Thursday, October 3, 2024
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan joined representatives from Canada and Mexico virtually as he chaired the 28th annual session of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Council. Administrator Regan was joined by Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources María Luisa Albores González and Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Catherine Stewart.
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News Release: DALLAS – (Sept. 10, 2021) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages decisionmakers to consider the needs of communities with environmental justice concerns experiencing effects from Hurricane Ida. EPA’s EJSCREEN tool can help federal, state, local, Tribal, and private-sector responders determine which communities may bear a larger burden from environmental exposures or other factors following the hurricane.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page notice on Sept. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Sept. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Sept. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. (September 9, 2021) —This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites and proposing to add another 13 sites including the National Fireworks site in Cordova, Tennessee to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) where releases ...
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News Release: Society Hill, SC (September 9, 2021) — This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites and proposing to add another 13 sites including the Galey and Lord Plant site in Society Hill, South Carolina to the Superfund National Priorities List ...
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News Release: DALLAS – (Sept. 9, 2021) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding air quality evaluations in Louisiana communities affected by Hurricane Ida. Today, at the request of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), EPA will begin air sampling near certain industrial ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON – (September 9, 2021) Today, in an online ceremony, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership recognized 12 supermarket industry organizations and one advanced refrigeration system manufacturer for their exceptional achievements in reducing the impacts of commercial refrigeration systems on the environment.
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News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced settlements with four companies for alleged violations of Clean Air Act chemical release prevention requirements at four anhydrous ammonia facilities in Central California. The companies will pay more than $826,000 in civil penalties and make safety improvements to their facilities, with the goal of protecting the public and first responders from dangerous chemicals.
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News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, EPA took an important step in seeking to reinitiate the process of making a Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404(c) determination to protect certain waters in Bristol Bay, Alaska. If such a determination is finalized, it would protect waters over the long term that are essential to commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries and other activities that support Alaska Natives and communities in the state.
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News Release: NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks. EPA is also proposing to add another 13 sites including Ochoa ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a renewed five-year Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement addresses key areas of collaboration to strengthen environmental governance, create healthy communities, ...
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News Release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to add Bradford Island to its Superfund list of the country’s highest priority contaminated sites requiring cleanup. Bradford Island, an Island in the Columbia River, is part of the Bonneville Dam complex operated by the U.S. Army ...
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News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites and proposing to add another 13 sites to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks. EPA is ...
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News Release: NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites to the National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks. EPA is also proposing to add another 13 sites including Meeker ...
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News Release: DALLAS – (September 8, 2021) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites and proposing to add another 13 sites to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental ...
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News Release: Billings, Mont. -- Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding the Billings PCE site in Yellowstone County, Montana, to the National Priorities List (NPL). The Billings PCE site is among four sites across the nation being added to the NPL to address ...
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News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (Sept. 8, 2021) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding four sites to the National Priorities List (NPL), including the Cherokee Zinc-Weir Smelter Superfund site in Weir, Kansas, where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 8, 2021) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed adding the Bear Creek Sediments site in Baltimore County, Maryland, today to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for remedial cleanup action financed under the federal Superfund program.
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