Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded funding to eight organizations throughout the United States to protect public health by reducing exposure to indoor pollutants, such as radon, and environmental asthma triggers ...
Tags: public health, indoor pollutants, Protection
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Suncor Energy has agreed to pay $230,400 in penalties to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) ...
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The Consumer Action Law Centre has welcomed the Competition Policy Review Draft Report and its emphasis ‘on protecting competition and not competitors.’ But Consumer Action will be asking the review’s panellists to ...
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California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill to encourage the production of electric cars and making it more affordable for low-income residents. The initiative is to have at least one million zero-emission and near-zero-emission ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public ...
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(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a $331,000 low-interest loan to the City of Rochester, New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is being awarded under the EPA’s ...
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ATLANTA - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it is awarding over $179,000 to three organizations for the restoration of the Proctor Creek Watershed in Atlanta, Ga. Nationally, $2.1 million was awarded to 36 ...
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Critics of electronic cigarettes have been making efforts to prove that the devices are just like the harmful traditional cigarettes. Choosing to believe these allegations rather than basing decisions according to scientific data and ...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announces it has selected the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC) in Los Angeles, Calif. to receive a $200,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grant to provide ...
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Cradles to Crayons (C2C) is a non-profit organization helping homeless and low-income children in Boston and Philadelphia get the essentials they need to feel safe, warm, valued, and ready to learn. When C2C Boston relocated its "Giving ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Scranton is one of 14 communities nationwide to receive EPA support to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and boost resilience to the ...
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How much of Walmart's revenue comes from its shoppers' food stamps? The store isn't required to say. But a January Court of Appeals ruling could change that. If the unanimous decision by the Eighth Circuit's panel of three judges holds, the ...
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An increase in food prices changed dietary patterns of both high and low-income societies in past decades, parallel to an increase of cancer, an expert says. Dr. Sandra Crispim, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sao Paulo, ...
Tags: increase in food prices, changes in food quality, impact meal frequency
Long before the dawn of the pacifier, parents of newborns and toddlers found ways to use surrounding resources to help soothe and distract tots into precious moments of peace. In today's smartphone era, a proliferation of applications, ...
Overall, U.S. obesity rates are unchanged, but obesity rates in young children ages 2 to 5 declined significantly from 2003/2004 to 2011/2012, officials say. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in the ...