| July 11, 2008 | - The Environmental Protection Agency announced that the value of an American's “statistical life” was $6.9 million, $1 million less than 5 years ago.
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AP
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| August 9, 2005 | - The Environmental Protection Agency was working on ways to limit the radioactivity of the planned Yucca Mountain, Nevada, nuclear-waste dump for the next 1 million years.
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FOX News
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| April 10, 2005 | - The EPA decided to cancel a study of the effects of pesticides on infants.
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Salt Lake Tribune
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| January 26, 2005 | - totaling 13 times the Environmental Protection Agency's allotment,
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Swissinfo
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| August 25, 2004 | - The head of the EPA said that fish in almost all lakes and rivers and streams in the United States are contaminated with mercury, for which there is no safe exposure level.
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New York Times
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| July 30, 2004 | - The Bush Administration issued a new rule that will permit the EPA to approve pesticides without finding out from wildlife agencies whether the chemicals will harm plants and animals protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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Associated Press
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| July 9, 2004 | - The EPA announced that it will fine DuPont for failing to report significant test results relating to a chemical used in making Teflon that was found in drinking water near factories and in the fetus of a pregnant employee.
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New York Times
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| June 23, 2004 | - Toxic chemical pollution was up 5 percent in 2002, the EPA announced.
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Associated Press
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| May 20, 2004 | - The EPA approved an air-pollution rule on formaldehyde emissions based on a cancer risk model created by the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology; the new standard is 10,000 times weaker than the EPA's previous regulation for such emissions.
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Los Angeles Times
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| March 17, 2004 | - Several officials at the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the administration has refused to perform scientific studies to determine the effects of its new mercury emissions policy, a policy that was largely written by the industries responsible for most mercury pollution.
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Seattle Times
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| February 4, 2004 | - A former EPA microbiologist testified that the agency knowingly used bad data to reject a petition to prohibit the use of sewage sludge (known euphemistically as "biosolids") as fertilizer.
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CBS News
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| January 8, 2004 | - American researchers found that farm-raised salmon have ten times the PCB, dioxin, and pesticide contamination of wild salmon. Using EPA risk estimates, the scientists suggested that people eat no more than 110 grams, or about half a normal portion, of Maine salmon a month; Scottish salmon, among the most contaminated in the study, which analyzed fish from all over the world, should be limited to 55 grams a month.
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New Scientist
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| November 6, 2003 | - Lawyers at the Environmental Protection Agency announced that they were dropping lawsuits against 50 power plants for violating the Clean Air Act, because newly weakened enforcement rules have undermined the cases.
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New York Times
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| June 24, 2003 | - The Environmental Protection Agency issued its first comprehensive report on the American environment but failed to give much attention to global warming; it was reported last week that White House officials edited the passages that had originally focused on the subject.
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New York Times
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| June 6, 2003 | - An internal study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that about 25 percent of the country's biggest industrial and water-treatment plants routinely violate pollution standards and that the agency does too little to correct the situation.
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Washington Post
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| June 4, 2003 | - The Federal Communications Commission voted to relax restrictions on media ownership.
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Undernews
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| February 25, 2003 | -
Seven states announced that they will file suit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce the Clean Air Act, which requires the EPA to review and update its standards every eight years.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler was suspended from duty for publishing a letter to the editor in a California newspaper in which he called President Bush “a joke.” President Bush was asked about the recent report by the EPA that contradicted many of his previous statements on global warming: “I read the report put out by the bureaucracy,” he replied, and then he reiterated his opposition to doing anything about global warming.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The EPA decided how much radioactive waste would be allowed to leak from the proposed dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
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| April 24, 2001 | - The Environmental Protection Agency decided to honor new Clinton Administration rules strengthening the protection of wetlands.
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| April 3, 2001 | - The United States withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change; Christie Whitman, the administrator of the EPA, announced that “we have no interest in implementing that treaty.” President Bush told German chancellor Gerhard Schröder that “We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first are the people who live in America.” North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong Il sent a large floral wreath to the funeral of Chung Ju Yung, the founder of the Hyundai group, in a further display of goodwill toward the south by the ruler of the Hermit Kingdom.
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| March 27, 2001 | - The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would withdraw new standards approved by the Clinton Administration that limited the amount of arsenic in drinking water.
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| March 20, 2001 | - After a heavy lobbying campaign by the electric industry, President George W. Bush broke a campaign promise and decided not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, humiliating Christie Whitman, his EPA administrator, and effectively killing the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. The President said that he was worried about an energy crisis and that he wasn't entirely convinced that global warming was real.
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| March 6, 2001 | - The United States Supreme Court rejected a challenge from industry groups to force the Environmental Protection Agency to use cost-benefit analysis in setting clean-air standards.
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| February 20, 2001 | - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals somehow managed to leave a voice-mail message from Jack Lemmon in 18,000 Environmental Protection Agency telephone mailboxes; Lemmon complained about the EPA's chemical-toxicity tests, which are conducted on cute, furry little animals.
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| January 9, 2001 | - packages directs consumers “not to apply this product in a way that will contact workers or other persons,” and the Environmental Protection Agency warns that pesticides such as Roundup can cause vomiting, pneumonia, tissue damage, and mental confusion.
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