On March 10, 2005, EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule ( CAIR ).

According to the May 2005 Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) Perchlorate Report, an EPA official has estimated about 10 million people may have been exposed to perchlorate through their drinking water.

In February 2005, the organization launched a program called " Your MPG " that allows drivers to add real-world fuel economy statistics into a database on the EPA's fuel economy website and compare them with others and the original EPA test results.

The lower cost to rebuild and maintain made the two stroke engine incredibly popular, until the EPA mandated more stringent emission controls in 1978 ( taking effect in 1980 ) and in 2004 ( taking effect in 2005 and 2010 ).

Some of these programs include Ecosystem Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites, Environmental Stewardship, EPA Superfund, Abandoned Mine Lands, Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, Base Realignment and Closure, 2005, and Regulatory.

* " Swimmable by 2005 " EPA Effort

He was one of a small group of Republicans to vote in favor of banning loans to China for any nuclear projects, and in September 2005 he voted to disapprove a new rule set in place by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) delisting coal and other energy sources from the Clean Air Act.

An earlier study from 2005 by the EPA and the Geographical Survey states that 40 % of water was contaminated with nonprescription pharmaceuticals, and it has been reported that of the 8 of the 12 most commonly occurring chemicals in drinking water are estrogenic hormones.

Federal Emergency Management Agency | FEMA / United States Environmental Protection Agency | EPA Hazardous Materials Team removing hazards left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

On November 22, 2005, the EPA gave the Lake Hopatcong Commission a federal grant of $ 745, 000 to improve the water quality and prevent phosphorus from entering the lake.

The RfD proposed by NAS was accepted by EPA and added to its integrated risk information system ( IRIS ) in 2005.

In 2005, the EPA appointed a panel of experts to conduct an open peer-review of the program and its orientation.

* EPA ratings for manual transmission: city / hwy ( 2007MY +); city / hwy ( 2005 / 06 )

* EPA ratings for automatic transmission: city / hwy ( 2007MY +); city / hwy ( 2005 / 06 )

In June 2005, J. R. Simplot agreed to pay a $ 4550 fine for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in a settlement with the EPA.

On January 26, 2005, when Leavitt became secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Johnson became acting administrator of EPA.

During his April 6, 2005 Senate confirmation hearing, EPA was criticized for support of using human subjects in pesticide testing.

" Negotiations between the EPA and the agricultural industry did, however, result in an Air Compliance Agreement in January 2005.

On April 8, 2005, Johnson cancelled the study while he was awaiting Senate confirmation as EPA Administrator after the program was criticized.

In June 2005, Mosler announced that they had reached EPA and California Air Resources Board ( CARB ) certification on the MT900S, finally allowing road car sales to begin in the United States.

One and Two Potomac Center was completed in November 2005 and houses several EPA offices.

The EPA is currently prohibited by law from regulating fracking, the result of the " Halliburton Loophole ," a clause added to the 2005 energy bill at the request of then-vice president Dick Cheney, who was CEO of Halliburton before becoming vice president.

In 2005, the EPA placed a lien on of Bradley-owned property at the mine site to recover cleanup costs estimated at $ 27 million.

* Chris Mooney, Boston Globe, August 28, 2005, " Thanks to a little-known piece of legislation, scientists at the EPA and other agencies find their work questioned not only by industry, but by their own government "

According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.

* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Chilean exports to the United States totaled US $ 9. 3 billion, representing a 37. 7 % increase compared to 2005 ( US $ 6. 7 billion ).

Until at least September 2005, the United States funded efforts to help protect a major pipeline, the 769-kilometer-long Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, which carries about 20 percent of Colombia's oil production to Puerto Coveñas from the guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, passed by the United States Congress, found:

Exports from the United States, including those from Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republic in 2005 totaled $ 5. 3 billion, up 11 % from the previous year.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

* 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.

* 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer ( b. 1922 )

In the United States, these chemicals were detected in almost all human blood samples tested by the Centers for Disease Control in 2005, though their levels have sharply declined since most uses were banned in the US.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2005 changed channelization and licensing costs in a nearby band ( 1920 MHz – 1930 MHz, or 1. 9 GHz ), known as Unlicensed Personal Communications Services ( UPCS ), allowing DECT devices to be sold in the U. S. with only minimal changes.

* Humane Society of the United States – 28 % for 2005 – 2006

* 2005 UNMIS United Nations Mission in Sudan.

In 2005, the population of the United States spent $ 496 billion for out-of-home dining.

As of 2005, Fiji has become embroiled in a number of disagreements with other countries, including Australia, China, New Zealand, the United States, and Vanuatu.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2005 the population of the City of Fort Collins was 128, 026, the population of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area was 271, 927 ( 163rd most populous MSA ), and the population of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4, 013, 055.

A " Roaring Forties " replica of a 1965 Ford GT40 in Shelby livery on display at the 2005 United States Grand Prix

In 2005 Guatemala ratified its signature to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) between the United States of America and several other Central American countries.

In 2005, Lineker was sued for defamation by Australian footballer Harry Kewell over comments Lineker had made writing in his column in the Sunday Telegraph about Kewell's transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool.

According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.