Something Is Rotten at the EPA
The EPA is charged with keeping our communities safe from environmental degradation, something we Latinos know first hand. Sixty-six percent of us live dangerously close to a toxic site.
The EPA is charged with keeping our communities safe from environmental degradation, something we Latinos know first hand. Sixty-six percent of us live dangerously close to a toxic site.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson has declined to explain before Congress how a conclusion he made last year th...
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
Let's drop any pretenses that Bush may embrace serious climate change legislation. His recognition of the crisis would come years too late, and his actions continue to speak volumes.
David Sassoon | Posted 07.14.2008 | Green
No matter how you slice it, the regulation of greenhouse gases will have a profound effect on every sector of the economy. And we need profound effects, quickly.
Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
The American people need the head of the EPA to be an independent advocate for their health and their environment. In the end, this is about protecting the public and the planet.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
This revelation comes after President Bush evoked executive privilege to withhold information on his intervention in the lowering of the rural and California smog standards.
Janet Ritz | Posted 06.21.2008 | Green
Today the President has asserted executive privilege to prevent the Committee from learning why he and his staff overruled EPA.
Carl Pope | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green
In most states, it's illegal to connect your toilet so that it drains through your tap. But on a larger scale, the Bush EPA is prepared to declare that this is in effect allowed under the Clean Water Act.
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.07.2008 | Green
I think we can all agree that we need agencies like the EPA to remain fully independent and only be staffed with the most dedicated, qualified individuals. Let's hope the next administration helps return the agency to relevancy.
Carl Pope | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
"Who's afraid of a library book, a library book, a library book? Who's afraid of a library book, so close to the election?" I've changed the old nurs...
Janet Ritz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Four in ten environmental scientists said the political interference they'd been experiencing is more prevalent in the last five years.
Carl Pope | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson has finally gone over the top.
Think Progress | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson decided to modestly tighten smog standards, a decision directly "overru...
Carl Pope | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Environmental Protection Agency staff are as upset at what administrator Stephen Johnson has instructed them to do as they are at what he has failed to do.
LA Times | Richard Simon and Janet Wilson | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
The Bush administration Wednesday denied California's bid to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, dealing a blow to the state's attempt...
Carl Pope | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
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Javier Sierra | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green