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unusual facts about Environmental Protection Agency



1-Naphthaleneacetic acid

In the United States, under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), products containing NAA require registration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as pesticides.

Allegheny Technologies

In 2005, Allegheny Ludlum agreed to pay a US$2,375,000 penalty to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, which alleged that Ludlum had unlawfully discharged oil and other pollutants, such as chromium, zinc, copper, and nickel, into the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Deborah Batts

2006 - civil suit against former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman alleging that she misled people near World Trade Center site about risks of toxic air pollution after September 11, 2001 attacks.

Development communication

The terms ‘risk communications’ and ‘risk management’ were first used by William Ruckelshaus, the first administrator of the U.S. 'Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which was established in the 1970s.

Hydraulic fracturing proppants

Except for diesel-based additive fracturing fluids, noted by the American Environmental Protection Agency to have a higher proportion of volatile organic compounds and carcinogenic BTEX, use of fracturing fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations was explicitly excluded from regulation under the American Clean Water Act in 2005, a legislative move that has since attracted controversy for being the product of special interests lobbying.

Jagdish Bhagwati

In 2000, Bhagwati was signatory to an amicus briefing, coordinated by the American Enterprise Institute, with the Supreme Court of the United States to contend that the Environmental Protection Agency should, contrary to a prior ruling, be allowed to take into account the costs of regulations when setting environmental standards.

Jan Backus

A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT).

John A. Todhunter

John A. Todhunter (born October 9, 1949 in Cali, Colombia) was an official in the Environmental Protection Agency during the Reagan administration.

Kite-Eating Tree

One notable storyline features Charlie Brown threatening the Kite-Eating Tree to the effect that if it took a bite out of his kite, he would bite it, which he did, thus getting himself in trouble with the Environmental Protection Agency.

LandView

LandView is a public domain GIS viewer designed to display United States Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) data.

Patroon Creek

Several former customers of the plant including National Grid, Eveready, and Union Carbide put up over $4 million for the clean-up being supervised by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Sherri W. Goodman

Goodman has twice received the Department of Defense medal for Distinguished Public Service, in addition to the Gold Medal from the National Defense Industrial Association, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Award.

Sustainable Oils

Sustainable Oils is a Seattle-based renewable fuels company specializing in the research and production of Camelina, the only advanced biofuels feedstock with United States Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory approvals.

Taiwan Golden Bee

TGB has ISO 9001 and QS 9000 certified operation since 1995 and all products carry EC or EPA/DOT approval.

U.S. Route 6 in Connecticut

The Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, and Federal Highway Administration favored a southerly alignment (Alternative 133 18/25) that would cut through residential and commercial areas as well as the Hop River's adjoining wetlands.

Williams Tower

The building received the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star label for each year since 2000 in which the building was eligible to receive the award.


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Bradley M. Campbell

Campbell was nominated by President Clinton on December 15, 1999, to serve as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Middle Atlantic Region succeeding W. Michael McCabe, who had been named the EPA's Deputy Administrator.

Carl Soderberg

Carl Axel Soderberg, Director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 Caribbean Environmental Protection Division

Cigarette filter

Using standard tests adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Novotny and other researchers discovered that a cigarette butt soaked in a liter of water for four days will kill both the topsmelt and the freshwater fathead minnow fish species.

Frédéric Y. Bois

During a joint appointment at the California Environmental Protection Agency and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he developed, in collaboration with Andrew Gelman, the application of Bayesian numerical approaches to multilevel PBPK models.

John Richard Sheaffer

In 1973, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chose Dr. Sheaffer’s plan for Muskegon, Michigan as its first-ever waste water project post-The Clean Water Act.

Lee Thomas

Lee M. Thomas (born 1944), head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-1989

MACT

Maximum Achievable Control Technology, a kind of standard for emissions reduction promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency

Remy Blumenfeld

He is the son of the Sculptor, Helaine Blumenfeld and the writer, Yorick Blumenfeld His brother is Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for District 9.

Stringfellow

Stringfellow Acid Pits, a US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in California.