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| The discharge of untreated human sewage into waterways in Ohio's Lake Erie basin is extremely common, largely as a result of the region's antiquated sewer systems. Studies show that this pollution has the potential to harm the health of those who swim in or drink from those waterways. |
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| Using information provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, this report analyzes all major facilitiesa violating their Clean Water Act permits between July 1, 2003 and December 31, 2004, reveals the type of pollutants they are discharging into our waterways, and details the extent to which these facilities are exceeding their permit levels. |
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| More than 88 million Americans still live in areas with unsafe levels of fine particle pollution. This report examines levels of fine particle pollution in cities and towns nationwide in 2004 and finds that fine particles continue to pose a grave health threat to Americans. |
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| Power plants are the largest industrial source of U.S. air emissions of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that poses serious health hazards. While current law requires swift, steep reductions in power plant mercury emissions, the Bush administration recently promulgated regulations that allow power plants to avoid the Clean Air Act requirement to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants quickly and by the maximum achievable amount. |
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| This report, which is based on a comprehensive survey of environmental agencies from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, examines levels of ozone and fine particle pollution in cities and towns across the country in 2003 and finds that air pollution continues to pose a grave health threat to Americans. |
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| In August 2003, the Bush administration issued final rule changes to the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program, breaking a decades-old promise codified in the Clean Air Act itself - that old power plants, when making other life-prolonging modifications, would be required to install modern pollution controls. |
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| Our environment, and now our food supply, is becoming increasingly contaminated with mercury, an extremely dangerous toxic chemical. When mercury is ingested in its organic form, methylmercury, it can lead to neurological damage, especially in children. |
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| October 18, 2002 marks the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, landmark legislation that set the ambitious goals of making all waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation's waterways by 1985. Although we have made important strides in water quality since the birth of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing its original vision. |
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