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Why Your Lead-Free Faucet May Contain Up to 1/4 lb. of Lead
Congress considers bill to get lead out of lead-free faucets.
Surfers against Sewage find dirty secret at Britain’s ‘cleanest’ beaches
Anti-pollution group says one-quarter of UK’s Blue Flag bleaches fail to monitor daily sewage contamination
BP oil spill: Obama administration’s scientists admit alarm over chemicals
Environmental Protection Agency experts expressed concerns to superiors about use of dispersants, says whistleblower group
A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine
Agriculture officials have quarantined 28 beef cattle on a Pennsylvania farm after wastewater from a nearby gas well leaked into a field and came in contact with the animals.
Oil Spill Live Feed: Where Is It?
For almost a month, BP monitored oil and natural gas gushing from the broken riser and blow-out preventer with remote operated vehicles. And for almost a month, they kept all of that video to entirely to themselves. And now that video is available to watch live… sort of.
Feds Defend Unprecedented Use of Subsea Dispersants
Ecopolitology asks Rear Admiral Mary Landry, Federal On-Scene Coordinator for Unified Area Command, Deepwater Horizon Response about the unprecedented use of subsea dispersants and what the ongoing testing and monitoring protocol looks like.
EPA Adds 10 Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites.
America’s Most Important Environmental Law Turns 40
As the National Environmental Policy Act turns 40, the Obama administration is considering expanding the scope of the landmark act to include climate change.
NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon Partners with EPA to Work for Cleaner Air
What’s the first name that comes to mind when you think of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? Current EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, embattled Bush-era EPA chief Stephen Johnson, or the first EPA administrator, William Ruckelshaus? No? How about NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon?
Fracking Fluid Spill in Pennsylvania Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish
Pennsylvania environment officials are racing to clean up as much as 8,000 gallons of dangerous drilling fluids after a series of spills at a natural gas production site near the town of Dimock last week.
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