October 13, 2011 HR 2273 authorizes design of new or expanded coal ash ponds based on groundwater arsenic concentrations five times higher than Safe Drinking Water Act limits. Design requirements…
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October 5, 2011 EIP’s Petition asks EPA to object to Luminant’s (formerly TXU) air pollution permit for the new coal-fired Sandow No. 5 power plant. The new coal-fired plant, located…
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September 16, 2011 EIP’s formal comments, filed on behalf of Houston Ship Channel area residents, details major flaws in BP’s application for an air pollution permit for the company’s Texas…
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September 13, 2011 Wall Street Journal article based on EIP analysis shows that coal interests paid $1.5 million in political contributions to House Speaker John Boehner in the first half…
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September 8, 2011 Today Eric Schaeffer, Executive Director of the Environmental Integrity Project, testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. He shared his views on the…
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September 7, 2011 While Republican Presidential Candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr. promised to “dramatically rein in the EPA” in a September 1 speech, recent data shows that toxic emissions from…
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August 31, 2011 This August the U.S. EPA sent letters to Tennessee, telling the state it must do better before issuing proposed Clean Water Act permits for TVA’s Kingston…
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August 18, 2011 EIP and citizens groups put EPA on notice today that the agency’s four-year delay responding to a 2007 petition constitutes unreasonable delay, a violation of federal…
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August 17, 2011 In a new report released today titled "Illinois at Risk: Lax Safeguards and No Enforcement Endanger the Water, Air & Lives of Residents Near State’s Numerous…
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August 4, 2011 U.S. EPA’s proposed new rule will greatly reduce the amount of toxic air pollution from coal fired power plants, and the rule will have both health and…
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