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The next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to voluntarily stop using by 2015.Studies show that this chemical -- perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA -- is present in 98% of Americans' blood and 100% of newborns. It doesn't break down and thus accumulates in the system over time.

Environmental stories for the last couple weeks, relating to business, society, and law.

Plastic bag taxes, angry truckers, EPA blog, toy safety law likely to be passed, and some other stories you might like.

On Tuesday, four Democratic senators called for Stephen Johnson to resign as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to begin an investigation into whether he lied in testimony to a Senate committee.

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The latest hot topic in the carbon industry seems to be that of carbon capture and storage. The US EPA issued a proposal to formulate technical criteria for building, running and monitoring wells. This may lead to commercialization of the CCS technology, which is used to store CO2 deep under the ground. The proposal came out under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which safeguards ground-based water resources from contamination by any external, injection-related actions.

Despite the problems encountered in the process of developing a performance system of classification for servers, Environmental Protection Agency from the United States (EPA) plans to launch a phase of the first versions of new Energy Star standards until the end of the year, informs Greener Computing.

A mobile EPA air-monitoring laboratory recently acquired a rooftop wind turbine, becoming, as its on-board scientist puts it, “The Wind in the Winnebago.” When conditions are right, the turbine can charge up the Winnebago’s on-board batteries enough to power the entire mobile lab for eight hours “without a single wisp of generator exhaust.”

The Bush administration announced requirements Monday that would encourage developers to compensate for the destruction of wetlands or streams by paying for the restoration or creation of wetlands elsewhere, sometimes many miles away.

Stephen Johnson, Administrator for U.S. EPA, discusses Earth Day 2008, environmental responsibility and the major accomplishments of EPA.

This is a video timeline since the inception of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as told by those who ran the Agency from 1970-2008.

Step outside and take a long, deep breath. Was the air clean and fresh or are you hacking up a lung? Read the American Lung Association's 2007 State of the Air Report and more ways you can reduce outdoor air pollution.

To give an idea of how far we have progressed since the original advocates pressed for electronic recycling programs, Wal-Mart is calling for more uniform U.S. guidelines regarding consumer electronics, energy consumption and recycling.

In a victory for environmentalists, and a setback for big U.S. coal-burning utilities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act in 2005 when it exempted coal plants from the strictest emission controls for mercury and other toxic substances.

Intel tops the EPA's list of green energy purchasers. It plans to buy more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making it the largest corporate purchaser of alternative energy in the United States. The certificates will subsidize the development of wind, solar, biomass and small-scale hydro-electric sources of energy.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a field hearing in Los Angeles to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to denyCalifornia's request for a waiver under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate carbon tailpipe emissions.