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...disgusting move by a federal regulatory agency to satisfy the Bush administration’s political allies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has loosened restrictions on high-polluting industrial plants. The change to the “New Source Review” program will allow the worst air polluters to continue polluting at 1977 levels for many decades to come...
...refineries that cannot afford to reduce pollution to today’s standards should not be operating in the first place. The government should scrap Bush’s New Source Review changes and instead force all factories that pollute above modern limits to clean up their acts. The EPA should enforce these limits, with high financial penalties if necessary. Many companies have put off environmental improvements for far to long, and the burden should not fall on the American people who breathe the polluted...
...such as tuna and swordfish even once a week may be linked to fatigue, headaches, inability to concentrate and hair loss, all symptoms of low-level mercury poisoning. In a study of 123 fish-loving subjects, the researchers found that 89% had blood levels of methylmercury that exceeded the EPA standard by as much as 10 times. The problem with big fish is that they're at the top of the pelagic food chain, accumulating mercury from smaller fry and then passing it on to you. The good news: if you stop eating seafood or limit your consumption...
Opponents got a boost last month when a draft report leaked from the EPA's Denver office called the project, which doesn't need congressional approval, "environmentally unacceptable." Aware that such a harsh verdict could delay the project indefinitely, Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles, a former energy lobbyist, asked the EPA to reconsider. The agency's final evaluation is expected this week. But there is another roadblock: the Interior Department's own board of appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been...
Other local companies who have earned the EPA “Commuter Choice Employer” distinction include UMass Amherst, Applied Geographics in Boston, and Cambridgeside Galleria in Cambridge...