WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Environmental "Protection" Agency to Stop Considering Health Impacts of Pollution * Washington, D.C. - Today, the New York Times reported that the Environmental Protection Agency would cease to calculate the negative health impacts of air pollution in its future rulemaking process and only consider industry costs. On the EPA's website, the mission of the agency is to "protect human healt  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 [Category: Environment] -- Environmental Protection Network issued the following news release: * * * EPA Plans to Ignore Lives Saved When Rolling Back Air Pollution Limits * CONTACT: Aaron Bharucha, Public Relations Associate (509) 429-1699 and epn-press@environmentalprotectionnetwork.org Washington D.C. - According to a New York Times story published today, EPA will stop counting the public health benefits of reducing deadly air pollutants, including the prevention   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Sierra Club Nebraska Statement on Forced Outage at Aging OPPD Coal Plant * OMAHA, Neb. -Reports of a steam tube failure at OPPD's North Omaha coal plant once again raise reliability, health, and safety concerns. As a result of the failure, one of the two remaining coal units was taken offline last week. The forced outage follows a recent OPPD board vote to extend the life of the coal-fired  more