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ABC15 Arizona
April 28, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general has opened yet another investigation into agency head Scott Pruitt. If this story sounds familiar, that's probably because Pruitt is facing nearly a dozen investigations from various government offices, both chambers of Congress and the White House.
Chicago Tribune
April 28, 2018
Despite the cost of the cleanup at the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site nearly tripling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will not alter its remediation plans, the agency said. The EPA recently released its final report on the expected costs of remediating land in East Chicago's Calumet neighborhood,Ãâà...
CNBC
April 28, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog has opened a probe of besieged Administrator Scott Pruitt's controversial Washington apartment rental. The investigation of that rental — from the wife of a lobbyist who had clients had business with the EPA — will be the fifth inquiry beingÃâà...
The Keene Sentinel
April 28, 2018
Two towns in the Monadnock Region stand to benefit from a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA has selected New Hampshire's Southwest Region Planning Commission for a Brownfields Program grant, according to a news release this week. A brownfield is a propertyÃâà...
Environmental Defense Fund
April 27, 2018
(Washington, D.C. – April 27, 2018) Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) joined almost a million Americans in supporting the Clean Power Plan by sending formal comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing Administrator Scott Pruitt's “lawless and destructive” effort to repeal theÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
April 27, 2018
A new EPA office will try to keep federal environmental reviews from needlessly slowing down permitting for energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects that threaten endangered species, an agency official said April 26. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce as early as April 27Ãâà...
Roanoke Times
April 27, 2018
Six Virginia communities and agencies received $2.4 million in grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assess and revitalize “brownfields,” properties with potential contaminants or hazardous materials. The EPA selected 144 communities around the country to receive a total of $54.3Ãâà...
Science Magazine
April 26, 2018
At an event at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., that was closed to the press, agency head Scott Pruitt touted the new policy as a way to increase transparency and enable the public to double-check research underpinning environmental regulations. The rule would require the agency to use onlyÃâà...
Reno Public Radio
April 24, 2018
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made the announcement last week. The Anaconda Copper Mine was included on the Superfund list back in 2016, but the EPA's updated list no longer includes the site as cleanup activities progress. The site covers more than 3,400 acres in the Mason Valley inÃâà...
WOSU
April 24, 2018
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is asking for broad public input on its plan to have the open waters of western Lake Erie declared impaired under the federal Clean Water Act. And a leading group opposed to the state agency's decision is encouraging its supporters to offer feedback, too.
Union of Concerned Scientists
April 24, 2018
Washington (April 24, 2018)—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just changed the way it enforces clean air rules, and the consequences could be dire for millions of Americans, according to an analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). EPA Assistant Administrator William WehrumÃâà...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
April 24, 2018
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again” could be the motto of one of the key research programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known as the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). EPA staff have been working for nearly a decade to improve the scientific process of this program, but haveÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The security chief for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been operating an outside consulting firm without proper approval from ethics officials, Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt last year tapped EPA special agent Pasquale "Nino"Ãâà...
The New Yorker
April 22, 2018
The Hill reported on Friday that the lobbyist whose wife had rented a room to Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, at a very favorable rate, had tried to set up a meeting earlier this year with the E.P.A. on behalf of the philanthropic arm of one of his clients, despite having insisted he hadÃâà...
KHON2
March 21, 2018
HONOLULU (KHON2) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that a settlement has been reached with Dole Food Co. Inc. The EPA says the company failed to closed two large capacity cesspools at its Puuiki Beach Park property on Oahu. Under the settlement, the company has closedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will use heavy equipment to break up and smother burning tires that ignited when a wildfire spread ... EPA on-scene coordinator Duane Newell said Tuesday the tires were in bales compressed with metal straps to make a fence about 6 feet (2 meters) inÃâà...
Philly.com
March 21, 2018
Molly Michel of South Philadelphia keeps her children inside some days because of air pollution, so she's particularly irked by a long delay by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to say officially whether Philadelphia has a smog problem. That designation could mean more regulation to help clean upÃâà...
WeAreGreenBay.com
March 21, 2018
Marinette, Wis. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has halted the issuance of a permit for the "Back Forty" Mine project as proposed. The EPA put a 90 day hold on the project permitting and requested the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to address specific objections.
Kokomo Tribune
March 21, 2018
Nabil Fayoumi, remedial project manager of Superfund division for region 5 of the EPA, walks up the berm to take a look at the staging area where ... INDIANAPOLIS — President Trump's proposed budget cuts of $2.5 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency would harm programs in Indiana,Ãâà...
WBAY
March 21, 2018
(WBAY) - The Environmental Protection Agency denied a wetland permit for the Aquila Back 40 mine, the final permit needed for the project. Among its objections, the EPA says Aquila Resources did not explain how it would manage discharge from the mine to meet water quality standards. That's been aÃâà...
Chippewa Herald
March 21, 2018
The EPA has raised objections to a mining company's plans for destroying wetlands near the Menominee River on the border between Michigan and ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has formally objected to a Canadian company's plans for a controversial mine along the Wisconsin-MichiganÃâà...
Green Bay Press Gazette
March 20, 2018
Both developers and opponents of the proposed mine near the mouth of the Menominee River had guarded reaction to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency objection earlier this month to the issuance of the mine's wetlands permit by the state of Michigan. In a letter earlier this month, EPA cited multipleÃâà...
The Chesapeake Bay Journal
March 3, 2018
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced plans to restore grant funding to the Bay Journal, ending a six-month controversy over ... The publication had received agency funding through the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program office since its inception in 1991 to help inform the publicÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 2, 2018
But the Environmental Protection Agency now hopes more developers like Unzicker, manager of environmental compliance at energy infrastructure provider Genesis Energy LP, choose contaminated properties deemed ready for redevelopment. To that end, the agency is encouraging potentiallyÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 2, 2018
By Sara Merken. Scientists and animal welfare advocates want an upcoming EPA strategy on ways to reduce the use of animals in chemical safety tests to state specifically what is expected of both regulators and companies. The Environmental Protection Agency will release its long-awaited strategic planÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 2, 2018
President Donald Trump has picked a chemical industry insider to run the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees emergency response ... The White House announced that Trump has nominated Peter C. Wright to serve as EPA's assistant administrator for Land and Emergency Management.
Bloomberg BNA
March 1, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency did not respond to repeated inquiries asking for more recent staffing figures. But some of those reviews are already underway, according to the EPA and regulated industries. First up are the toxic pollutant standards for Portland cement kilns, which the EPA mustÃâà...
TIME
March 1, 2018
Throughout the Trump administration's first year in office, the Environmental Protection Agency has been quietly scrubbing mentions of climate change and tweaking related language on its website – an effort critics have decried as scientific censorship. The EPA is far from the only federal agency to get aÃâà...
CityLab
February 28, 2018
Late last week, even as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Trump administration continued a plan to dismantle many of the institutions built to address those disproportionate risks, researchers embedded in the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment released a study indicating thatÃâà...
Science Magazine
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to shut down a grant-making center that supports leading-edge research on human exposure to pollution and its effects. Under the proposed consolidation, the grants, contracts and administrative functions of the National Center forÃâà...
