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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.

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EPA answers questions about air surveillance in Midwest but questions remain

The EPA has responded to concerns among Nebraska farmers and their Capitol Hill representatives about the agency's use of aerial surveillance to monitor livestock, saying the flights are to enforce federal laws regarding impaired watersheds such as rivers and streams.

An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman told FoxNews.com the agency has used the practice for nearly a decade a cost-efficient way for it and state governments to reduce the number of on-site inspections and focus on "areas of the greatest concerns."The flights are used across a swath of Midwest the agency calls Section 7, which is composed of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and  Missouri.The flights recently attracted the attention of a bipartisan group of Senate and House members from Nebraska, who this week wrote the EPA with a list on nearly two dozen concerns. "Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska pride themselves in the stewardship of our state's natural resources. As you might imagine, this practice has resulted in privacy ...

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  1. EPA says well water in northeastern Pa. gas drilling town is safe; residents dispute assertion

    Federal environmental regulators say testing of scores of drinking-water wells in a northeastern Pennsylvania village has failed to turn up unsafe levels of contamin...

  2. Farmers and frackers compete for water in Western US

    Battles over water in the arid American West are nothing new, and demands on the limited resource are growing fast. A boom in energy drilling made possible by hydrau...

  3. How to keep your cooling bill from heating up

    There are ways to beat the summer heat without paying a fortune. Here are some tips for saving money and staying cool.Ward off vampires  Vampires may be partly to bl...

  4. A top Romney adviser on oil, Oklahoma billionaire and Obama critic gave $985,000 to super PAC

    Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after ...

  5. BP settles with government, will pay $8M fine, spend $400M to cut pollution at Ind. refinery

    BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to install $400 million in new air pollution controls at its northwestern Indiana oil refinery and pay an $8 million fine u...

  6. Boston Bruins receive environmental merit award from U.S. Department of Environmental Protection

    NEW YORK – On Wednesday, May 11, the Boston Bruins received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Merit Award for their efforts in food waste reco...

  7. EPA again vows to send fresh water to Pa. village where wells were tainted by gas drilling

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will deliver fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential w...

  8. Energy in America: Ethanol concerns bring customers to more costly 'pure' gas stations

    When looking to fill up your tank, would you drive farther to pay more? Randy Hake's customers are doing just that, since he's the only gas station in York County, P...

  9. New Jersey community devastated by contaminated water

    Pompton Lakes residents plea for more to be done to rid lake of poisonous DuPont chemicals

  10. Air pollution tied to stroke, memory loss

    Living in a crowded city or near a busy highway may be tied to a higher chance of having a stroke or losing your memory, new research suggests.A study published Mond...

  11. AP Exclusive: Wyo. state officials pushed EPA to delay reporting fracking contamination study

    Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contaminati...

  12. Obama's EPA Could Be Toxic to His Re-Election Hopes

    "The Obama Administration's war on coal has got to stop, and we're going to court to fight it."-- West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, in a Wednesday ema...

  1. Arsenic in drinking water deemed 'safe' could harm mothers and children, study finds

    According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), drinking water with low levels of arsenic – 10 parts per billion – has been deemed nontoxic and okay for...

  2. FACT CHECK: A tough-talking official's words don't match EPA's actions in policing oil and gas

    In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his admini...

  3. EPA raises water concerns in permitting for portion of Keystone pipeline near Texas coast

    A Canadian company seeking to build a pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries has submitted a new application for the southern segment o...

  4. Nebraska lawmakers question EPA's aerial livestock surveillance

    A bipartisan group of Capitol Hill lawmakers is pressing EPA Director Lisa Jackson to answer questions about privacy issues and other concerns after the agency used ...

  5. FACT CHECK: A tough-talking official's words don't match EPA's actions in policing oil and gas

    In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his admini...

  6. EPA spying on ranchers?

    Midwest cattle farmers cry foul

  7. EXCLUSIVE: EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of 'Sustainable Development'

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate ...

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