Disaster Recovery News
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Commission outlines measures to maximise job opportunities in the green economy
The European Commission has today adopted a Communication outlining the employment challenges and opportunities of the current transition towards a green, low carbon, energy and resource-efficient economy. The Green Employment Initiative Communication presents an integrated framework to allow labour market and skill policies to play an active role to support this transition. The Communication ...
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EPA Credits States for Making Progress in Bay Cleanup; Says More Effort Needed to Get Back on Track for a Restored Bay
Today, EPA released its evaluations of the next round of actions six states and the District of Columbia have committed to undertake to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution to their local waters and the Chesapeake Bay. The reviews offer a path forward for getting all seven jurisdictions back on track for achieving the goals for a restored Bay. EPA’s review of 2014-2015 milestone ...
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UN Help Sought To Restore Detroit Water Service
Several groups concerned about Detroit residents who had their water shut off for nonpayment have taken the unusual step of appealing to the United Nations for support in an effort to force the restoration of service. The organizations sent a letter last week to the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner saying mass water shutoffs are leaving poor people and families at risk in the ...
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Mauritania, Senegal and Russia commit to better cooperation for migratory waterbird conservation
Park Directors from Mauritania, Senegal and Russia signed an agreement committing them to work together for the sustainable management of migratory waterbirds in critical wetlands within the three countries that are connected by the East-Atlantic Flyway. The agreement was the result of Wetlands International’s ‘From the Arctic to Africa’ initiative to protect waterbirds flying ...
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APWA Commends President Obama for Signing Water Resources Bill into Law
APWA Commends President Obama for Signing Water Resources Bill into Law WASHINGTON, D.C. American Public Works Association (APWA) President Edward A. Gottko, PWLF, today commended President Obama for signing into law the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). The new law funds needed projects for flood control, water navigation, storm damage reduction, beach nourishment, ecological ...
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EPA Inspection Reveals Violations of Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule for Sedalia, Mo., Renovation Company
EPA Region 7 conducted a Record Keeping Inspection of M&L Construction, a Sedalia, Mo., home remodeling company specializing in fire and water restoration, in August 2012, which revealed violations of the Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule. M&L Construction has agreed to pay a $9,548 civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated the RRP Rule. According to an administrative ...
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Focus on wetlands at the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk of the Americas
Wetlands should be better managed and restored for their ability to reduce disaster risk, says Wetlands International. To stimulate this, the post-2015 framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the Hyogo Framework for Action, to be adopted in 2015 in Japan), should pay increased attention to the key role of wetlands to reduce disaster risk and the need for integrated water resources and wetlands ...
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NCEC presents at the Chemical Safety Seminar in Mumbai
NCEC presented at the ‘Chemical Safety Seminar: Standards and Regulations’ in Mumbai, a workshop jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Institute of Quality, New Delhi; and Sustainability Support Services (Europe) AB, Sweden. The seminar was also supported by India’s National Institute of Disaster Management; the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS); ...
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Registration now open for AWWA`s inaugural Water Infrastructure Conference & Exposition
The American Water Works Association has announced that registration is now open for its first Water Infrastructure Conference & Exposition to take place in Atlanta Oct. 26 - 29, 2014. The conference and exposition will focus on water and wastewater infrastructure rehabilitation or replacement needs. It will also concentrate on factors that contribute to increasing demands on water and ...
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Cities try to restore wildness to urban rivers
The Buffalo Bayou is everything Houston city planners once despised: The small river that winds through glassy downtown hi-rises has gentle curves, a slow, meandering current and native grasses teeming with birds and insects. More than half a century ago, millions were spent to tame the flood-prone channel, turning it into a straight sluice to carry excess water to the Gulf of Mexico. The ...
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Norfolk Gets EPA Support for Green Techniques at Knitting Mill Creek
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it is providing more than $60,000 in technical assistance to Lafayette Wetlands Partnership, Friends of Norfolk’s Environment, and the City of Norfolk to explore green options for improving water quality in Knitting Mill Creek. Norfolk is one of 14 communities nationwide receiving a total of $860,000 in EPA support to expand the use ...
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EPA Put Out Smoldering Tire Fire at Penuelas, Puerto Rico Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the fire burning underground at the Integrated Waste Management Tire site in Penuelas, Puerto Rico is now fully extinguished and the potential health risks from the smoke have been eliminated. The EPA was able to put out the smoldering fire in a pile of discarded tires at the former tire processing facility by using an excavator to ...
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NACWA, Major U.S. Cities File Briefs in Chesapeake Bay Daily Load Appeal, Defend Lower Court Ruling & Holistic Watershed Approach
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) filed a brief April 21 with the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit strongly supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the Chesapeake Bay. The brief urges the Third Circuit to affirm a 2013 federal district court ruling upholding the TMDL and to support the holistic ...
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EPA announces $5 million in grants to restore S.F. Bay Water Quality and Habitats
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld today announced nearly $5 million in EPA grants to state and local agencies to restore water quality and wetlands throughout the San Francisco Bay watershed at a ceremony held at Breuner Marsh (Richmond, Calif.)—one of the sites to receive federal restoration grant funding. The ceremony was attended by ...
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EPA Holding Events across the Country to Celebrate Earth Week
This Earth Week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is empowering Americans across the country to act on climate change through simple actions to reduce carbon pollution in their daily lives. Across the country, EPA will be holding events to talk about common-sense action to reduce carbon pollution and promote a cleaner energy economy while ensuring that all Americans have the ...
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Spring-run Salmon Release Marks Progress in Restoring San Joaquin River
Today, for the first time in over 60 years, spring run Chinook salmon returned to the San Joaquin River when the San Joaquin River Restoration Program released 54,000 juvenile into California’s second largest river. The salmon release is part of a long-term effort to revive the River’s historic salmon fishery and create a healthier waterway for the communities of the San Joaquin River ...
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Business Support for Policy Action on Climate Change Grows 20-Fold as the “Climate Declaration” Hits First Anniversary
On the heels of a new UN report detailing damaging and accelerating impacts of climate change, top business executives from IKEA, JLL, Mars Inc., Sprint and VF Corp. met today (April 11, 2014) with members of the CongressionalBicameral Task Force on Climate Change to discuss climate-related impacts on their companies, actions they are taking to reduce their companies’ carbon footprints, and ...
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EPA Maintains Clean Water Act Authority To Write TMDL Plans for Impaired Waters
The Environmental Protection Agency has told an appellate court that the Clean Water Act has authorized it to set a total maximum daily load plan to restore impaired waters when states are unable to meet their obligations (Am. Farm Bureau Fed'n v. EPA, No. 13-4079, 3d Cir., reorder 4/2/13). In an April 2 filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the agency contended that the ...
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IPCC emphasises global warming risks and role ecosystem based adaptation
Wetlands International, CARE Nederland, Cordaid, the Netherlands Red Cross, and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, said today they were deeply concerned about the increasing risks climate change poses to people, reflected in the latest report by scientists on climate impacts. The agencies welcome the reference to the value of ecosystem-based adaptation. The new report, from Working Group ...
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EPA Rescues Streams, Wetlands from Clean Water Limbo
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed rules to restore Clean Water Act protections to streams and wetlands whose status had been thrown into question by court rulings and Bush administration actions. Following public comment, these rules will ensure that protections against pollution will apply to many waters, including streams that feed into ...
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