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Daniel Fox, CEO of Rushford Hypersonic in Minnesota, displays drill bits coated with nano particles that give them incredible strength. Minn. -- Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a startup with headquarters in southeastern Minnesota,...
Tags: EPA, University of Minnesota, Rushford Hypersonic, Rushford CEO Daniel Fox, embracing nanotechnologies, Medtronic Inc., Fred Miller, nano material, Minneapolis, Medtronic, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Asbestos, Nanotech, Implications of nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Rushford
Environmental Protection Agency is accepting grant applications for a total of $3.4 million in funding for environmental education projects and programs. The EPA expects to award approximately 100 grants ranging from $5,000 to $200,000, and will accept...
Tags: EPA, accepting grant, grant applications, Novato, Environmental education, Water supply and sanitation in the United States, Alternative education, Outdoor education, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Education, Environment
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) expressed concerns last month when the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urged the EPA to use test data compiled by private chemical companies when judging whether pesticides and other household products could...
Tags: Ed Markey, EPA, OMB, Peter Orszag, White House, public health, Washington, Endocrine disruptor, Ed Markey, Scientific Integrity in Policymaking, Politics, Peter R. Orszag, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget
Three threatened and endangered species of fish have been found for the first time in Walnut Creek, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says. The presence of the fish, called darters, indicate that pollution has dropped dramatically in the 58-mile...
Tags: EPA, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, endangered species, Mike Gallaway, Walnut Creek, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Darter, Pickaway County Ohio, Columbus Ohio, Olentangy River, Percidae, Columbus Ohio metropolitan area, Delaware County Ohio, Environment
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset...
Tags: Nevada, Earle Dixon, BP America, Yerington Paiute Tribe, EPA, Anaconda Copper Co., Yerington, Uranium, Anaconda Copper, Mining, Uranium mining, Environment, Actinides, Fuels, Teratogens
And, in order to publicize their attempt to block the legislation, they enlisted the help of the most trusted name in journalism and the man who has dined with Princes, Kings and Presidents, world traveler, and Head of the Environmental News Desk of Stoos...
Tags: Senate Health Care Bill, Congress, Mr. Gore, Al Gore, United States District Court, care bills, skin cancer, polar bears, Obama Care, EPA, Portland, Barack Obama, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Google, Environment
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson. The West Virginia Republican met with Jackson Thursday to discuss delays in the mine permitting process in Appalachia.
Tags: EPA, Lisa Jackson, mining permitting, capito says, Shelley Moore Capito, Charleston, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Federal regulators told state and local officials Thursday they will be held liable for meeting new water quality standards necessary to clean up the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay. “The Susquehanna is the lifeblood of the Chesapeake,” said Richard...
Tags: million pounds, EPA, Chesapeake Bay, Robert Koroncai, Richard Batiuk, Cory Miller, watershed cleanup, State College, Susquehanna River, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Total maximum daily load, Surface runoff, Water pollution, Clean Water Act, Stormwater, Environment
Enter your Zip code to find news and events in your area Font Resize Special To The Salt Lake Tribune Denver » The longstanding battle between government regulators and US Magnesium over toxic chemicals released from the company's plant in Tooele County...
Tags: Great Salt Lake, EPA, Salt Lake City, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Pollution in the United States, Magnesium, Hazardous waste, Environment, Law Crime
Simplot, produced three pesticides in 2008 but inactivated its registration in 2002 and did not register until 2009, according to an EPA order. Facilities must be actively registered with EPA to produce pesticides. An additional facility in Moorhead,...
Tags: EPA, pesticide facilities, Australia, Grafton, Pesticides, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Soil contamination, Agriculture in Idaho, Simplot, Disaster Accident, Law Crime