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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Carpet Beetles: Are They The Next Bed Bugs?

    Invasion? The Voice recently wrote about bugs' inevitable(?) triumph over humankind. And though it doesn't look like bed bugs are necessarily going to be the creepy, crawly culprits who enslave us, we have recently learned about another species that comes out while you are asleep and defenseless: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Dangerous Dioxins: NYC Green Groups Call for Stronger Enforcement

    A little more than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency released its long-awaited report on the non-cancer dangers of dioxins, consumer groups have called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to officially stop buying products which contain these chemicals. New York's Center fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Hydrofracking Can Be Banned in Dryden, NY

    ​A court decided yesterday that the upstate town of Dryden -- located in Tompkins county -- can bar hydrofracking -- marking a major win for fracking opponents. The New York Times reports that Dryden's battle began in August, when the town's board passed a zoning law that bans gas drilling w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Department of Environmental Protection Clarifies Fracking E-Mail (UPDATE)

    Mayor Mike Bloomberg has had his share of public reservations about hydrofracking, urging government honchos to keep drilling far from NYC's water. The City's environmental agency is on board, too. But a strange little newsletter released this afternoon from the Department of Environmental Protect ... More >>

  • News

    September 14, 2011

    Michele Bachmann's Bright Idea

    From the toxic right, a surprisingly healthy notion?

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2011

    Get Ready for Water Pipe Infrastructure-Mageddon

    ​Summer is great, isn't it? When the mercury rises, nothing beats pouring a cool glass of H20, watching the sprinklers overwater your lawn, or just taking a 3-hour shower. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior, combined with the heat itself, is doing a number on our nation's water piping. CNN r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Credit Title IX, and Richard Nixon, for a U.S. Women's World Cup Win

    ​Like a cool shower giving respite from a heat wave, the U.S. women's soccer team rolls on, distracting us from ugly political and economic news and -- for at least a few moments -- bridging the country together. Today's 3-1 victory over France's Violent Femmes secures the U.S. team's positi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Organic Food Is Often Grown With Organic Pesticides

    Muffet/FlickrBummer.​Well, here's a bit of news guaranteed to make shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op a little less smug: turns out that even organic produce can contain commercial pesticides.

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2011

    Government Narrowly Avoids Shutdown

    via Good Men Project​The government was this close to shutting down last night but managed to reach an eleventh-hour (literally) compromise before the midnight deadline. House Speaker John "Smarmy" Boehner presented the laundry list of spending cuts and revisions and got Congress' positive respons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2011

    Berkeley Residents Panicking Over Almost Non-Existent Radiation

    ​The Daily has an article (not that I can read the whole thing in my iPad-less state!) about irritating Berkeley, Calif. residents being irrationally afraid of radiation from the nuclear crisis in Japan. They are flocking to the area's health food vitamin apothecary-places to buy potassium iodide, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Peter Vallone, Fluoride-Hating Councilman, Wants Your Teeth to Rot

    ​A city councilman from Queens apparently wants your your teeth to rot and fall out. The Daily News says Councilman Peter Vallone is planning to introduce a bill that would end New York's 45-year practice of adding fluoride to its tap water, citing safety concerns and comparing the miner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Bedbug Registry Creator Talks Infestations, Prevention, and the Worst Reported Cases in New York City

    ​By all accounts, the bedbug front keeps getting scarier. See "Sick Fucks Now Promoting Bedbug-Infestation as a Revenge Tactic." But what, really, is the state of the bedbug? Is all this talk just a bunch of fear-mongering? Or is the city's battle over bedbugs just beginning? We caught up with ... More >>

  • Film

    September 15, 2010

    The Case Against Fracking in Gasland

    ​By all accounts, the bedbug front keeps getting scarier. See "Sick Fucks Now Promoting Bedbug-Infestation as a Revenge Tactic." But what, really, is the state of the bedbug? Is all this talk just a bunch of fear-mongering? Or is the city's battle over bedbugs just beginning? We caught up with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Scott Stringer, Working Families Circulate Petition Opposing Drilling That Could Poison New York's Drinking Water

    More refreshing without the natural gas drilling.​While oil drilling has made a sorry wreck of the Gulf coast, another kind of drilling could threaten New York's water supply.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Pat LaFrieda Meatpacking Space to Become an Art Gallery; Whole Foods to Stop Stocking Raw Milk

    ​Wtih 12 new cases of illness in the Midwest linked to unpasteurized milk, the raw milk debate is heating up, leading Whole Foods to pull raw milk from its shelves. [Wall Street Journal] Environmental activists have been attacking Nestlé over YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for its purchases ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

    ​The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at which it encourages conversations that "follow the conventions of polite discourse." As you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Studies in Crap: The Itchy, Whiskery Horror of Macrame

    Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Creating With Macrame Author: Suzanne Stiles Date: 1971 Publisher: American ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2009

    City challenges state over upstate oil drilling

    Despite preliminary guidelines released by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which declined to ban natural gas drilling inside the New York City watershed, Acting New York City DEC Chair Steven Lawitts says that drilling for natural gas upstate could pollute water for 15 million pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Vets Get In On Food Cart Wars; Mercury Poisoning Spreading

    ​A veteran with a food cart in front of the Met, who doesn't pay for his permit in accordance with a law that allows veterans special access to steet vending, has led to other vets setting up shop in the coveted spot. [NY Times] Every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country was f ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2009

    Letters: August 4, 2009

    ​A veteran with a food cart in front of the Met, who doesn't pay for his permit in accordance with a law that allows veterans special access to steet vending, has led to other vets setting up shop in the coveted spot. [NY Times] Every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country was f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Subway Cars Donated for Artificial Reefs are Disintegrating, Program Suspended

    Remember when former mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner wanted subway cars dumped in the Hudson to create an environmentally groovy artificial reef? And how, when New York couldn't get it together, we started shipping the cars to Delaware, where they were dumped instead? We have some bad news for Del ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    25-Year-Old Hudson River Cleanup Plan Starts Today

    Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Today's Fun Map: Top Brooklyn Polluters!

    Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Feeding the Beast: Midday Link Dump

    Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    With Rising Food Costs, Councilman Seeks Ethanol Waiver for NY

    Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007

    Living in a Bedbug State of Mind at a Midtown Hotel

    Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

  • News

    July 31, 2007

    Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

    On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record

  • Film

    July 17, 2007

    It Doesn’t Suck!

    Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

  • NYC Life

    April 17, 2007

    Dishonorable Non-Mention: Juan Gonzalez and the Daily News' 9/11 Pulitzer

    Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

  • News

    September 5, 2006

    Some Kids Left Behind

    Stuyvesant alums finally join the fight for 9-11 health benefits

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2006

    A Leaky Tank Near You?

    Stuyvesant alums finally join the fight for 9-11 health benefits

  • Columns

    October 5, 2004

    Horoscope

    Stuyvesant alums finally join the fight for 9-11 health benefits

  • Theater

    September 9, 2003

    It Takes A Villager

    But Can a Solo Show With a Botanical Punchline and a Rare Muskrat Be an Action Movie?

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Rehnquist's Daughter Got Badge and Gun

    Justice Is Served

  • News

    February 18, 2003

    Nation

    Justice Is Served

  • News

    June 11, 2002

    Nation

    Justice Is Served

  • News

    May 28, 2002

    Deep Time, Short Sight

    Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever

  • News

    February 19, 2002

    War Riddles

    Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer

  • News

    September 25, 2001

    The Dust May Never Settle

    How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

  • News

    April 10, 2001

    Prez Wakes Up in Wonderful World

    Friends and Foes Hail Bush, the Conquering Hero

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Bush to Cabinet: Yessir!

    Big Oil Insiders Pull Prez Off Own Platform

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    Libertarian Belle

    Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Nation

    Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

  • News

    October 31, 2000

    Nader Accuses Gore of Deceit on Environmental Record

    'For Eight Years, Gore Has Flat-Out Lied'

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    The Chemical Congressman

    Towns Raids House for His Pesticide Backers

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Trading Gas

    Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

  • News

    September 21, 1999

    Unnatural Disasters

    How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

  • News

    September 14, 1999

    Timor Ease

    Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

  • News

    July 27, 1999

    Tooth To Tell

    Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

  • News

    June 1, 1999

    Nation

    Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

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