pollution

EPA zaps BP on air pollution

October 21, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency has taken on oil giant BP along with corporate-friendly Republican officials in the state of Indiana.

EPA to probe weed-killer’s links to cancer, birth defects

October 13, 2009 By Susan Webb

In another break with Bush administration policies, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will investigate the health effects of one of the nation's most widely used weed-killers, atrazine.

EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant

September 2, 2009 By Susan Webb

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...