EPA E-mail Ignored By Bush Admin is Released
On Tuesday the Obama administration released the EPA e-mail and document on greenhouse gases that the Bush administration chose to ignore in December 2007.
New EPA Rule Will Cut Medical Waste Pollution
New rule will cut down on mercury emissions and remove loophole for start-up and shut-down of incinerators.
First Ocean Acidification Suit Filed Against EPA
Center for Biological Diversity wants the EPA to list Ocean waters as impaired under the Clean Water Act.
Court Blocks Permitting Process for Mountaintop Removal Mining
A federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers streamlined permit process is flawed.
Federal Network for Sustainability
The Federal Network for Sustainability (FNS) is a new initiative to help agencies across the federal government implement sustainable practices. It functions as a trade group and consists of representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), National Park Service, U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, Bonneville Power Administration, and NASA. There have been a number of attempts to direct the single largest purchaser of products and services in the world – the U.S. federal government – toward environmental purchasing. The Environmental Preferable Purchasing program launched in 1993 and President Clinton’s 1998 “Greening of Government” Executive Orders have met with only modest success. Recently, the EPA conducted a study to find out why. They found that surprisingly, federal employees do not perceive the programs as mandates because they were issued government-wide, rather than by top management in their own agencies. Also, few employees understand the “environmentally preferable purchasing” or how to do it. FNS hopes to rectify these problems. FNS has four initiatives slated for 2001-2002: 1. Electronic Products Stewardship: FNS is supporting EPA’s efforts to develop and promote electronic product stewardship initiatives. 2. Green power: promote the use […]
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