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		<title>New Surface Mining Chief Cracks Down on Mountaintop Removal, Valley Fills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of the Interior is taking immediate actions to strengthen its oversight of state surface coal mining programs. The agency will issue federal regulations to better protect streams affected by surface coal mining operations, such as mountaintop removal mining, Interior officials announced today.]]></description>
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		<title>Science Report: Climate Change Speeding Toward Irreversible Tipping Points</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The speed and scope of global warming is now overtaking even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, finds a new report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme, entitled "Climate Change Science Compendium 2009."]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Energy Efficiency Could Halve U.S. Greenhouse Gases by 2050</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy efficiency investments can provide up to half the greenhouse gas emissions reductions most scientists say are needed between now and the year 2050 to avert the worst effects of climate change, finds a new report from the nonprofit and independent American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, ACEEE. ]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Invests $2 Million in Philadelphia Drinking Water Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today presented a $2 million grant to Philadelphia to help the city address the risk of intentional contamination of its drinking water by diseases, pests, or poisonous agents. The federal agency says it could make a total of $9.5 million available to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Revisits Bush-Era Denial of California Tailpipe Emissions Waiver</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, February 6, 2009 (ENS) &#8211; In accordance with President Barack Obama&#8217;s order in January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider its decision denying California permission to set standards controlling greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. The waiver request was made by California on December 21, 2005, to allow the state the right to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal Ash Spills Could Happen at Dumps Across USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Nearly 100 coal ash dumps across the United States pose similar or even greater potential dangers than the eastern Tennessee site that spilled a billion gallons of toxic sludge and contaminated water last month, finds a report released today by environmentalists. The study warns that the Bush administration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapanos Will Pay for Clean Water Act Violations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT, Michigan, December 30, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; In long-running case that affects the scope of federal jurisdiction over wetlands and other waters, developer John Rapanos and related defendants agreed Monday to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act at three sites in Midland and Bay counties, Michigan. Rapanos has agreed to pay a $150,000 civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Ship Discharges Now Need Clean Water Permit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, December 19, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A new general permit will reduce releases of 26 types of discharges from vessels operating in U.S. waters, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Beginning today, some 61,000 domestically flagged commercial vessels and 8,000 foreign flagged vessels will need to comply with the discharge permit. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Debuts Thermostat Recycling to Lower Mercury Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PAOLI, Pennsylvania, December 18, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; That thermostat on the wall that allows residents to control the temperature of their rooms contains the deadly neurotoxin mercury. But fewer Pennsylvanians will face mercury exposure now that Pennsylvania&#8217;s new Mercury-Free Thermostat Law is in place, say state environmental regulators. &#8220;This law is another means of protecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Report Advises Cumulative Risk Assessment of Phthalates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, December 18, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, particularly to the male reproductive system, says a new report from the National Research Council. This analysis, called a cumulative risk assessment, is warranted, said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ExxonMobil Fined for Violating Clean Air Decree at Four Refineries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, December 17, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; ExxonMobil has agreed to pay nearly $6.1 million in civil penalties for violating the terms of a 2005 court-approved Clean Air Act agreement, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. &#8220;The Department of Justice will not tolerate violation of our consent decrees,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA&#8217;s Most Wanted Fugitives Featured on New Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a page from the book of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is now posting pictures and descriptions of fugitive environmental lawbreakers or those accused of environmental crimes on a new website. The EPA&#8217;s Most Wanted site opened today at: http://www.epa.gov/fugitives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highest U.S. Court Ponders Power Plants and Fish Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, December 4, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court is wrestling with the difficulty of valuing fish and aquatic organisms with little or no commercial worth, hearing arguments in a legal dispute over what steps older power plants should take to limit water use and minimize environmental harm. In oral arguements Tuesday, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Proposes Cleanup for Onondaga Lake Tributaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, New York, November 28, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will unveil proposals to clean up contaminated soils in two Onondaga Lake tributaries at a public meeting on December 10. The meeting will be held to present the plans, to elaborate on the reasons for recommending the preferred remedies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Health Damaged by Ag Nutrients in Drinking Water</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/11/more-than-health-damaged-by-ag-nutrients-in-drinking-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANHATTAN, Kansas, November 24, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The pollution of fresh water by agricultural nutrients costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion a year in total, finds new research from Kansas State University. Biology professor Walter Dodds, who led the study, says the researchers calculated that $44 million a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-year Milestones Set to Speed Chesapeake Bay Restoration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, November 24, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; To accelerate progress toward cleaning up the nation&#8217;s largest estuary, the Chesapeake Executive Council agreed at its annual meeting on Thursday to set restoration milestones every two years. These milestones will focus the partnership on achieving the Chesapeake Bay Program&#8217;s science-based goals to reduce excess levels of nitrogen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club Wins Appeal of Coal Plant Air Permit</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/11/sierra-club-wins-appeal-of-coal-plant-air-permit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, November 13, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; In a case with national implications, the Environmental Appeals Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled today that the EPA had no valid reason for refusing to require that best available control technology be used to limit carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant proposed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Encourages Americans to Bring their Green to Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New ENERGY STAR&#174; Online Tool Provides Employees with Workplace Energy Saving Tips The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed the new @ work tool for people who didn&#8217;t want to stop their energy conservation actions for 8 hours each day when they were at work. With the average American worker spending 40 hours a week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rule: Clean Water Permits Voluntary for Factory Farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, November 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Bush administration finalized a rule Friday that allows more than 15,000 factory farms across the country to avoid certain requirements of the Clean Water Act if they claim they do not discharge animal wastes into lakes, rivers and streams. Federal officials said the rule will help protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronics Recyclers Held to New National Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/11/electronics-recyclers-held-to-new-national-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, November 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Recycling obsolete electronics is getting easier and more convenient as more manufacturers take responsibility for collecting and recycling older, unwanted equipment. Dell Computers and Goodwill, for instance, this week launched Reconnect, a free computer recycling service in the greater New York city and eastern New York state area. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Mile of Grand Calumet River Gets $33 Million Cleanup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAMMOND, Indiana, October 27, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and Department of Natural Resources are joining forces in a $33 million effort to restore a little over one mile of the Grand Calumet River. The plan calls for the cleanup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert Report: EPA Stormwater Program Needs &#8220;Radical Changes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/10/expert-report-epa-stormwater-program-needs-radical-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 15, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Increased water volume and pollutants from stormwater have degraded water quality and habitats in virtually every urban stream system in the United States, says a new report from the National Research Council. The committee of experts that wrote the report says, &#8220;Radical changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Stampede Recycles Football Game Waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOULDER, Colorado, October 10, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Football fans going to Colorado Buffaloes games are having a hard time trying to find a trash can at Boulder&#8217;s Folsom Field this season. Traditional cans have been replaced by recycle and compost bins by University of Colorado&#8217;s athletic department. The Colorado Buffaloes are the first major collegiate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Won&#8217;t Regulate Rocket Fuel Toxic in Drinking Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water at sites in at least 35 states, will not be regulated at the national level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided. The agency announced its preliminary decision not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water late Friday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Number One Inland Oil Polluter in Trouble Again</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/10/californias-number-one-inland-oil-polluter-in-trouble-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; An oil company that state and federal officials have called California&#8217;s number one inland oil polluter has failed to meet multiple deadlines to clean up leaks from settling ponds on one of its leases, so the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week took over partial cleanup operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA&#8217;s Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard Controversial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Sixteen years after Congress first ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish radiation release standards for the proposed spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the agency has announced its final standards. The Yucca Mountain site is located 90 miles northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Chino Dairies Ordered to Control Manure Runoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, California, October 2, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Six dairies in the Chino, California area have been ordered to comply with California Regional Water Quality Control Board permit requirements by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Through an administrative order, the EPA is ordering Brothers Three Dairy, Quality Dairy, Jorritsma and Anema Dairy, Martin Vander Laan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate-Friendly Greenfreezers Come to the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 1, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Greenpeace and Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s have jointly launched the first ice cream freezer using climate-friendly technology in the United States. Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s will be running trials of these hydrocarbon freezers in the Boston and DC areas while the company seeks approval for widespread commercial use from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Left 135 Impaired Water Bodies Off Official List</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/09/missouri-left-135-impaired-water-bodies-off-official-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Kansas, September 25, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Missouri&#8217;s most recent list of impaired waters left out 135 water bodies that contain pollutants above the levels permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act, according to a proposed decision announced Wednesday by the federal agency. The EPA did approve Missouri&#8217;s listing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Faulted for Failing to Control E-Waste Exports</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/09/epa-faulted-for-failing-to-control-e-waste-exports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, September 18, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; U.S. hazardous waste regulations have not stopped exports of toxic used electronics to developing countries, partly because they are not being enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, finds a new report issued Wednesday by the investigative branch of Congress. In the report commissioned by the House Committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Hazwaste Incinerator Permitted Despite Explosions, Fires</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/09/illinois-hazwaste-incinerator-permitted-despite-explosions-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS, Missouri, September 15, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Veolia hazardous waste incinerator in Sauget, with its long history of explosions and toxic chemical releases, was issued a clean air permit on Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The incinerator has been operating without a permit since 1995. Located on the Missouri-Illinois border next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA: General Electric Must Revise River Clean Up Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/09/epa-general-electric-must-revise-river-clean-up-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 10, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; General Electric&#8217;s cleanup proposal for PCB contamination of the Housatonic River south of Pittsfield, Massachusetts raises more than 150 concerns, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The river sediment is polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, south of the GE property where the company formerly manufactured electrical equipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Kills Controversial Yazoo Pumps Flood Control Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC September 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Yazoo Pumps Project, proposed to drain wetlands in the Mississippi Delta for flood control, will not be built. On Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its final decision under the Clean Water Act to prohibit construction of the project first proposed by the U.S. Army Corps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exxon Let PCBs Leak for Years Off Santa Barbara Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, California, August 25, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Between 2002 and 2005, two large electrical transformers on an Exxon Mobil offshore oil and gas platform in the Santa Barbara Channel leaked nearly 400 gallons of fluid contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs. That long leak off the coast of Southern California has cost the Exxon Mobil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mysterious Honey Bee Disorder Buzzes into Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, August 19, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington DC to force the federal government to disclose studies on the effect of a new pesticide on honey bees. Studies on the pesticide, clothianidin, were ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Agrees to Set Beach Water Criteria By 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, California, August 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The association representing most of the country&#8217;s municipal sewerage agencies says it is satisfied with an settlement reached Friday that ensures its members will be represented as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency develops new criteria for beach water quality. The head of the National Association of Clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Expands Study of Pharmaceuticals in Waterways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to conduct a detailed study of the disposal methods used by hospitals, long-term care facilities, hospices and veterinary hospitals that wish to discard unused pharmaceuticals. The EPA is seeking more information on the practices of the health care industry to inform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan to Rid Freshwaters of Harmful Algal Blooms Short on Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, August 6, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; A report on ways to minimize the impacts of harmful algal blooms in freshwaters across the United States presented by federal government agencies on Monday offers few solutions and relies heavily on future research to develop responses to the noxious and often toxic plants. These algae can form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Quality at U.S. Vacation Beaches Slightly Improved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; There were fewer closings and health advisories due to polluted water at American beaches last year than in 2006, the worst year for beach water pollution, finds the annual report on beach water quality issued today by the Natural Resources Defense Council. But there is little room for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Bans Residues of Pesticide Carbofuran on Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Due to &#8220;considerable risks&#8221; of damage to human health and the environment associated with the pesticide carbofuran, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revoking the regulations that allow carbofuran residues in food. EPA&#8217;s carbofuran tolerance revocation proposal will be published for public comment on July 30, 2008. Carbofuran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Puts Off Renewable Fuels Waiver Decision to August</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; In April, Texas Governor Rick Perry requested a 50 percent waiver from the grain-based Renewable Fuels Standard mandated under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, enacted last December. The governor says corn prices are soaring because of the demand for corn to make ethanol, which also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clemson&#8217;s Excellent Watershed World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEMSON, South Carolina, July 20, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Clemson University&#8217;s Restoration Institute has been recognized as a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management in South Carolina by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As a Center of Excellence, the institute will receive EPA technical assistance, promotion to stakeholders; EPA letters of support for grant opportunities; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Department Faulted for Mishandling Hanford Nuclear Waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Energy doesn&#8217;t know enough about the condition and contents of millions of gallons of radioactive and hazardous wastes stored in tanks at its Hanford Site in Washington state to make good decisions about cleanup and costs, according to a new report by Congress&#8217;s investigative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety Measures Proposed for Soil Fumigant Pesticides</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/07/safety-measures-proposed-for-soil-fumigant-pesticides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 14, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; New draft safety measures for soil fumigant pesticides proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday require that users of these chemicals submit written, site-specific fumigant management plans before fumigations begin. All soil fumigant products will be classified as restricted-use pesticides, to ensure that only specially trained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Trapping or Is It Carbon Wasting?</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/07/carbon-trapping-or-is-it-carbon-wasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced that they have concluded a first draft of a carbon trapping rules. These rules would require smokestack owners to filter the emissions from their smokestacks and create liquified CO2 that could be stored underground. Granted, preventing pollution is a must, but in these troubled economic times in America, isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. EPA Chills Progress Towards Regulating Greenhouse Gases</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/07/us-epa-chills-progress-towards-regulating-greenhouse-gases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, July 11, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The Bush administration today asked for public comment on a long list of options for controlling greenhouse gas emissions under existing federal law, but emphasized that it has no intention of pursuing any of them. The announcement confirms that the Bush administration will not move to regulate greenhouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Set to Approve Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Air Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/07/epa-set-to-approve-dallas-fort-worth-clean-air-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS, Texas, July 3, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; With more than $100 million in funding from two state programs, the smoggy air of the Dallas-Fort Worth area has been cleared to the point that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced its proposed approval of the area&#8217;s clean air plan. Tuesday, the regional EPA gathered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Power, Cleaner Cars, Carbon Trading in California&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2008/06/green-power-cleaner-cars-carbon-trading-in-californias-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, California, June 29, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; By the year 2020, California utilities will produce a third of their energy from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal, under a draft plan to address climate change released Thursday by the California Air Resources Board. Overall, the Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan aims to reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Passaic River to Be Cleaned of Dioxin-Laden Sediment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWARK, New Jersey, June 25, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; The removal of contaminated sediment from the lower Passaic River took a step forward Monday when an agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and two companies was signed at a park overlooking the river. The deal requires Occidental Chemical and Tierra Solutions to remove 200,000 cubic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Costly Corn for Feed, Not Fuel, Texas Governor Urges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2008 (ENS) &#8211; Texas Governor Rick Perry is asking the federal government to reduce by half the amount of corn-based ethanol that must be blended into the national fuel supply under the national Renewable Fuel Standard, RFS. Instead of being used for fuel, the governor wants that corn to feed livestock [...]]]></description>
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