All Posts Tagged With: "EPA"

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Are you one of George W. Bush’s Canaries in the Coal Mine?

I felt the hair go up on the back of my neck reading one of my earlier April posts called Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction.
The gist of the article is that, instead of reducing the EPA mandated acceptable smog levels from the what was then 80 ppm to [...]

2Jul2008 | Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
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How Politics Can Mess Up a Perfectly Good Environment

Here’s just one example. If you breath air, you might want to take a look.
The Bush administration and EPA have developed a reputation for interfering with resultant policy based on scientific research.
The latest-
March 11th, 2008 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proudly announces that it has reduced ground level ozone ( smog [...]

17May2008 | Lisa | 5 comments | Continued
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Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction

I hate to wish the summer away, but the November presidential elections can’t come fast enough for me.
The recent lowering of the smog standard sounded good initially (see my recent article.) The EPA lowered ground level ozone (smog) standards from 80 ppb to 75 ppb. 4000 lives per year would be saved, [...]

11Apr2008 | Lisa | 4 comments | Continued
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New USEPA Smog Regulation Could Lower Your Health Bills, and Even Save Your Life

If you’re one of the growing population of asthma sufferers, you’ll be glad to hear that the US EPA has announced it will lower the ground level ozone- aka smog- standards from 80 parts per billion (ppb) to 75 parts per billion.
The move could save 4000 lives per year, and 19 billion dollars in health [...]

13Mar2008 | Lisa | 5 comments | Continued
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Trash Man or Trash, Man?

I have been thinking about trash.
No, not that kind of trash. That’s trailer trash.

This kind of trash:

Now, before you go clicking off into the blogosphere, hear me out.

I have been thinking about trash for two reasons:
1) because my town now has mandatory recycling. That means I could, theoretically be fined for not recycling.
This does [...]

8Feb2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued