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No Signs of Water Pollution from Arkansas Fracking, Feds Report
Bonner R. Cohen... poses a risk to groundwater. “When environmental activists talk about hydraulic fracturing, they... to have a clean bill of environmental health, as the USGS’s recent... a related development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in January that it... of fracking in the region... ...
IEA: U.S. Has Resources to Become World’s Largest Oil Producer
Bonner R. Cohen... decades, the Paris-based International Energy Agency predicts the United States will become... steps in at the behest of environmental activists. U.S. to Surpass Saudi... is the possibility the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will seize regulatory control over... Fracking is currently regulated... ...
Minnesotans Looking for New Leader to Fight EPA Regional Haze Application
Bonner R. Cohen... restore balance between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental protection agencies. Minnesotans now must look for a... new leader to stand up for state environmental protection agencies, as former Congressman Rick Nolan rode... taconite plants in... ...
West Virginia Workers Laid Off as EPA Withholds Mining Permits
Bonner R. Cohen... it needs from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a surface mining project in... disrupt mountain streams and thus cause environmental harm. The delay in getting the... of both parties, who blame the agency for the lost opportunity to create... said Teresa Platt, director of the Environment... ...
Governors Pressure EPA to Waive Ethanol Mandate
Bonner R. Cohen... seven governors petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to waive its ethanol fuel mandate... flooding, harmed the economy or the environment and the damage is not restricted to just one industry. “The ethanol mandate is one of the worst policies the federal government has placed on the... ...
Ohio Parts Company with National Association of Clean Air Agencies
Bonner R. Cohen... the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a group of state and local... air pollution control officials that routinely champions environmental activist claims and controversial U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restrictions. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott... ...
Asian Pollution Pushing States over EPA Ozone Limits
Bonner R. Cohen... western states that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is unfairly imposing costly restrictions and penalties on them for pollution that is out of their control. EPA has proposed further restrictions on ozone levels, even though western states do not have the ability to block Asian pollution from raising... ...
New Study Warns Against ‘Reforming’ Toxic Substances Act
Bonner R. Cohen... regulate chemicals not covered by other environmental statutes. TSCA also differs from other environmental laws in setting a risk-based standard for allowing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate chemicals. TSCA “also demands that the agency consider both cost-benefit... ...
Draft EPA Fracking Report Comes Under Fire
Bonner R. CohenThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fending off criticism after issuing... Non-EPA analysts have criticized the agency for exercising poor quality control of... into a local aquifer, and the agency reports it suspects fracking is the... review process.” “We ask that the agency fully address... ...
Activists Move to Prevent Canada from Supplying U.S. with Oil
Bonner R. Cohen... oil from a friendly nation, but environmental activists are urging the Obama administration... of completing a 1,000-page environmental impact assessment. The State Department is... 90-day comment period for federal agencies. In its first two reviews of the environmental issues involved, the State Department... ...
Floridians Fight Back Against EPA Water Nutrient Restrictions
Bonner R. Cohen... the bull’s eye of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory artillery. Costs in Dispute... per Florida household per year. The agency’s cost estimates, however, are hotly... the Florida Wildlife Federation, and other environmental groups sought to supersede efforts by the Florida Department of... ...
German Drivers Say “Nein” to Ethanol
Bonner R. Cohen... the German driving public to presumed environmental virtues of ethanol has resulted in what Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has called a... E10 can ruin cars and the environment.” Like the United States, the EU... on the highway for government-mandated environmental correctness. Similar U.S. Concerns... ...
American Farm Bureau Sues EPA over Chesapeake Bay
Bonner R. Cohen... Federation is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying the agency’s proposed plan to limit runoff... region’s agricultural sector, which the agency says will have to undergo a... sediment pollution in the watershed,” the agency claims, “accounting for approximately 38 percent... ...
House Prepares to Fight EPA Overreach
Bonner R. Cohen... manmade greenhouse-gas emissions endanger the environment and thus should be regulated under... from regulating agricultural dust; blocking the agency from enforcing new water-quality standards... on coal ash; and stopping the agency from imposing new regulations on particulate... taxpayer subsidies, federal mandates... ...
House Lawmakers Oppose Premature Fracking Rules
Bonner R. Cohen... rules on the procedure until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its analysis of... to conduct a study on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known... safe, less resource-intensive for the environment than traditional methods, and properly managed... solar... ...
House Lawmakers Oppose Premature Fracking Rules
Bonner R. Cohen... rules on the procedure until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its analysis of... to conduct a study on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known... safe, less resource-intensive for the environment than traditional methods, and properly managed... solar... ...
Activists Target Important Agricultural Fertilizer
Bonner R. CohenEnvironmental activist groups are seeking to block... the nation s phosphate is produced. Environmental Impact Debated The Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups argue plans by Mosaic... 14 different federal, state, and local agencies since 2003. Key to Florida Economy... mining is curtailed. The... ...
Idaho Citizens Criticize EPA Superfund Process
Bonner R. Cohen... a plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prolong the cleanup of... audience of some 200 citizens the agency s proposal was the best way... lead oxide, from escaping into the environment. Bunker Hill s owners at the... Nobody seriously doubts the area underwent environmental... ...
West Virginia, EPA Clash over Mountaintop Removal Mining
Bonner R. CohenEnvironmental officials in West Virginia and the... locking horns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the Obama administration’s... at West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued new water quality guidelines... NMA has sued EPA over the agency’s... ...
Reid Tables Cap-and-Tax Legislation
Bonner R. Cohen... of 2010 compared with last year. Environmental activists express hope the Senate will... not appear to have reached the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), however. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on July 29 her agency was rejecting 10 petitions asking the agency to reconsider... ...