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… Give your dishwasher a day off or promote it to an energy efficient appliance. Look for the EPA’s Energy Star rating when buying a new appliance. Day 11: Use local shops or farmers’ markets …

… benefits. Stronger air-pollution standards like the ones for industrial boilers that the EPA announced this month will prevent thousands of heart attacks and asthma cases. Stopping 150 …

… and most of President Obama's other legislative goals. It remains an implacable opponent of EPA environmental regulations — of greenhouse gases or just about anything else, arguing that …

… that threaten our health and safety: Food Safety and Inspection Services -- $53 million cut EPA State and local air quality management -- $25 million cut Clean Water State Revolving fund -- … and Drug Administration -- $220 million cut Cuts that will hurt the planet (especially cuts in EPA funds): Flood control and Coastal emergencies ( think BP! ) -- $30 million cut Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy -- $899 million cut EPA itself -- $1.6 billion cut Land and Water Conservation Fund -- $348 million cut Fish and …

… Media, Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope talks about the current attack in Congress on the EPA and by extension the Clean Air and Water Act. For more on the current assault, read "What's at Risk from the Industry's Assault on the EPA and Clean Air Act," on the Natural Resources Defense Council's Web site. It details all of …

… Carl Pope, executive chairman of the Sierra Club, about what’s behind the attack on the EPA. Following is their conversation. ---------------------------- … NAM : What’s happening with current efforts to undermine the EPA that people should be aware of? … Pope : The big picture is, during the eight years of the … link to the sign-up page. … So, the backlash has triggered efforts in Congress to stifle the EPA’s powers? … [We’re seeing] conservative politicians, political action committees within …

… according to John Gehring over on the Faith in Public Life blog: … Newt Gingrich and the EPA …

… by Bloomsbury Books, $16 Several years ago I volunteered my Honda Civic Hybrid for a local EPA project that measured the exhaust gasses from its tailpipe. A team of technicians installed a …

… which have improved our water and air for the past four decades. Politicians should not block EPA scientists from continuing to reduce carbon dioxide, mercury and other life-threatening … of our families rather than joining with the oil and coal industries to interfere with the EPA’s efforts to improve our quality of life.” David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon …

… closed doors with other big-money donors and political strategists to plot how to end the EPA's authority to protect our clean air and water. Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune …

… victory for the Sierra Club and its allies, on January 13 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoked a water pollution permit for the Spruce No.1 Mine in West Virginia, one of the …