Results for keyword: Environmental Protection Agency
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The politics of public health
Environmental regulations are a favorite target in the runup to this year's election.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Sep 18, 2012 -
Safari Club and the NRA aim to gut wilderness
The so-called "Sportsmen’s Heritage Act" is just another attempt to destroy the Wilderness Act and the land and wildlife it protects.
by Talasi Brooks and Kevin Proescholdt, Jun 20, 2012 -
Water-quality standards unfairly burden rural communities
The plight of a small water and sewer association in rural Mora, N.M -- caught in a tangle of federal and state clean water rules it can’t afford to meet -- echoes experienced by other rural communities around the West.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Dec 20, 2011 -
Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for the First Time
The Environmental Protection Agency finds a connection between fracking and water pollution
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica, Dec 09, 2011 -
Thanks to Obama, cattlemen lose out
Proposed rule changes that would have made it easier for small-scale ranchers to compete with giant meatpacking corporations just went down in flames.
by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Nov 21, 2011 -
Clean air regulations protect park views by targeting coal plants
The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to reduce haze from air pollution near national parks and wilderness; some coal-fired power plants are cleaning up their act and others will shut down.
by Cally Carswell, Nov 13, 2011 -
Real hunters get the lead out
Lead bullets are harmful to hunters as well as to the environment.
by Paul W. Hansen, Jan 13, 2011 -
Oklahoma vs. the West
Oklahoma Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe have a way of riding roughshod over the West's environmental politics.
by Denver Nicks and Ray Ring, Nov 07, 2010 -
The life and death of Desert Rock
The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.
by Laura Paskus, Aug 13, 2010 -
Our dirty past, our dirty present
Soon after the EPA was founded 40 years ago, it began photographing American environmental problems for its Documerica Project.
by Staff, Apr 12, 2010






