air emissions reduction News
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Griffin Pipe Products Agrees to Resolve Issues with Lead Emissions, Air and Water Violations at Council Bluffs, Iowa
EPA Region 7 has reached an agreement with Griffin Pipe Products, LLC, to settle violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA) at its Council Bluffs, Iowa, facility that will require Griffin Pipe to lower lead emissions and pay a civil penalty of $950,000. Although Griffin Pipe’s Council Bluffs location has ceased production for business reasons, if the facility reopens ...
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EPA issues final air quality permits to Shell for Arctic oil and gas exploration
Today, EPA Region 10 issued final air quality permits to Shell for oil and gas exploration drilling in the Alaska Arctic. The permits will allow Shell to operate the Discoverer drillship and a support fleet of icebreakers, oil spill response vessels, and supply ships for up to 120 days each year in the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea Outer Continental Shelf starting in 2012. Shell’s ...
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EPA awards over $200,000 to the city of Albuquerque (NM)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $203,201 to the City of Albuquerque. The funds will be used to continue the city’s air pollution abatement and prevention program. Expected accomplishments include attainment and maintenance of national ambient air quality standards and reduction of air toxics emissions by planning and implementing air quality compliance, enforcement, ...
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Evaluating the impact of air quality measures is essential
Recent research has investigated the effectiveness of air quality management at the regional level in Italy and found that some of the most commonly adopted measures do not always produce the highest emissions reductions. Italian air quality legislation was reformed in 1999 in order to comply with the 1996 European Air Quality Framework Directive1. At the time, the 20 Italian administrative ...
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Bring Environmental Awareness into the Classroom with A&WMA’s Classroom Environmental Materials
Pittsburgh, PA (April 19, 2006) – Earth Day is Saturday, April 22, 2006, and A&WMA’s materials can help you provide environmental learning activities in K-12 classrooms. A&WMA’s Environmental Education Resource Center features the award-winning Environmental Education Resource Guide (EERG), free downloadable lesson plans, Understanding Air Quality outreach products, information booklets, fact ...
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