Word: epa
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...EPA has refused to comply with this clear statutory command. Instead, it has offered a laundry list of reasons not to regulate...
JUSTICE JOHN PAUL STEVENS, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that found that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by not limiting heat-trapping greenhouse gases in vehicle emissions; the court said the EPA has the power to regulate those pollutants...
...greenhouse gases are in the majority," says Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. But when your last good position is to debate the difference between certain and extra certain, you're playing a losing hand. "The science," says Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (epa), "now is getting to the point where it's pretty hard to deny." Indeed it is. Atmospheric levels of CO2 were 379 parts per million (p.p.m.) in 2005, higher than at any time in the past 650,000 years. Of the 12 warmest years on record, 11 occurred between...
...roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before. Says Carol Browner, onetime administrator of the EPA: "It's a sea change from where we were on this issue." Here are the ways that sea is shifting the most...
...hardly been a picnic though. In January 2005 Veolia issued a boil-water advisory after allowing some subpar water into the system, and came under fierce local criticism for playing fast and loose with public safety. Hewitt insists that the water quality always met EPA standards and that the incident could as easily have happened in a municipally run facility. "We went into this deal with our eyes open, knowing we'd have better and worse years. This is a long-term investment. The Europeans are very patient. And we're on target for success over the 20-year period...