environmental protection agency

April 20, 2007 - We've been covering a lot of environmental issues here at Facing South lately (especially Sue Sturgis, our resident environmental reporter).

April 2, 2007 - A Facing South analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2005 toxic release inventory data for states across the region offers some good news and some bad news: While air pollution emitted by the region's industrial facilities declined slightly from the previous year, the amount of pollution dumped into surface wa

December 19, 2006 - Speaking of boneheaded moves by federal authorities who are supposed to protect public health, the U.S.

December 18, 2006 - A coalition of public health and environmental groups filed suit last week against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to toughen the national standard for particulate matter pollution to a level that could prevent thousands of premature deaths every year.

June 28, 2005 - From South Knox Bubba:  

August 1, 1995 - Residents are giving some heat to the EPA over an incinerator that was built to clean up a hazardous waste Superfund site.

March 1, 1986 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 14 No. 2, "Water Politics." Find more from that issue here.