In the first enforcement case concluded against the mining and mineral processing industry, EPA is requiring the company to implement comprehensive waste containment and spill prevention measures, reconfigure scrubbers and construct a treatment system for hazardous wastes generated in fertilizer operations.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company will have to install anti-idling equipment at all of its end-of-line stations and maintenance facilities.
More than 50 public meetings are scheduled for this CDC-ASTDR project about chemical exposures and public health. An action agenda is scheduled for release in December.
Samples from high- and low-income areas of San Francisco showed that 32 chemical compounds, some of them suspected or known endocrine disruptors, were more prevalent in indoor air than outdoor air.
On Aug. 11, EPA will explain how a low impact design competition had a ripple effect on Houston's design/build community.
The searchable database will help water utilities identify relevant impacts and help them target their responses.
A project committee is developing standards for compressed natural gas and for liquefied natural gas stations.
Exempt from the extension would be facilities involved in drilling, production or workover offshore, or onshore facilities that must submit facility response plans.
North Wind Services and TerranearPMC received recovery funding in the amounts of $14 million and $2 million, respectively, to manage construction and cleanup at Idaho National Laboratory.
The cities of Houston and Dallas purchase more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, according to EPA's Green Power Partnership.
According to EPA, many municipalities’ stormwater management plans are out of date and have not been fully implemented, and permits don’t always contain clear milestones to ensure that water quality standards would be met.
The agency has a website to answer questions about what technical solutions would be most useful to reviewing officials.
Columbia Law School has put out a call for papers for a spring 2011 symposium to address climate change effects on low-lying islands.
Boy Scouts are gathered in Fort A.P. Hill, Va., for their annual Jamboree, where Allied Waste has placed 450 trash and recycling bins to manage the cleanup.
The program establishes a baseline level of security for automation controls bearing the ISASecure certification and should help companies with procurement.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Fish and Wildlife Service are responsible for the ongoing monitoring and maintenance activities at the Morris County site.
Aquatic, which makes plastic composite bath products, invested in Dürr air emissions control technology that also provides energy from the collection and incineration of styrene.
Terrabon's AdVe technology will increase water supply at the Santa Isabel Water Treatment Plant.
The company is working with Focus Wildlife, the Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to minimize the impact on birds and wildlife in the area. A bird and wildlife rehabilitation center is now operational.
Environmental professional calls for Environmental Protection newsletter and EPA to take the blinders off.