environmental protection agency

For many people, the Environmental Protection Agency conjures up images of thugs who come beat you with a bag of doorknobs if you don't recycle your plastic. While the agency does have the power to fine and sanction anyone who is not complying with strict environmental standards, the goal of the agency has always been and always will be to simply make America cleaner and safer.

When President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (with Congress's backing) on December 2, 1970, it is doubtful he had any idea how big and powerful the agency would come in just a few short decades. The agency now has approximately 18,000 full-time employees who conduct environmental assessment, research, and education.

As can be expected, this research has created a lot of "Technological Jiggery Pokery." Everything from wind and wave turbines, solar power, wood pellets, hybrid cars, and recycling centers have all come into being because of the direction and vision of the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency also leverages this research to work with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.

Bloggers speaking about the Environmental Protection Agency can be found at such sites as globalwarmingisreal and greenversations.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “environmental protection agency”

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  Newly Proposed Legislation for Safer Chemicals
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  by yihyeewong / on Jun 9, 2010
• in Green
  Coal Ash as Toxic Waste
  Regulating toxic waste disposal
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “environmental protection agency”

 

• Beaverton to hold public workshops with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  
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  The agency and city will host a policy session from 8 to 11 a.m. and a community session from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Beaverton City Library.
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• Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

  
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  Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.        
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• Everybody sues the EPA

  
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  The state of Texas and our pollution-loving Attorney General do it because they think the EPA does too much to protect us from harm. Some other groups do it because they think the EPA isn’t doing enough . Ship Channel circa 1973 In the suit filed on Thursday, Air Alliance Houston and three other groups ...
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• Activists demand more jobs for city residents on major DC Water projects

  
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  With the District set to spend more than $2 billion over 15 years on a project to keep sewage out of local waterways , activists are pressing city officials to guarantee more jobs for D.C. residents, the people who will pay the bills. Read full article >>        
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• Safe Drinking Water Elusive for Many in California

  
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  Bureaucratic and technical obstacles have slowed the distribution of federal aid in places where water is laced with nitrates and other pollutants.        
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• EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Stymied By Republican Boycott

  
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  When a U.S. president nominates a candidate to take over the top spot at a major government agency such as the Defense Department, at least a few senators—usually from the opposing party—raise some objections, if for no other reason than to show that they will not rubber-stamp anyone the president proposes. But ...
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• Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal

  
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  Activists hauled polluted water from Appalachia to Washington, D.C. this week to draw attention to the plight of communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. The action comes as legislation was reintroduced in Congress to protect coalfield waterways. read more
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• Republicans boycott vote on EPA chief nominee

  
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  Republican senators on Thursday stalled the confirmation of President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they were “completely unsatisfied” with answers provided by Gina McCarthy on several topics. Their decision to boycott the Senate Environment Committee meeting on her ...
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• Chemical company president pleads guilty after failing to protect employees from deadly chemical

  
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  … The former president of a Port Arthur chemical company has pleaded guilty to criminal  charges for failing to properly protect employees from a deadly chemical and for making false statements.  One of his employees was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and died on Dec. 18, 2008. Matthew Lawrence Bowman, 41, of ...
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• Republicans Block Vote on Nominee to Lead E.P.A.

  
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  The Republicans said they were protesting what they called an inadequate response by the nominee, Gina McCarthy, to more than 1,000 written questions.        
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• Historic Washington Park Boathouse Prepped for the New Season with Pressure Washing by Wash On Wheels

  
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  Denver Pressure Washing Service | Wash On Wheels - Guaranteed Quality Since 1985 Press Release – May 9, 2013 Historic Washington Park Boathouse Prepped for the New Season with Pressure Washing by Wash On Wheels After a $1.3 million renovation completed in 2012, the historic Washington Park Boathouse just ...
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• Republican Senators Boycott Vote On Gina McCarthy’s Nomination To Head EPA

  
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  Zero Republicans show up to vote on Gina McCarthys nomination to be EPA Administrator. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee was scheduled to vote today at 9:15 on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be the next EPA Administrator. Despite the fact that she has answered more than a thousand of the ...
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• Imagining a Tea Partier Reacting to Huge Benefits of EPA Investment

  
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  Sure, $1 invested in the Environmental Protection Agency delivers $10 in benefits . But who gets that return? Probably lots of poor brown people, right? Then forget it! GET BIG GOVERNMENT OUT OF PROTECTING MY HEALTH.
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• Sequestration Update – Who’s Feeling the Pain

  
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  Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked into high gear. It rescued the event — held since 1878 — with money from ...
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• EPA May Restore High Compression Engines

  
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  Back in March the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced a plan to cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline. In the “small print” was an audacious reversal of policy that seeks to solve the three leading ethanol challenges in one move with higher compression.   The idea is deep in the 938-page text ...
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• Federal Water Tap, May 6: Federal Dollars for Hurricane Sandy Damage

  
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  Stemming the Flood The Environmental Protection Agency will allocate $US 569 million dollars to New Jersey and New York for water and sewer facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy last October. The money, authorized by Congress, will go into the states’ revolving loan funds for water infrastructure projects. Up to 30 ...
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• Texas versus EPA, round one zillion

  
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  The desire to coddle polluters is strong in this one. Ship Channel circa 1973 A Texas-led coalition of energy-producing states has asked the Supreme Court to hear a case involving the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. The petition, which ...
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• Economic Benefits of EPA Regulations Vastly Outweigh the Costs

  
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  During the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney claimed that the EPA was a tool President Obama was using to crush the American private enterprise system. He went on to say that many Democrats disliked capitalism and were doing everything they could to impede the growth of the economy by prioritizing the ...
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• E.P.A. Plan to Clean Up Gowanus Canal Meets Local Resistance

  
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  The Environmental Protection Agency’s $500 million proposal to clean the Gowanus Canal has worried Brooklyn residents about the effects on the air and a beloved swimming pool.        
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• New Studies Support Environmental Link to Autism

  
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  Several new studies presented at the International Society for Autism Research annual conference back up the notion that environmental factors before birth may play an important role in the development of autism. The causes of autism aren’t well understood but are thought to be multifaceted. Genetics likely account ...
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