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...with 2009 models, eventually leading to a 30% reduction in overall global warming emissions by model year 2016. Sixteen other states, both red and blue, have moved to adopt California's standards since, but to implement the legislation, Sacramento needed a routine waiver from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
...should have been simple - such a waiver has been granted to the nation's most populous state more than 50 times in the past. But for nearly two years, the EPA has delayed making a decision. The federal agency says it needs more time to make the right call; its critics claim the Bush Administration is playing politics. Finally today California ran out of patience, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Attorney General Jerry Brown announced from the steps of the state Capitol that they would sue the EPA, demanding immediate action on the waiver. "California is ready to implement...
...NRDC tested products, including those labeled "all-natural" or "unscented," and found a wide range of phthalate content, from zero parts per million (ppm) to 7,300 ppm. Many air fresheners contained a phthalate known as DEP and some also contained DBP, which are listed by the California EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as a developmental toxin and female and male reproductive toxin, respectively...
Gupta said, "Scientists have yet to document a definite, long-term negative effect of pesticides on our bodies." Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living things. It is because pesticides are harmful that the EPA and USDA have set limits on pesticide residues. These limits assume that everyone eats an average diet. If you eat more than the average amount of any one food, you exceed the safe limit. Don Steinke, VANCOUVER, WASH...
Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living things. It is because pesticides are harmful that the EPA and USDA have set limits on pesticide residues. These limits assume that everyone eats an average diet. If you eat more than the average amount of any one food, you exceed the safe limit...