The EPEAT program was conceived by the US EPA and is based on IEEE 1680 standard for Environmental Assessment of Personal Computer Products.

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Simply stopping smoking, which is rampant in Japan, would more than erase any risk from Fukushima, even for those who do not smoke (second hand-smoke effects, US EPA).

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While I understand there are efforts to get much better inventories of CO2 emissions from these nations, when I asked a US EPA representative if their efforts were going to also inventory SO2 emissions (amount and height of emission), I was told they were not.

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The EPA nonetheless assures us the Rule will pay for itself many times over.

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Over the last four years, Lisa Jackson and her team at the EPA have helped us to reduce emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that causes climate change, put in place the toughest new pollution standards in two decades.

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And EPA is consulting with us and making sure those are met with.

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They give us a dispersant plan, and EPA is aware of that.

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In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated complaints from residents in Pavillion, Wyoming, who complained that fracking was affecting their drinking water.

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Our best scientists and public health officials (FDA, EPA, state and local health departments) are once again quite serious about protecting us, and they have the expensive equipment to do so, measuring radiation in milk, water and food down to a single picocurie.

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