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What to do about the growing bedbug problem
Every other day, it seems, there's another report on TV about the rising epidemic of bedbugs.
Tags: bedbugs , WTOP Talkback , Environmental Protection Agency , Nathan Hager
Federal agencies to review Fort Detrick cancer data
A group seeking to link Fort Detrick to hundreds of cases of cancer in Frederick met with federal government officials Friday morning to turn over its privately collected data
Tags: Fort Detrick , cancer , John Bee ,
Feds fail to fork over millions in fees
The federal government, which owns nearly 20 percent of D.C., refuses to pay a new fee to clean up stormwater runoff, one that came about in response to unfunded EPA mandates.
Tags: WASA , Mark Segraves , Environmental Protection Agency , Water and Sewer Authority , National Association of Clean Water Agencies , Nathan Gardner-Andrews , Impervious Area Charge , Treasury Department , water bills , George Hawkins , Susan Poling , stormwater discharge , stormwater runoff , Potomac River , Anacostia River , Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay problems still persist
Activism about cleaning up the environment since the first Earth Day has diminished, says one noted bay expert.
Tags: Chesapeake Bay , Chesapeake Bay Foundation , Chesapeake Bay Program , Clean Water Act , Kent Mountford , Earth Day , Environmental Protection Agency , Tom Horton , Pollution , population growth , urbanization , development
Hiding Problems at Federal Agencies
The federal government has developed a disturbing practice of cleverly hiding information.
Tags: Lurita Doan , Barack Obama , CBP , San Ysidro Port of entry , Jayson Ahern , GSA , Defense , DoD , contracting , SIGAR , Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstr , Susan Collins , Claire McCaskill , Tom Coburn , Education , Dick Durbin , NTEU , Energy , Commerce , Carol Browner , OPM , TSA , SBA , stimulus , small business , State , Treasury , Freddie Mac , Fannie Mae
Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson
Tags: Barack Obama , TARP , bailout , Lisa Jackson , You Tube Video , cap and trade , Waxman-Markey
The carbon free options
There is a lot of talk about clean energy, but what are the facts? Many people don't realize nuclear energy accounts for nearly three-quarters of all U.S. electricity production that doesn't emit greenhouse gases. To meet the 2050 climate change goals in legislation approved recently by the House of Representatives, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates the need for 180 new nuclear power plants.
Tags: technology , The Clean Energy Report , nuclear energy
Environmental Protection Agency
A government union is making its case to Congress to re-establish Environmental Protection Agency research libraries. An EPA Local of AFGE hosted a recent breakfast to discuss the closures resulting from Bush Administration budget cuts. In the closing process, hundreds of paper files were lost or thrown out. When the Government Accountability Office investigated, they recommended a moratorium on future closures until the all files could be digitized. EPA CIO at the time Molly O'Neil said she didn't know what was lost because the EPA hadn't done an inventory.
Tags: technology , Power of Information , AFGE , GAO\Molly O'Neil
Jeff Zients and Lisa Jackson
Tags: OMB , Jeff Zients , Lisa Jackson , Carbon dioxide emissions
