A new report from the EPA looks at how Climate Change is affecting the United States. Since 1990 we live in a country that’s warmer, with more heat waves and hurricanes. Sea levels are rising and glaciers are melting.
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A new report from the EPA looks at how Climate Change is affecting the United States. Since 1990 we live in a country that’s warmer, with more heat waves and hurricanes. Sea levels are rising and glaciers are melting.
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So far, most of the questions about bisphenol-A have focused on its possible impacts on human heath – particularly unborn and very young children. But Tuesday’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency opens a whole new front. The agency says it will study BPA’s impact on the environment.
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After decades of leaching mercury into the streams and rivers of Lane County, the EPA has put the former Black Butte Mine on the Superfund clean up list. The mine is located about ten miles south of Cottage Grove. EPA has documents thousands of cubic yards of tailings and soil that’s been contaminated by...
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In a deal negotiated by the EPA, three major companies say they will stop using decaBDE, a flame retardant that is toxic to wildlife. Albemarle Corporation and Chemtura Corporation are the two largest U.S. manufacturers of decaBDE, ICL Industrial Products is our county’s largest importer. Under the deal, they will phase out most production,...
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When President Obama arrives at the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen later this month, he won’t be coming empty handed. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health, and will start regulating them as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says the agency will move...
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One of the hottest stories on the web today. The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health and need to be regulated. This could be a major shift in how the federal government deal with climate change. Rather than waiting for Congress to pass a law, the...
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Here’s an argument for catch-and-release. A new report by the Environmental Protection Agency is raising questions about the safety of fish caught in America’s lakes and reservoirs. The study looked at fish in 500 lakes across the country, including nine here in Oregon. What the agency found is that it’s just about impossible to...
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So far, so good. That’s the message from the Environmental Protection Agency this afternoon, about air quality at two schools in Oregon. Earlier this year the EPA started monitoring air quality at 63 schools around the country, including Harriet Tubman Middle School in Portland and Toledo Elementary in Toledo. The early results are “good...
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It’s the first step in what could be a long crackdown on pesticide use in the Pacific Northwest. The Environmental Protection Agency is placing new limits on the use of three organophosphate pesticides – chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion. The rules apply to Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. The EPA is trying to keep these...
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The death of Florence Kolbeck was so strange, that it captured headlines around the state. In July of 2005, Kolbeck and her husband Fred returned to their house after it had been sprayed for bugs by a pesticide company. Thinking they had waited enough time after the spraying, the Kolbecks were coughing and on...
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