U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News

Ships cannot dump sewage within three miles of the California coast, according to new rules approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Count Dracula lives, thanks to pro-development legislators who are protecting the profits of developers and their own political careers, instead of the health and safety of us all.

Six New England communities will receive technical assistance from the federal Environmental Protection Agency through the "Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities" program.

A three-day Clean Air Act inspection conducted in November by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found a handful of leaking valves and pumps at the MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources plant in Chartiers Township.

"Our Trailblazer Energy Center permitting eorts are not aected by those rules since the relevant permits were issued prior to the eective date of the new federal permitting requirements," said Greg Kunkel, Tenaska's vice president for environmental aairs.

Reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's rules to combat emissions that cross state lines would be a blow to Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., which spent $1.3 billion since 2007 to clean up two coal-fired New Jersey power plants to meet national air-quality standards set into law two decades ago.

In a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency , Union Pacific Railroad has agreed to pay $1.5 million for Clean Water Act violations in three states, including Colorado.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to respond to the Texas Railroad Commission which had asked the EPA to reclassify its draft report linking hydraulic fracturing to ground water contamination as a "scientific assessment." With the EPA's controversial December hydraulic fracturing draft report still up for peer review, the Texas ... (more)

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan comes after the federal agency failed to meet a statutory October deadline to revise soot standards.

Federal officials have told DuPont to take a second look at whether bacteria in the soil could be used to clean up contamination beneath a Pompton Lakes neighborhood.

It was standing room only at Thursday's public hearing between city officials, Garrison City residents and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A federal rule banning ships from flushing their sewage into the sea within 3 miles of the California coast was approved Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

After public outcry by California mosquito control agencies that strict new permitting regulations would eliminate West Nile virus fogging and jeopardize public health, the state Thursday proposed scaled-back pesticide regulations that would ease rules on fumigating adult mosquitoes.

Federal environmental regulators have given final approval to a rule that bans cruise ships and large cargo vessels from releasing sewage into the ocean within three miles of California's coast.

The Associated Press is reporting that FirstEnergy Corp. announced Wednesday it will shut down three aging coal-fired power plants in West Virginia later this year.

A Mississippi levee board is asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project that the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed in 2008, claiming it would harm wetlands and wildlife.

This week we take a look at the impact that President Ronald Reagan and his controversial environmental policies had on the butte.

MANITOWOC - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted Lake Michigan Carferry Service, the owner of the S.S. Badger, permission to apply for an individual permit, according to a press release.

The Gate City has just been selected by the Environmental Protection Agency to participate in the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program and will receive a free Complete Streets workshop.

Southwestern Electric Power Co. has asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission to review its plans to retrofit its coal-fired plant in Gentry with environmental controls.