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Lawn mowers must go green by 2011, EPA says
Associated PressWASHINGTON—Gasoline-powered lawn mowers that are a big cause of air pollution will have to be dramatically cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The long-awaited regulation requires a 35 percent reduction in...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Litigation and Regulation, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Environmental Politics, Regional Authority
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EPA won't cut quota for ethanol in cars
The Associated PressThe Environmental Protection Agency yesterday denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut the federal ethanol mandate in half for a year. Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson spoke to Perry about his waiver...Tags: Market and Exchange, Rick Perry, Elections, Prices, Petroleum Industry
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EPA silences employees
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its pollution enforcement officials not to talk with congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press....Tags: Employees, The White House, Global Warming, Environmental Politics, National Government
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No action on greenhouse gases
Associated PressThe Bush administration, dismissing the recommendations of its top experts, has rejected regulating the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cripple to the U.S. economy. In a 588-page federal notice released yesterday, the...Tags: Elections, Global Warming, Conservation, Court Administration, Petroleum Industry
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Cheney accused of censoring
Associated PressVice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases,...Tags: The White House, Elections, Conservation, Health Organizations, National Government
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What's next
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson is expected to issue an "advanced notice of proposed rule making" either this week or next week that outlines the issues surrounding greenhouse gas emissions from new vehicles but takes no...Tags: Global Warming, Environmental Politics
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White House balks on EPA documents
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Friday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over documents sought by a House investigative panel, stepping up a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone...Tags: Regional Authority, The White House, Global Warming, Environmental Politics
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Decision on lower ethanol quota delayed
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday put off a decision on Texas' request to temporarily lower ethanol requirements for gasoline, a change Gov. Rick Perry says is needed to rein in corn prices. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said the...Tags: Regional Authority, Rick Perry, Ethanol, Environmental Politics
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Ex-EPA official: Cheney office tried to alter testimony
Chicago Tribune NewspapersBy Richard Simon WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in order to play down the threat of global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gas emissions,...Tags: Newspapers, The White House, Global Warming, Health Organizations, Environmental Politics
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Ex-EPA aide: Cheney staff censored warning on climate
WASHINGTON - Members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday. In a letter to Sen....Tags: Barack Obama, The White House, Global Warming, Conservation, Health Organizations
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Senators criticize EPA's parks air plan
Associated PressKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks. The proposed change, pending...Tags: Thomas Carper, Judd Gregg, Air Pollution, Environmental Politics, Metal and Mineral
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