By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations. The new limits — which are presented as a ...

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By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage. The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco ...

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By MARK WILLIAMS AP Energy Writer An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It’s cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under ...

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By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials say they’ll use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration funds to step up the fight against invasive Asian carp. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

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By Sean Ryan The battle contractors are waging against Milwaukee’s preference for local bidders has sparked nationwide opposition to similar laws across the country. “This isn’t just in Milwaukee,” said Elaine Middleton, executive director of the Associated Utility Contractors of ...

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By Kevin Freking AP Writer Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled a new national strategy to enforce safe drinking water laws in small, rural communities and pledged to redouble efforts to protect children from toxic water in schools. ...

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By JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Writers COPENHAGEN (AP) — The United States for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both President Barack Obama’s administration and the U.S. Congress to reduce greenhouse emissions. ...

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By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to pollution, the economic downturn could have an upside. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday reported that toxic chemical pollution from the nation’s industrial plants, mines and factories ...

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By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent COPENHAGEN (AP) — This decade is very likely to be the warmest since record keeping began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday ...

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By DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. The announcement ...

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