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Study: Most States Cut Emissions in Last Decade
Stateline - EIA Study says 32 States Cut Emissions Between 2000 and 2010 more
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EPA: Most of Nation’s Waters are “Poor”
More than half of the nation’s thousands of miles of rivers and streams are plagued by substandard water quality, including harmful levels of nutrient pollution and mercury, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. more
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Nullification: Old Arguments Against Feds Get New Life
States challenging Washington is not new, but Second Amendment worries have breathed new life into a movement championing a wider range of topics than ever before. more
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Forced Cuts Would Take Toll on State Air and Water Programs
Should Congress fail to reach a budget deal by Friday, the country’s air and water could get murkier, environmental officials are warning, as forced cuts would deal a heavy blow to state programs that carry out the bulk of inspections and pollution cleanups. more
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Northeastern States To Drastically Cut Emissions Cap
Nine Northeastern states will drastically cut the region’s carbon cap under proposed changes to the region’s cap-and- trade program, they announced Thursday. more
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Downwind Delaware Seeks Relief From Cross-State Pollution
Delaware’s top air regulator has challenged federal officials to find a way to limit harmful pollution blowing across state lines.
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In the West, GOP Governors, Skeptical of Cap-and-Trade, Will Watch California
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-- Stateline asked several Republican governors about the role of climate change in energy policy in the West, asking them to weigh in on California’s new experiment with large-scale carbon trading.
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Ahead of Convention, Republican Governors Release Energy Plan
Ahead of the Republican National Convention scheduled for next week, Republican governors have released their broad energy plan. Not surprisingly, it finds fault with President Obama. more
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State Commissioners Ask EPA for Stricter Vehicle and Fuel Standards
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT BEAT: Several state environmental commissioners say that new federal vehicle and fuel standards would be a boon to public health. more
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States Struggle to Update Toxic Chemical Regulation
Unchanged for 35 years, the U.S. Toxic Chemicals Safety Act has left federal regulators without the tools to investigate many chemicals that could endanger human health. That burden has fallen to states, which have enacted a patchwork of regulations that environmentalists, policymakers and industry leaders all consider inadequate. more
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Hazardous Chemical Crackdown Gains Momentum in States
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT BEAT: In the absence of up-to-date federal legislation, states are writing their own rules about which chemicals are safe when contained in common products.more -
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States Weigh Bans on Plastic Grocery Bags
As California debates enacting the first statewide plastic bag ban, an environmental issue that started in city halls is taking a turn toward the statehouse. Grocers who opposed the movement against plastic bags now say they'd rather have one state law than a patchwork of local ordinances. more
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Gulf States Fear Long-Term Fiscal Effects of Oil Disaster
The Gulf Coast states were hopeful that 2010 would be a year of economic revival. Now, one of the worst environmental tragedies in U.S. history is jeopardizing the future of the tourism, fishing and deep-water oil drilling industries. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida do not have the money to offset the revenue losses and are counting on BP to rescue them.more -
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Spill Reignites Offshore Drilling Debate
TODAY'S TAKE: The oil spill caused by the explosion of a rig off the coast of Louisiana last week is reigniting a debate in the states over whether offshore drilling is environmentally safe. Florida Governor Charlie Crist toured the site of the spill on Tuesday (April 27) and called on lawmakers to hold off on plans to expand drilling in the coming years.more -
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East Coast Governors Split on Drilling
TODAY'S TAKE: President Obama's announcement Wednesday (March 31) that the federal government would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling, primarily off the East Coast, received a mixed reaction from governors of the affected states. Some saw it as long-overdue while others raised economic and environmental concerns. But the reactions did not break down along party lines.more -
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A sagebrush state shows its spirit
Idaho's governor this month has drummed up support for a statewide, citizen-led volunteer effort to rehabilitate vast areas of wildfire- scorched earth - double what has burned in California this week - by replanting the land with millions of seeds of a native shrub.more -
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States Ahead of EPA in Cutting Mercury Pollution
With the Bush administration under fire for pushing weak mercury pollution standards, several states are striking out to clean their own skies of toxic mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants and other sources. more
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States Push Pollution Rules, Power Line Authority
This was the year of the blackout, an almost unfathomable electrical failure that in minutes turned off the power from New York to Toronto to Cleveland on the afternoon of Aug. 14, stranding millions. It was also a year when states balked at White House efforts to rewrite the Clean Air Act in ways that some states fear will aggravate pollution and smog. Yet the states, while insisting that Washington keep enforcing environmental rules, also want the feds to keep hands off state power line decisions. more
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Don't Go Near the Water, Environmental Group Says
With all the hype about sharks in the water this summer, one would think death by man-eating fish would be the only thing to worry about when going near the ocean. Well, think again. In its 11th annual report on beach closings, the Natural Resources Defense Council noted that closings in 2000 due to disease-causing pollution had nearly doubled from the 1999 figure of 6,160 to 11,270. more
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Western Mines Drive Up Toxic Releases, EPA Says
Americans might have been exposed to a higher level of toxic chemicals and chemical compounds in 1999 than they were the year before, according to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. The nations industries generated 7.77 billion pounds of toxic chemicals and compounds in 1999, a 5.3 percent jump from 1998 due largely to increases in emissions and solid waste disposals from metal mining facilities in the West. more