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- Latino Community Development Agency of OKC receives EPA grant
- The Latino Community Development Agency of Oklahoma City has been awarded $25,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to help build a community rooftop garden at the former JCPenney building in the Capitol Hill district of Oklahoma City. Money for the project is part of more than $500,000 in...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Confronting an ugly past
- Creede - From above this historic mining town, Willow Creek is a river of poisons, with cadmium, lead and zinc-contaminated water flowing at 33 cubic feet per second. Devoid of fish, which can't live in the toxic water, the creek runs through the heart of...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Commentary: Wake up! The EPA's dream is a regulatory nightmare
- A rogue federal government agency threatens the well-being of Americans, and must be stopped. Is this a hot summer page turner, or perhaps the next challenge for Jack Bauer on "24?" No, it's your tax dollars at work. It's a story of judicial activism, political infighting,...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- Press Gaggle by Tony Fratto
- JACKSON, Miss. -- Aboard Air Force One En Route Jackson, Mississippi 12:02 P.M. EDT MR. FRATTO: Good morning. We're on our way to Jackson, Mississippi. The President had his normal briefings this morning. At 12:55 p.m. local time he'll attend a Senator Roger Wicker fundraiser, and it's...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Feds plan uranium cleanup on Navajo land
- CHURCH ROCK, N.M. -- This community has become a poster child on the Navajo Nation, but residents don't brag about it. Among the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines on the vast reservation the size of West Virginia, the Northeast Church Rock Mine here tops the list as...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- Status check on pending policy matters: several issues impacting nonwovens still under microscope as Bush administration prepares to leave the White House
- Now that the Bush administration is approaching its final six months and with the upcoming election season getting underway, it is a good time to take stock of various policy issues that are on the agenda for INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. In this article, therefore, we offer...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Topeka's housing agency receives energy honor
- By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Keeping Nancy Johnson warm this past winter and cool this summer will cost Cornerstone of Topeka less than $50 a month on average. Johnson is one of Cornerstone's newest tenants, having moved into the front half of a duplex...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- EPA to investigate lead threat from artificial turfs
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has become the latest federal agency to investi-gate the potential threat from lead in artificial turf, spokesman Dale Kemery said Wednesday. Synthetic turf fields have become increasingly popular at schools, public parks and playgrounds. Five older, nylon fields in Newark, Hoboken,...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- US govt to tighten lead emissions standards
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Environmental Protection Agency unveiled plans Thursday to significantly strengthen lead emissions standards, in the first revision of the regulations for 30 years. The proposals would reduce the amount of lead legally allowed in the air from 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air to...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- EPA libraries coming back: following an outcry over closings, the federal agency will reopen all shuttered facilities, staff them with info pros, and make them available to the public
- All Environmental Protection Agency libraries that were closed in budget-cutting actions will reopen by the end of September, the agency says in a report to Congress. Regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas, and Kansas City, plus the headquarters repository and chemical library in Washington, D.C., will reopen for walk-in or...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Denial of casino permit advised
- Two federal regulators have recommended denying the SugarHouse casino a key permit for building into the Delaware River, while a third is asking for more information from the developer. The recommendations were stated in letters filed this month with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and obtained by The Inquirer...
- Research articles 2008-04-26
- EPA pressed on contacts in greenhouse gas waiver
- WASHINGTON -- A House committee chairman issued a subpoena Wednesday seeking records of contacts between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency officials concerning California's tailpipe emissions law. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, said he has found evidence that officials from the White House and the agency...
- Research articles 2008-04-10
- INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION
- Statement of Jeff Miotke Deputy Assistant Secretary, Science, Space, and Health U.S. Department of State Committee on House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education April 2, 2008 Mr. Chairman and Members of this Committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address the...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- IBM says suspended from new work with US agencies
- WASHINGTON AFP — Technology giant IBM said Monday it had been temporarily suspended from seeking new business with US federal agencies, amid an investigation into possible procurement irregularities. The suspension was issued by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, which is probing "possible violations" of federal procurement rules in a...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Official: Meds in water 'not currently a priority'
- PHILADELPHIA -- Just a century ago, this historic city notched by the Delaware and Schuylkill treated these rivers as public sewers, but few cared until the waters ran black with stinking filth that spread cholera and typhoid. Today, municipal drinking water is cleansed of germs -- but not drugs. ...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- No standards limit medicine in water
- PHILADELPHIA -- Just a century ago, this historic city notched by the Delaware and Schuylkill treated these rivers as public sewers, but few cared until the waters ran black with stinking filth that spread cholera and typhoid. Today, municipal drinking water is cleansed of germs -- but not drugs. ...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Official: Meds in water 'not currently a priority'
- PHILADELPHIA -- Just a century ago, this historic city notched by the Delaware and Schuylkill treated these rivers as public sewers, but few cared until the waters ran black with stinking filth that spread cholera and typhoid. Today, municipal drinking water is cleansed of germs -- but not drugs. ...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Defining toxic: federal agencies look to cells, not animals, for chemical testing
- Government scientists are launching an ambitious collaboration to shift the testing of potentially toxic chemicals away from animals to methods that use high-speed automated robots. The robots would test chemicals on human cells at various concentrations, generating data relevant to humans faster and more cheaply than current methods, researchers from...
- Research articles 2008-02-23
- US agreement could mark end of animal tests.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)
- Animal welfare groups are hailing an agreement between three US government agencies, which they say could spell the end to animal testing of chemicals and drugs. The Environmental Protection Agency EPA, the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of Health have signed a...
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- Agreement could bring end to animal testing
- An ambitious program announced Thursday by a coalition of government agencies could lead to the end of animal testing to evaluate the safety for humans of new chemicals and drugs. Three agencies -- the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of...
- Research articles 2008-02-15
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