EPA

Puget Sound 'tub' tainted by industrial residue of toxic dioxin

Bellamy Pailthorp — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:50:00 +0000

When you think about Puget Sound, a bathtub might not be the first image to come to mind.

But that’s one way environmentalists and scientists sometimes describe it, because the shape of Puget Sound is an important factor when it comes to keeping it clean.

A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency on the health effects of dioxin is confirming what many experts have known for a long time.

EPA creates Website to ID biggest emitters of greenhouse gases

Richard Harris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:05:50 +0000

Ever wondered who the big greenhouse-gas emitters are in your neck of the woods? The answer is now just a click away.

The US Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled a new website that identifies most of the nation's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. It lets you, for example:

-- Click near Macon, Ga., and home in on the nation's largest single-point source of greenhouse gases: the Scherer power plant (actually four huge coal-burning facilities).

Idaho couple puts wetlands rules to the test in U.S. Supreme Court

Jessica Robinson — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:37:32 +0000

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho – A fight over less than an acre of land in a remote part of the Northwest could alter the way the government enforces environmental regulations across the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court this winter will hear a case brought against the EPA by Mike and Chantell Sackett of north Idaho.