Thursday, April 18, 2024
The Navajo Nation Abandoned Mine Lands Program (NNAML) will continue its efforts to clean up abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation with a $329,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued an administrative order that will see the Hopi Tribe reduce levels of arsenic in the drinking water at the Hopi Cultural Center and reach compliance with federal standards in two months.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved an application from the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians in which they requested “treatment in a similar manner as a state” per the federal Clean Water Act.
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The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) recently settled with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice and the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) over stormwater management violations.
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The Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE), at the University of California, Berkeley, recently received $6 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
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Par Hawaii Refining recently agreed to a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding Clean Air Act violations at the company's Kapolei Refinery.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently located and removed two underground storage tanks in McKinley County, New Mexico, at the site of the former Smith Lake Trading Post, which might have been buried since the 1950s or 1960s.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently recognized the seven winners of the 2016 Clean Air Excellence Awards with a ceremony in Washington, D.C., including three groups based in Southern California.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed heightening the water quality criteria for selenium in the San Francisco Bay and Delta, which would protect aquatic species and reduce exposure to the contaminant.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently settled with two Sparks, Nevada, companies, in an agreement that includes a $12,000 civil penalty, over allegations that they distributed and sold an unregistered and misbranded pesticide
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently detailed its response and assessment activities carried in the wake of the Fruitland Magnesium fire Incident in Maywood, California, which it is undertaking in a Unified Command with county-level agencies.
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The Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency recently received $465,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to monitor water quality in the San Juan River, adding to the $1 million the tribe received last October for environmental activities throughout the reservation.
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Seven communities in Arizona, California and Nevada will benefit from a combined $2.69 million in federal funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which will allow them to assess or clean up contaminated brownfields properties.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded five universities, including the University of Arizona (UA), funding to establish centers to understand how environmental conditions can be improved for vulnerable populations.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently took action against two Nevada companies for violations of federal pesticide worker safety laws, which the Nevada Department of Agriculture discovered during June 2015 inspections.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection are accepting public comments on proposed permit modifications that would see the U.S. Ecology hazardous waste facility located outside of Beatty, Nevada, expand by 47.3 acres.
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The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is working to increase public awareness about the sources and distribution of stormwater pollution through a new education and outreach campaign called “Protect Every Drop.”
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California Gov. Edmund G. Brown recently proposed a testing and cleanup plan to address properties impacted by Vernon, California’s, former Exide Technologies facility that would use a $176.6-million budget to hasten progress and expand the existing efforts.
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The Bureau of Reclamation recently released it 2016 spending plan, which devotes more than half of the $166.3 million appropriated to the bureau in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 to Western drought response.
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California Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte recently met in San Francisco to further their cooperative efforts toward fighting climate change, including discussions on renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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