U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News

Chemicals are being discarded into our water systems throughout the country as well as reported by NBC News.Com, reporting that Minnesota's many lakes, remote and isolated urban areas contain a wide range of chemicals which included DEET, EPA, prescription drugs and also cocaine.

The public comment period is scheduled to end next week on a federal study of large mining impacts in the Bristol Bay region.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's governor and attorney general are joining two other states that are seeking to challenge federal environmental rules on greenhouse gas emissions.

The House voted 241-175 -- largely along party lines -- to pass legislation that would speed up the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, despite threats of a veto by President Barack Obama.

Dan Jaffe, UW-Bothell professor, is using crowdfunding to raise money to study how passing coal trains impact air quality.

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Federal officials have decided to spend the money needed to clean an Attleboro property contaminated with chemicals through decades of pollution by a previously existing chrome-plating plant.

West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed off, she's taking them on in a legal case that could benefit thousands of small farmers.

It's budget season in Piedmont, which in my experience is one of the best-kept secrets in town.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to settle water pollution violations at three treatment plants in Indiana and Venango counties that discharge wastewater from Marcellus Shale gas drilling into the Allegheny River watershed.

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to add three superfund sites in Indiana to its highest priority cleanup list for hazardous waste, and one of those is in South Bend.

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force harmful compounds off the market.

The video highlights the role citizen science has played in raising awareness about pollution from the Tonawanda Coke Corp.

Fridley's Citizen Advisory Group for local polluted Superfund sites meets on Thursday, May 23, 2013, from 6-8 p.m. at Fridley City Hall .

Proctor Creek, the waterway that snakes from downtown and through northwest Atlanta before ending in the Chattahoochee River, wasn't always so polluted, says Na'Taki Osborne Jelks.

How do you go about protecting yourself from acquiring environmental liability? The best answer is to do a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment .

The federal government is fining a southeast Kansas refinery $300,000 for deficiencies in the company's program to curb air pollution.

Washington County authorities say a man faked a marriage certificate so he could visit a woman held in the Johnson City Detention Facility.

Washington County authorities say a man faked a marriage certificate so he could visit a woman held in the Johnson City Detention Facility.