Environmental Quality News

American Electric Power Co Inc's 670-megawatt Oklaunion coal-fired power unit stopped for an unplanned outage for maintenance and repair, a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality showed on Thursday.

Sludge in Sand Coulee can eat through boots. Acid drainage in Tracy burns through farmland.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has signed off on the final dissolution of Bexar Metropolitan Water District - which clears the way for San Antonio Water System to manage all of BexarMet's assets and liabilities.

The ninth Oregon Brownfields Conference will be held June 13-14 in Portland and include the presentation of awards to four outstanding brownfield cleanup projects, including the Sunriver Homeowners Aquatic and Recreation Center .

Even though Mineral Park, Inc. recently reached an agreement with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the Arizona Attorney General's Office to pay $1.3 million for air quality violations that occurred in Mohave County beginning in 2007, the issues stated have been fixed for about a year.

The ozone health watch originally was issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for just Monday, but it's been extended twice.

On Tuesday, owners of the Marana landfill set to be built west of the Marana Airport cleared another hurdle in their effort to obtain an air quality permit.

Virginia hired a Colorado-based environmental firm to help a multi-agency workgroup analyze uranium mining and milling and associated regulatory issues.

A company that operates coal-fired plants in Wyoming says a federal proposal to accelerate the reduction of air pollution from its plants requires an unreasonably aggressive time frame.

Let's say you own a beach house. You might want to pull out some plants or mow them or smooth out the sand to make it look nice.

This computer-generated NASA map shows the position of the debris field as of April 3, 2012.

Portland loves its reputation as a clean-green city, a place where trees scrub the air and rain rinses away the rest -- and where every business is zero-emissions and eco-friendly. There is one problem with this perception: It's not quite true.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Louisiana has about $1 million in funding that will be spent on four watersheds to improve water quality.

It's been coming for years, and now a state agency has a September deadline to add the parts of Dallam County with no protection against critical groundwater shortages or future threats to supplies to a nearby water district.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has notified the city of Humphrey of several violations at its wastewater treatment plant.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is lending $9.3 million to the city of Zachary to repair and replace sewer collection lines and pump stations in areas throughout the city.

Students and staff at the Wind Energy Center at Kalamazoo Valley Community College has determined the cause of the malfunctioning wind turbine at the Department of Environmental Quality office in Bay City.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has awarded Hernando a solid-waste assistance grant of $8,547 that will be used by the city to promote its curbside recycling program.

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has stopped working on the Dynamis permit-which had been on a fast track application schedule.

Arizona authorities say a mining company has agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine to resolve numerous air quality violations in Mohave County.