EPA Proposes More Monitors for Airborne Lead
Spurred in part by a petition filed in January 2009, the Agency's new rule, if finalized, could add approximately 240 monitors in about 40 states near known lead emission sources.
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Mapping Tool Allows New Way To Cover EPA Enforcement Actions
With data on ~4,600 civil and criminal enforcement actions in fiscal year 2009, you can determine trends by state and EPA Region for type and extent of enforcement; track down enforcement actions in areas of interest to your audience; and serve as a starting point for stories that are seemingly unrelated to an enforcement action.
Feds Release New Info on Climate-Plant Connections
Research and policy discussions are focusing on both natural plant systems and domesticated ones, especially agriculture — one possible effect being shifts in water availability.
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Get an international perspective with IPS news stories written by professional journalists of Africa, Asia-Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, MidEast & Mediterranean, and North America, about their local areas.
"Rustlers Ride Wide Open Range of Great Basin"
"Out of pride and a reluctance to point a finger at neighbors, ranchers in the vast Great Basin outback where Oregon, Idaho and Nevada come together have been slow to admit that someone in their midst, perhaps even someone they know from barbecues and brandings, has been stealing cattle. Just who is doing it, and how they have gotten away with it for at least three years, remains a mystery."
Source: AP, 01/06/2010
"B.L.M. Expedites Review of Energy Projects"
"Thirty–one proposed renewable energy and power transmission projects have been put on the fast track for approval by the Bureau of Land Management, with the aim of getting them paid for with stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
Source: Green Inc., 01/06/2010
"EPA Enforcement-Related Penalties Plummeted in Fiscal 2009"
"U.S. EPA during the first year of the Obama administration saw deep declines in the amount of penalties assessed against polluters and pounds of pollution slashed through enforcement activities compared with the previous year, according to data released by the agency last month."
Source: Greenwire, 01/06/2010
"U.S. Car Ownership Shifts Into Reverse"
"Americans' infatuation with their cars has endured through booms and busts, but last year something rare happened in the United States: The number of automobiles actually fell."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 01/06/2010
"Tests Find Antibiotic, Other Contaminants in Tampa's Drinking Water"
"The tap water that Tampa residents consume is contaminated with low levels of antibiotics, nicotine byproducts and a chemical used to produce firefighting foams."
Source: Tampa Tribune, 01/06/2010
"A New Hurdle for Cape Wind?"
"In a new setback for a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, guaranteeing further delays for the project."
Source: NYTimes, 01/06/2010
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