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West Virginia Residents in Court to Stop Mountaintop Removal
HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - Boone County residents are asking a federal judge to stop a coal company from cutting off the top of a nearby mountain to get at the coal within and dumping the tons of waste rock and dirt into the stream in the valley below. The residents say the proposed valley fill would destroy their community, disrupt their lives and devalue and damage their ...
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EPA Welcomes New “Top Cop” for Criminal Enforcement Program in New England
Tyler Amon, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Criminal Enforcement, has been selected as the new Special Agent-in-Charge of its Area Office in Boston. He will supervise all environmental crimes investigations throughout EPA’s Region 1 jurisdiction, encompassing Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Amon ...
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Washington State Continues Permits for Aquatic Pesticides
OLYMPIA, Washington (ENS) - The Washington state Department of Ecology will continue using permits to control the use of aquatic pesticides in and around state waters. Use of the permits came into question when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, ruled in November 2006 that a pesticide applied according to the federal label is not a pollutant under the federal Clean Water Act and is ...
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PERKINELMER TO SPONSOR WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY
Partners with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to Help Protect and Safeguard Water Quality Globally BEIJING – PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in application-focused measurement and analysis solutions, today announced its partnership with the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) and the International Water Association’s (IWA) ...
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EPA approves Kansas` list of impaired waters (KS)
EPA has approved Kansas’ 2010 list of impaired waters, which removes 264 waters from the previous impaired waters list and adds 468 waters. This brings the total number of impaired waters in the state to 1,387. A water body is placed on the impaired waters list when monitoring finds that pollutant levels prevent the lake, river, or stream from attaining its beneficial uses. Beneficial uses ...
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Dominion settles clean water act violations at equestrian estates
Dominion will pay a $51,000 penalty for allegedly allowing storm water runoff from Equestrian Estates North in Chesapeake Va., to run off into a tributary of the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River. After an inspection by EPA on June 14, 2010, and another inspection by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation on December 14, 2010, EPA cited Dominion for failing to: Stabilize ...
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North Idaho developers fined nearly $45,000 for storm water violations
The Environmental Protection Agency has settled with seven firms and individuals accused of violating the Clean Water Act at construction sites in northern Idaho. EPA found the violations during routine inspections last fall in the Sandpoint area. The violations resulted in fines ranging from $8,000 - $14,000. Inspectors observed violations at all of the sites, including failure to apply for ...
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EPA to approve California’s newest list of impaired waterways
More than 40,000 miles of California’s rivers and streams are currently threatened by pollution, according to a list of impaired waterways submitted by the state to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Monitoring of rivers, lakes and coastal waters in California continue to show harmful pollutant levels, based on updates to the list from three of the state’s nine regional Water ...
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Air, Water, Hazwaste Violations Cost Equistar $125 Million
HOUSTON, Texas, July 25, 2007 (ENS) - Equistar Chemicals of Houston, Texas has agreed to settle federal environmental violations by spending more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup. The company must address a host of air, water and hazardous waste violations at seven of its petrochemical plants in Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Louisiana. The Justice Department and the Environmental ...
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Massey Energy to pay largest civil penalty ever for water permit violations
Massey Energy Company, Inc. has agreed to pay a $20 million civil penalty in a corporate-wide settlement to resolve Clean Water Act violations at coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced. This is the largest civil penalty in EPA’s history levied against a company for wastewater discharge permit violations. 'This is a ...
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EPA Approves In-Situ Inc. Rugged Dissolved Oxygen (RDO) Methods
In-Situ® Inc., a world leader in water monitoring technology, received EPA approval for their RDO® methods, which are the only optical or luminescence-based DO methods to pass the rigorous ATP approval process for measuring Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Carbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand (CBOD), and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) under the Clean Water Act. ...
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With three new reference materials, NIST gets the dirt on soil
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new certified reference materials for soil. Intended for use as controls in testing laboratories, the new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs)—gathered from the San Joaquin Valley in California and from sites near Butte and Helena in Montana—will aid in determining soil quality, detecting soil contamination, and monitoring ...
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