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- Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business
- Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...
- Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- EPA scientists face political pressure
- EPA scientists face political pressureNothing different from the pastI'm pretty sure a few idiots will begin their usual "Bush-bashing" rant about this nothing-new article.But the fact is that this is NOTHING DIFFERENT from any other time. The EPA is politically controlled agency that is easy manipulated by special interests. ...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nothing
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- EPA scientists face political pressure
- The Union of Concerned Scientists has documented widespread political interference at the Environmental Protection Agency. The group conducted a broad investigation that combined interviews, analysis of documents and 1,600 responses to a survey. The results of these investigations show an agency under siege from...
- Tags: Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Marketing Research, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Air wars and the future of green tech firms
- Right now American regs for air pollution and greenhouse gases are in suspension. You could say they're up in the air. At the center of this air war: the Environmental Protection folks EPA. The EPA got hit with one new lawsuit this week, and the threat...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Green tech cars will not get any federal help until November
- All those companies working on fuel cell cars, electric cars, plug-in cars and the long-awaited, not expected solar-powered cars...well, they'll not get any federal encouragement until after the November election. The latest chapter in the bizarre, Kafkaesque battle over national auto emission standards in the U.S. has...
- Tags: Car, Green Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- EPA and Gaia Man may agree on one thing: forget about global warming
- EPA and Gaia Man may agree on one thing: forget about global warmingAnyone talking GW in 20 years is no scientistIf this supposed "scientist" has come to the conclusion that Global Warming will wreck the planet in less than 20 years, he clearly does not have much grasp of the...
- Tags: global warming, Gaia Man, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- EPA and Gaia Man may agree on one thing: forget about global warming
- The Environmental Protection Agency was ordered one year ago by the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling on whether greenhouse gas emissions are dangerous to public health and welfare. That was a year ago. So twelve months later the E.P.,A. has finally decided to act by not...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Lovelock, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Headaches in Armonk but will green lose out?
- No doubt the IBM top team will be passing around the Tylenol today in Armonk as they figure out what to do next after their temporary exclusion from further contracting with the US Federal government. Sadly it is not an April fool's joke - the US Attorney's office for the Eastern...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, IBM Corp., FCW, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Management, Government, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- EPA to data center operators: We want your energy stats
- Ok, here's the skinny. As I mentioned last week, the Environmental Protection Agency -- the folks who brought you the original Energy Star program for client IT gear like desktops and monitors -- have launched in earnest their project to get a better grip on the power consumption associated with...
- Tags: Data Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Coal Wars: Navajo Nation sues the feds, Kansas to konk old King Koal?
- The Navajo Nation and a private power company in Texas are suing the E.P.A. Not because they've been turned down, they simply can't get an answer. The Navajo's utility company and Texas-based Sithe Global Power applied for a permit back in 2004. They want to build a...
- Tags: Kansas, Coal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- How Tough is Ozone Crackdown by Feds
- The E.P.A. actually says it is tightening rules against ozone, and that many urban counties in the United States now frequently have air that is unhealthy to breathe. Specifically 345 counties in California, the Northeast and scattered across urban parts of the U.S. will now have tighter anti-ozone regulations....
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ozone, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Americans discard 125 mln phones annually
- 10.2% of users threw away their old handsets, or had them stolen or lost in Q4 2007. The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA estimates Americans discard 125 mln phones each year, creating 65,000 tons of waste. 8% of US consumers who bought new phones in the fourth quarter are keeping...
- Tags: Phone, Handset, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Telecom & Utilities, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Fuming over fumes: E.P.A. is 0 for 3 with a loss in the blogosphere
- The Environmental Protection Agency Orwellian doublespeak in its current incarnation seems to be having its own lame duck problems during the final months of the current American regime. The latest two attacks come from the non-executive parts of the federal government itself. A federal appeals court...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blogosphere, Blogging, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- "Follow the Money"
- When he uttered those three words in "All the President's Men," the Deep Throat character was aptly describing the workings of American government, past and present. Today we follow the money with a quick look at the latest budget proposals from the lame duck White Housers. More for...
- Tags: SLATE, Budget, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Government, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Nanotechnology, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Radon is back because it never went away
- Radon is back because it never went awayPreventive measures and mitigationIt's fairly inexpensive for someone to have a venting system installed in a house as it's being built. This is highly recommended if the house has a basement and is in a radon-prone area. Aftermarket options are available, but are...
- Tags: Radon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, radiation
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Let the lawsuits ensue
- It ain't over 'til. it's over to paraphrase that great sports philosopher Yogi Berra. And the battle is now joined between states wanting tighter auto emissions controls and the current White House which wants tighter political controls. The most populous state with the most cars on the road,...
- Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- E.P.A. the Environmental Pollution Agency?
- The E.P.A. will refuse to let California and other states set stricter anti-pollution limits on cars. This is all for the sake of a clear national policy according to the head of the EPA, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Standards, State, Bush, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- EPA, CO2, coal and mercury
- The E.P.A. is embroiled in several crucial green tech issues right now. The newest alarm has been sounded by forces wanting the Environmental Procrastination Agency to do something about CO2 emissions from airplanes. Who are they kidding? Do something? It's a serious-enough issue, and...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A., Airline Industry, Mercury, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Running a recycling drive? Be careful
- My Computer Club at the high school is planning to run an electronics recycling drive after the holidays. Ideally, we'd take in a fair number of decent PCs and peripherals replaced during the season of giving that we could refurbish and redistribute to our elementary schools. We would...
- Tags: Recycling, Electronics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- EPA to drivers: Don't be idle
- It is finally getting colder here in Jersey-land, which means that the folks down the street who own a diesel truck will be letting it idle more in the mornings before they buzz off to work. Aside from being terribly annoying, especially in the predawn...
- Tags: Cold Calling, Battery, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
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