Posts Tagged ‘ EPA ’

Virginia takes EPA to court claiming water regulation plan is illegal land takoever

Dec 14th, 2012 | By
Virginia takes EPA to court claiming water regulation plan is illegal land takoever

A heated legal battle between Virginia officials and the Environmental Protection Agency over what EPA critics describe as a land takeover gets its day in federal court Friday. The EPA, citing an abundance of stormwater runoff, has proposed a plan that Virginia officials say would cost them nearly half a billion dollars — and could
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EPA is pressured to drop ethanol mandate while drought drives corn prices up

Aug 17th, 2012 | By
EPA is pressured to drop ethanol mandate while drought drives corn prices up

Fox new Aug. 16, 2012 With record drought destroying crops across the country, corn prices are skyrocketing, and that is causing a world-wide ripple effect, including on the cost of the corn-derived gasoline additive ethanol. Corn prices are up 60 percent this summer, Christopher Hurt, a Purdue University economic professor, estimates. And now Democratic governors from Maryland,
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EPA using Drones to Spy on American Farmers

Jun 28th, 2012 | By
EPA using Drones to Spy on American Farmers

The U.S. Government’s Green Police Force, the one we told you about a couple months ago, is now actively spying on American farmers in what I believe is an attempt to regulate them out of business. News broke after Nebraskan law makers sent a letter to the EPA demanding that they stop using surveillance drones
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Department of Homeland Security Plans to Release Bacteria in Boston Subway System.

May 14th, 2012 | By
Department of Homeland Security Plans to Release Bacteria in Boston Subway System.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has announced a series of biological tests that they will be conducting in subway systems near Boston. DHS will be releasing bacteria into the MBTA tunnels, in what they say are tests to evaluate sensors installed in the tunnel system. The DHS sensors are designed to detect biological agents.
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EPA targets families that generate heat off the grid using traditional wood-burning stoves

Nov 18th, 2011 | By

he EPA is now expressing concern about the 80 percent-or-so of wood stove users that still rely on non-EPA approved models. Most of the wood stoves manufactured before 1990 do not contain the EPA’s certification stamp of approval which, in the eyes of the agency, means they are an unnecessary contributor of excess environmental pollution.