To allow as many people to attend as possible, EPA is holding a satellite event the same day in New York City and also a webinar.
The new center is the only facility in the country completely dedicated to the ecosystem science of coral reefs.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Commerce Under Secretary Francisco Sanchez announced it during WEFECT 2012.
Growing Greener Plus Grants Offered by the Pennsylvania DEP
BP has agreed to sell the refinery where a March 2005 explosion killed 15 workers and triggered record OSHA fines. Marathon Petroleum Corporation will buy it and part of BP's retail and logistics network in the southeastern United States.
The $2.4 million from the Superfund program will help with sampling and remediating lead- and cadmium-contaminated soils disturbed by the May 2011 tornado or by cleanup afterward.
e-NEPA is a new online system they must use to submit them.
Forest landowners are invited to the Oct. 13 workshop to discuss assessing fire severity and vegetation impacts.
The Houston-Galveston Area Council has presented awards to the authority four consecutive years.
Among other things, the settling entities agreed to hire an approved third-party environmental consultant to perform audits at each mobile home park, including examination of the treatment, collection, and drinking water systems.
The organization's chair says the goal is make Ontario, CN "the place where the world buys its water management technology."
Highlands, a multi-family development operated by Sacramento|Yolo Mutual Housing Association, received 121 points from Oakland-based Build It Green (BIG).
Nancy Rabalais, marine ecologist and executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, won one of 23 new fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Energy savings from one of them, occupant responsive lighting systems, ranged from approximately 27 percent to 63 percent.
The agency on Sept. 28 released its evaluation of air samples taken about two weeks earlier at the Hillcrest Industries site in Attica, N.Y., and the surrounding community.
Connie M. Knight, 46, is charged with impersonating a federal employee for the purpose of enticing more than 1,000 people to pay her for fraudulent hazardous waste safety training, so they could work on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The company said these new leased vehicles replace its oldest diesel trucks and give it one of the largest private natural gas fleets in Southern California.
To reuse water requires capital that they would rather not spend if it's cheaper for them just to dispose of it. I think that's why we don't reuse that much. It might be more cost effective to figure out a way to reuse it than it would be not to.
The local government is providing $500,000 to help regional councils install solar-powered cameras and rain gauges before the 2012 wet season arrives.
Jeffrey Mousseau, currently a senior project manager for the lab's transuranic waste disposal program, is the new associate director for Environmental Programs.