A senior Environmental Protection Agency official who used the word “crucify” in describing how the EPA enforced laws in the oil industry resigned today, saying that he’d become a distraction. “My continued service will distract you and the agency,” Al Armendariz said in his resignation letter to EPA chief Lisa Jackson. “I regret comments I [...]

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The U.S Geological Survey has confirmed that radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was measured in minimal amounts in precipitation in the U.S. in approximately 20 percent of 167 sites sampled in a nationwide study released earlier this week. The USGS led the study as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition [...]

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Researchers announced yesterday that a sweetener used in powdered baby formula and some organic and gluten-free foods may contain dangerously high levels of arsenic. Environmental chemist Brian P. Jackson, director of the Trace Element Analysis Core Facility at Dartmouth University, said his team found arsenic levels six times higher than what the EPA considers safe [...]

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Look…up in the sky…it’s a bird…it’s a plane…oh, it’s just NASA‘s P-3B research plane. That’s right, Maryland.  NASA will be measuring the air quality over our great state today, according to the Baltimore Sun. The space agency is will be taking air quality samples as part of its DISCOVER-AQ air quality field campaign. The special [...]

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The Fukushima fallout fun continues as milk from Little Rock, Arkansas and drinking water from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have been found to contain the highest levels yet of Iodine-131 from Japan by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by the EPA released on Saturday. Preliminary analysis indicates that the sample from Philly is below [...]

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Whew. That was close. In the bottom of the ninth, House, Senate, and Obama administration officials managed to avert a federal government shutdown and managed to agree on a budget for the rest of the fiscal year. It’s a budget that no one is crazy about, but they’ve admitted they can all live with it [...]

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Here’s something that could keep you up at night. A new study released today by the non-profit Environmental Working Group reveals that the harmful chemical hexavalent chromium may be present in the tap water of as many as 31 U.S. cities. Hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium 6, was featured prominently in the 2000 movie [...]

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