Court Overturns Illegal Bush-era Soot Pollution Standard
WASHINGTON, DC, February 25, 2009 (ENS) – A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Bush-era clean air standards were insufficient, sending them back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be rewritten in a way that will better protect public health. The court decided that the Bush EPA had acted illegally in issuing weak air [...]
Read More »Farmworkers Sue to Block Use of Four Toxic Pesticides
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 9, 2008 (ENS) – A coalition of farmworker advocates and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Friday, seeking to force a halt to the use of four organophosphate pesticides. Some of these pesticides have been detected in California’s rural schoolyards and homes, Sequoia National Park, and [...]
Read More »Four Waters of Maui Removed From Private Control
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 21, 2008 (ENS) – One of Hawaii’s longest-standing water disputes was settled this week when the state Commission on Water Resources Management decided in a unanimous vote to designate four waterways on the island of Maui as a “water management area” under the state Water Code. The designation, effective once public notice [...]
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