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...settle a lawsuit brought by some 50,000 people who lived along the Ohio River near its West Virginia plant. They claimed PFOA contamination had caused birth defects and other health problems. The company admitted no liability but in December 2005 made a settlement with the EPA based on eight violations for failing to disclose its own findings on the safety of PFOA. This April, hearings began in a class action against the company by nonstick-cookware users from 15 states. In January, an EPA advisory board labeled PFOA a likely human carcinogen...
...tapers off after Labor Day. And thanks to a presidential directive, the crude is flowing; 30 million bbl. from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is being loaned to companies like Exxon. In addition, foreign producers in 25 countries have pledged another 30 million bbl. of crude and refined product. The EPA is allowing sales of less stringently refined fuel, and President Bush is permitting foreign vessels to ferry oil and gas between U.S. ports (suspending a law prohibiting such transport...
Carol M. Browner, the longest serving administrator in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke about the dangers of climate change in a speech yesterday that combined science and policy with frequent jabs at critics of the science behind climate change. Speaking to a crowd of 75 at Harvard Law School’s Hauser Hall, Browner, the EPA chief during the entire Clinton administration, said that if “we don’t take action against climate change, we risk being the first generation to pass on to the next generation a problem that...
...programmable thermostat. It will save you about 1,800 lbs. of CO2 annually. Invest in energy-efficient appliances. (Ones with the EPA?s EnergyStar label are a good bet.) Replacing a 20-year-old refrigerator with a high-efficiency model can lower CO2 emissions by 1 ton per year. A new washing machine that uses less water and less energy can cut emissions...
...that meeting, though, officials were surprised to see a new face--Philip Perry. As the top lawyer for the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Perry helped oversee Administration regulatory initiatives. According to Bob Bostock, then homeland-security adviser at the EPA, Perry, who hadn't attended any of the prior meetings, declared the proposal dead in a matter of minutes. "Perry said that any federal legislation to deal with this issue would be dead on arrival on the Hill," recalls Bostock, "and that the chemical industry was taking voluntary steps that were sufficient." Perry, who is married...