US EPA to reconsider Lake Champlain cleanup plan (WRGB Albany)
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is going to reconsider a 2002 plan to clean up Lake Champlain. The EPA says it wants to consider new information on how rainfall and phosphorous levels and what would be the most effective way to reduce pollution in the lake.
State Legislators Ask Congress to Stop EPA (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sent a letter to U.S. Senators expressing concerns over the EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gases. Signed by over 90 state legislators representing 41 states, the letter points to encouraging bipartisan efforts in Congress such as Senate Joint Resolution 26 designed to prevent EPA from ...
EPA launches environmental justice video contest (Saipan Tribune)
WASHINGTO, D.C. (EPA)-The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges professional or aspiring filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justice movement.
U.S. Governors Urge Congress to Stop EPA Carbon Rules (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- A bipartisan group of U.S. governors today urged federal lawmakers to stop the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases under an existing law.
EPA Piecing Together Regulatory Framework for Greenhouse Gas Rules (New York Times)
U.S. EPA has submitted the first piece of its suite of greenhouse gas rules to the White House for review, a signal that the ...
Along canal, EPA plays corporate detective (New York Post)
Six degrees of separation from polluting the Gowanus Canal doesn’t mean a company has necessarily escaped a hefty cleanup bill.The Environmental Protection Agency has already named a series of companies it considers could be potentially responsible for polluting the recently named Superfund site. And agency officials continue to...
Supreme Court Won't Review Decision That Closed EPA Emissions 'Loophole' (New York Times)
The Supreme Court declined today to review a lower court's ruling prohibiting U.S. EPA from suspending normal emissions stand...
EPA orders Iduapriem Mine to stop using tailings storage facility (Ghanaweb.com)
Accra, March 9, GNA - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered AngloGold Ashanti (Iduapriem) Limited (AAIL) to stop using its 'tailings storage facility' at Iduapriem and Teberebie for non-compliance with best practice regarding the storage of waste material containing sodium cyanide.
EPA defends plan to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions (Environmental News Network)
The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for the economy. President Barack Obama has long said the EPA would take steps to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress failed to pass climate legislation. The bill faces an uncertain future in the ...
EPA Media Advisory (HQ): TODAY: EPA Administrator Jackson to Address the National Press Club (The Auto Channel)
*CONTACT:* EPA Press Office press@epa.gov *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* March 8, 2010 *TODAY: EPA Administrator Jackson to Address the National Press Club * "Jackson"" to discuss EPA's accomplishments and proposals for 2010" *WASHINGTON** - *TODAY,* *Monday, March 8, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will speak at the National Press Club. In ...