Lake Martin NOI News Release
Jul 30, 2008

Press Release for EIP and Earthjustice release report on mercury pollution from US cement kilns
Jul 23, 2008

Press Release: DQA Petition
Jul 10, 2008

EIP Releases Report on U.S. Refinery Expansions to Process Dirty Oil from Canadian Tar Sands
Tar Sands - Feeding U.S. Refinery Expansions with Dirty Fuel
Jun 4, 2008
Over two thirds of currently planned expansions of U.S. oil refining capacity are intended to accommodate heavier, dirtier crude oil from Canadian "tar sands," according to data on U.S. oil refinery permitting activity under the Clean Air Act ("CAA") recently compiled and analyzed by the Environmental Integrity Project. Out of the approximately 1.6 million barrels per day ("bpd") of increased refining capacity currently in the pipeline, about 1.1 million bpd will be devoted to refining tar sand oil. In addition, more than 800,000 bpd of existing conventional crude capacity is planned to be modified to process oil from tar sands, so that the total increase in tar sands capacity is over 1.9 million bpd, while conventional crude capacity is undergoing a net decrease of over 300,000 bpd. This is equivalent to constructing more than sixteen new refineries dedicated to tar sands. Refining tar sand oil will result in higher air emissions of harmful pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfuric acid mist, and nitrogen oxides, as well as toxic metals such as lead and nickel compounds. The consequences of tar sand oil extraction include the clear-cutting and strip-mining of huge portions of intact boreal forest ecosystem, the creation of vast un-reclaimable toxic lakes of wastewater, the consumption of enormous amounts of water and energy, and the production of three times more greenhouse gas as extracting conventional crude oil.

Press Release: Tar Sands
Jun 4, 2008

Press Release: Illinois Citizens Group Urges U.S. EPA to Strip State of Oversight of Fast-Growing CAFO
Discharge of Millions of Gallons of Animal Waste into Illinois Rivers and Streams Now Overlooked; Clean Water Act Enforcement by State Nonexistent for Illinois' 2,100 CAFOS.
May 14, 2008

Houston We Have A Problem
May 1, 2008
Texas residents are exposed to 14 known "toxic hotspots" that are not being addressed currently by industry, federal regulators and state officials and will require a major initiative to protect the public's health, according to a new report issued today by Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP), Industry Professionals for Clean Air, Houston; Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Austin; and Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), Austin. Using Houston - where industry today misses the Houston mayor's May 1, 2008 deadline for cleaning up certain toxic air emissions - as a case study to illustrate the threat to Lone Star state residents, the study also identifies 13 other Texas areas as "toxic hot spots" (in alphabetical order): Bastrop, Beaumont, Bowie/Cass County, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Evadale (Jasper County), Freeport, Galena Park and Lynchburg Ferry (Harris County), Port Arthur, Port Neches and Texas City. The dangerous airborne pollutants with long- and short-term health effects in these communities include arsenic, benzene, butyraldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, styrene, and more than half a dozen others with known adverse health impacts.

Press Release: Toxic Texas: Health Environmental Groups Say
May 1, 2008
Texas residents are exposed to 14 known "toxic hotspots" that are not being addressed currently by industry, federal regulators and state officials and will require a major initiative to protect the public's health, according to a new report issued today by Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP), Industry Professionals for Clean Air, Houston; Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Austin; and Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), Austin. Using Houston - where industry today misses the Houston mayor's May 1, 2008 deadline for cleaning up certain toxic air emissions - as a case study to illustrate the threat to Lone Star state residents, the study also identifies 13 other Texas areas as "toxic hot spots" (in alphabetical order): Bastrop, Beaumont, Bowie/Cass County, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Evadale (Jasper County), Freeport, Galena Park and Lynchburg Ferry (Harris County), Port Arthur, Port Neches and Texas City. The dangerous airborne pollutants with long- and short-term health effects in these communities include arsenic, benzene, butyraldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, styrene, and more than half a dozen others with known adverse health impacts.

Maryland citizens, Potomac Riverkeeper, and the Environmental Integrity Project Cite Nearly 13,000 Clean Water Act Violations at Charles County Mirant Fly Ash Landfill
Apr 2, 2008
The Faulkner Fly Ash Storage Facility, operated by the utility Mirant, is discharging selenium, cadmium, and other toxic pollutants into Maryland waters in violation of state law and without a federally required Clean Water Act permit. The toxic pollutants is entering Zekiah Swamp, cited by the Smithsonian as one of the most important ecological areas on the East Coast. Fly ash contains heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and other pollutants that are toxic to both human health and the environment. Coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce approximately 130 million tons of fly ash and other coal combustion waste each year, and the unregulated disposal of this waste has contributed to surface water and ground water contamination in at least thirteen different states.

Press Release: 13,000 Clean Water Act Violations at Charles County Mirant Fly Ash Landfill
Apr 2, 2008

Press Release: Greenhouse Gas Increase from U.S. Power Plants Highest Since 1998
Mar 18, 2008
Carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants rose 2.9 percent in 2007, the biggest single-year increase since 1998, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Emissions of carbon dioxide from the electric power industry have risen 5.9 percent since 2002, and 11.7 percent since 1997. Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Illinois and California are among the states with the largest increases over the past one, five, and ten years. EIP's report is available below, and detailed 50 state data may be found in the appendices.

Greenhouse Gas Increase from U.S. Power Plants Highest Since 1998
Mar 18, 2008