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April 22, 2011

Scaled back environmental regulations put blacks in peril

OPINON - Three of every five individuals of African-American or Latino background live in communities with 1 or more toxic…
December 24, 2010

EPA moves unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases

WASHINGTON (AP) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said the aim was to better cope with pollution contributing to…
November 19, 2010

EPA administrator: Health of Gulf Coast is vital to US environment

OPINION - The best restoration plans will come from the Gulf to Washington, not from Washington to the Gulf...
June 1, 2010

Obama on oil spill: ‘People will be prosecuted’

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama gave the oil spill commission marching orders to thoroughly examine the disaster and ensure that…
May 21, 2010

Obama orders new fuel standards for the future

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama directed the government Friday to set the first-ever mileage and pollution limits for big trucks…
April 22, 2010

Why the environment is a civil rights issue

OPINION - Forty years after the first Earth Day, we've come a long way. But there is still work to…
February 1, 2010

TheGrio’s 100: Lisa Jackson, Washington’s lead environmentalist

TheGrio's 100 - Jackson's leadership comes at a pivotal time for the EPA in the nation's policymaking...
October 13, 2009

Alabama county takes on tons of toxic waste (coal ash)

From the Birmingham Weekly> Into a place where the Cahaba, one of America’s last free-running wild rivers, flows, Perry County