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Lately, however, the courts have been pushing back. In March a federal circuit court in Washington strengthened the new-source-review requirements by refusing to sanction a loophole that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had introduced, and last month a circuit court in Chicago forbade a move by the Cinergy power corporation to measure its pollution output hour to hour rather than year to year, because the hourly standard often produces a lower, less accurate reading of emissions. In November the U.S. Supreme Court will address the same measurement question in a case out of North Carolina. All those battles...
...More than a dozen state governments across the U.S. are getting ahead of Washington with mercury controls of their own. Foreign governments have also acted. "Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan have been reducing their use of mercury for five to 10 years," says Linda Greer, a member of the EPA's science advisory board...
...After the storm, FEMA cleaned up to the refuge's property line - and stopped. Congressman Charles Boustany (R-La.) blames the Stafford Act, which doesn't allow FEMA to work on government land. "We had the Army Corps of engineers and the EPA down there, but they couldn't go on federal property," he says. "You could see where the cleanup work was being done, and 100 yards over, there's horrendous debris and hazardous tanks - and nobody's touching...
...word out to kids at an early age, the EPA has shipped free SunWise kits to more than 13,500 elementary and middle schools. Arizona last year started requiring its public schools to participate in the program, which explains UV risks and emphasizes the use of sunscreen. But to reach teens and pierce their aura of invincibility, dermatologists are getting a lot more graphic. Some visit schools to display photographs of people with seemingly normal complexions alongside pictures filtered to reveal how freakishly mottled their skin really is from UV damage. Others show close-ups of oozing moles...
...July 14 while trying to strip live electrical wire off a utility pole. In additon to the 240 to 460 volts in air conditioners, potential dangers include the inhalation of Freon, a refrigerant illegal to release into the atmosphere. "That's a crime in and of itself with the EPA," said J. D. Points, vice president of Dalco...