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EPA awards $100,000 to ensure safe drinking water for citizens of Arkansas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $100,000 to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for water quality management planning. The funds will be used to conduct analysis of chemical samples of rivers, streams and lakes in Ark. The Clean Water Act allows EPA to issue states funding for regional water quality management planning projects. Our nation's waters are ...
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Meeting highlights US-Mexico efforts to ‘green’ border
Officials from the United States and Mexico will meet to discuss environmental issues along the border, recognize environmental accomplishments to date, and commemorate the 25th anniversary of the La Paz Agreement on Sept. 3-5 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The fifth Border 2012 National Coordinators Meeting will be hosted by Mexico’s Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) in ...
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NACWA Applauds U.S. House for Proposed Increase to Clean Water State Revolving Fund
On March 16, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chair Grace Napolitano (D-CA), and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act of 2021. This legislation will reauthorize the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) for the ...
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Granite Environmental LLC has turbidity curtains and silt barriers for water pollution prevention and dredging jobs in stock, ready to ship
Sebastian, FL, May 3, 2010 – Granite Environmental, LLC, located on the East Coast of Florida, has in stock and ready to ship turbidity curtains and silt barriers. Due to the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, American manufacturers for oil spill and water pollution control products have had to fulfill the need to manufacture and provide oil booms to first responders. Production ...
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Culpeper, Va. settles alleged environmental violations at water treatment facility
The town of Culpeper, Va. will pay a $27,420 penalty and make more than $100,000 in upgrades at its water treatment facility to settle alleged environmental violations at the town’s water treatment facilities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. According to a consent agreement with EPA, the town did not immediately notify the EPA’s National Response Center as ...
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Bayer CropScience to Enhance Safeguards at Chemical Facilities in Four States to Settle Violations at W. Va. Plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a $5.6 million settlement with Bayer CropScience LP to resolve violations of federal chemical accident prevention laws at its facility in Institute, W.Va. where an explosion killed two people in 2008. Under the settlement, Bayer CropScience committed to spending approximately $452,000 on a series of ...
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Bayer Cropscience to enhance safeguards at chemical facilities in four states to settle violations at A West Virginia Plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced a $5.6 million settlement with Bayer CropScience LP to resolve violations of federal chemical accident prevention laws at its facility in Institute, West Virginia, where an explosion killed two people in 2008. Under the settlement, Bayer CropScience committed to spending $4.23 million to improve ...
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Dan Utech is EPA’s Incoming Chief of Staff
Dan Utech, Incoming Chief of Staff for EPA, announced to EPA on January 21, 2021, that until Michael Regan, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, is confirmed as EPA Administrator, Jane Nishida will serve as Acting Administrator. According to Utech, EPA will be guided by science as it moves to achieve these goals and address other threats to public health and the ...
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Dudley, Mass. Packaging Plant to Pay Nearly $485K Penalty for Environmental Violations
A packaging company has agreed to pay $484,900 in penalties to settle EPA claims that it violated numerous federal and state environmental regulations at its liquid and aerosol packaging facility in Dudley, Mass. According to EPA’s complaint, filed in Sept. 2012, Shield Packaging Company, Inc. violated rules regarding hazardous waste management, chemical accident prevention, hazardous ...
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Massachusetts company faces fines for oil pollution prevention violations
According to a complaint filed recently by EPA’s New England office, Swissport Fueling, Inc. of Dulles, Va. and BOSFuel Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas did not properly execute its emergency spill response plan at the Logan facility, in violation of the oil pollution prevention regulations under the federal Clean Water Act The Logan facility, which has been operated by BOSFuel since 1999, has ...
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Massachusetts company faces fines for oil pollution prevention violations
According to a complaint filed recently by EPA’s New England office, Swissport Fueling, Inc. of Dulles, Va. and BOSFuel Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas did not properly execute its emergency spill response plan at the Logan facility, in violation of the oil pollution prevention regulations under the federal Clean Water Act The Logan facility, which has been operated by BOSFuel since 1999, has ...
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HPI Products, Inc., related company and owner to pay $150,000 in civil penalties for state, federal environmental violations (MO)
HPI Products, Inc., of St. Joseph, Mo., along with an affiliated property holding corporation and the owner of both companies, have agreed to pay a total of $150,000 in civil penalties, in addition to covering undetermined cleanup costs at six of their chemical processing and manufacturing facilities, to settle a series of alleged violations of state and federal environmental laws. HPI Products, ...
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