EPA Plans to Trim Budget By Closing Labs, Reducing Oversight
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By David Goldstein, McClatchy Washington Bureau  Sep. 16--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency intends to  close labs, cut its cadre of upper-level scientists and reduce regulatory  oversight, according to an internal agency document.
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The Blue Bell, Pa.-based company said it will close some of its facilities and reduce its employee head count.
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U.S. News & World Report - House Democrats set the stage this morning for what promises to be a bruising battle over the EPA budget and the direction of the agency itself in a House environmental subcommittee hearing.
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The cartel moves to cut production, which could end recent declines in petroleum prices.
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The Bush administration, looking at the prospect of stronger oversight from a Democratic-led Congress, is withdrawing a proposal to let big polluters report less often on what they spew from their smokestacks.
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U.S. environmental regulators are  considering removing lead, a heavy metal linked to learning  problems in children, from a list of regulated pollutants  because past rules have greatly reduced levels of the toxin.
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Governors of 20 U.S. states must slash levels of tiny particles spewed by power plants, cars and other sources by 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday.
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The EPA tightens its rules on very small particles, but not enough to satisfy environmentalists
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Some say the decision to shutter branches reduces the agency's capability to review industry submissions.
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By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 12--State efforts to clean polluted rivers will suffer if lawmakers cut the EPA's budget, the agency said.
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The institutions that are to close or be merged under an effort to shrink New Yorkâs hospital industry will receive public funds to cover legal costs associated with closing and to pay off debts, state health officials said.
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President Bush said Saturday that his administration will outline a series of changes that would clamp down on the common Capitol Hill practice of slipping pet projects into spending bills.
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When British regulators shut down Chiron Corporationâs (an Emeryville, Calif. biotechnology company) Liverpool, England factory on Tuesday, Oct. 5, citing concerns about bacterial contamination, they cut
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The company tightens its forecast on cost concerns.
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Its goal is to reduce the time office staff spends compiling and preparing information for directors to make decisions.
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By Anonymous  Louisiana environmental scientists today briefed Capitol Hill  lawmakers about the damaging effects of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and the necessary steps to close it.
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WASHINGTON -- Under a far-reaching policy change to be announced today, all staff scientists at the National Institutes of Health will be banned from accepting consulting fees or other income from drug companies, and the employees also must divest industry stock holdings.