' according to EPA spokeswoman Alisha Johnson. Former EPA administrator...
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Obama Settles on EPA, Energy Department Nominees
2013-02-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process. McCarthy would likely become the face of Obama's latest push to fight climate change. Currently the assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, she would replace Lisa Jackson, who stepped down as EPA chief this month....
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