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- The Long, Weak End
  Posted by Jeff from Grist
  The U.S. EPA is continuing its push to weaken clean-air rules near national parks before President Bush leaves office, despite the objection of national-park advocates and many of the agency's own administrators, according to The Washington Post. The rule revision would change the way air pollution is measured near national parks, allowing large pollution spikes throughout the year as long as a source's average annual emissions were below a certain threshold.
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- Bush to gut endangered species laws
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  If approved, the changes would represent the biggest overhaul of the Endangered Species Act since 1988. They would accomplish through new federal regulations what conservative Republicans have been unable to achieve in Congress: an end to some environmental reviews that developers and other federal agencies blame for delays and cost increases on many projects.
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- EPA knocks $900,000 off value of a life - raises bar for safety regulations
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May - a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the lifesaving benefits of a proposed rule. The less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for a regulation, such as tighter restrictions on pollution.
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- IBM suspension fallout
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  The US Environmental Protection Agency might have lifted its ban on IBM but the computer company is not out of the wars yet
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- Whitman on hot seat over 9/11 aftermath - Politics
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman was bombarded Monday with boos, hisses, and a host of accusations at a congressional hearing after making assurances it was safe to breathe the air around the ruined World Trade Center.
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- Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks
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  "The governor of Washington is scheduled to sign legislation today to ban flame retardants called PBDEs in furniture, televisions, and computers in the state. This is despite the more than $220,000 the chemical industry has spent since 2005 to defeat the legislation. At a time when the federal government is largely ineffectual in regulating long-used but potentially dangerous industrial chemicals, the Washington ban could be the beginning of the end for PBDEs across the nation.
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- Fish pollutants' link to diabetes
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  An international team found high levels of persistent organic pesticides (POPs) in the blood correlated to insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes. POPs are stored in fatty tissues - the study suggested this may be why obese people are more vulnerable to diabetes.
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soaringfalcon1 comments on:
Bush to gut endangered species laws

No species will be harmed by global climate change. Are you kidding me?
One of the most important ways the Endangered Species Act successfully protects endangered and threatened plants and animals is by requiring federal agencies to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) before approving a project that may harm those species. Very few projects are actually stopped by the Endangered Species Act; however the changes made to these projects are vital to ensuring that endangered species receive adequate protection.
The proposed changes in the rules unacceptably narrow the circumstances under which federal agencies are required to consult with the FWS or NMFS before approving projects such as permitting new oil and gas drilling or constructing federal highways.
If you want some hard science behind the Endangered Species Act, why wouldn’t you want the FWS and the NMFS checking to make sure the industrial "big guns" don’t just do whatever they want with our resources?
Looks like another degradation of the planet to this observer. Thank God Bush’s reign is nearly over before he bankrupts our grandkids as well as our kids.

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4:02 pm 8/30/08
mozellagi2000 comments on:
Bush to gut endangered species laws

This is a small counter balance to the way Clinton locked up coal resources at the end of his term. And something tells me that Bush will have plenty, but fewer pardons to hand out than Clinton.

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7:24 pm 8/12/08
vidyut comments on:
Bush to gut endangered species laws

hmm…. its high time. I only hope more environmentalists and scientists are involved in designing this change than politicians….

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1:26 am 8/12/08
Jeff comments on:
Bush to gut endangered species laws

The last six months of this administration’s regulatory rulings are going to make us wish we’d impeached him. As Jon Stewart joked the other night, let’s just get him a Eurorail pass and send him on vacation.

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5:14 pm 8/11/08
mynaffy comments on:
EPA knocks $900,000 off value of a life - raises bar for safety regulations

ilike good

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11:34 am 7/12/08
mynaffy comments on:
EPA knocks $900,000 off value of a life - raises bar for safety regulations

ilike good

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11:34 am 7/12/08