air toxics News
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Monday: EPA to host community air toxics
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Jefferson County Department of Health will host a community forum on air toxics for North Birmingham, Collegeville, Harriman Park, and Fairmont communities. Topics to be discussed include: School air toxics monitoring results, Birmingham pilot air toxics initiative, and community resources. WHO: EPA and the Jefferson County Department ...
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TODAY: EPA Administrator Media Call to Release Findings on Urban Air Toxics
Today, at 11 a.m. EDT, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will hold a media conference call to discuss the second and final Integrated Urban Air Toxics (IUAT) Report to Congress. The report highlights the progress and remaining challenges since the release of the IUAT Strategy in 1999 in working with state, local and tribal agencies to help communities ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near Cabell County Technology Center
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mid-Atlantic made available today its final report on monitoring for air toxics near Cabell County Career Technology Center in Huntington, W.Va. The report, posted on EPA’s website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html, concludes that EPA found no concern short- or long-term health risks from air toxics, specifically nickel, outside the ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near the Riverside Elementary School in Reading, PA.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made available today its final report on monitoring for air toxics near the Riverside Elementary School in Reading, Pa. The report, posted on the agency’s website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html, concludes that EPA found no concern for short- or long-term health risks from air toxics, specifically hexavalent chromium, outside the school. ...
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EPA and JCDH to host a public meeting on North Birmingham, AL Air Quality
On Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) will conduct a public meeting to discuss air quality issues in the North Birmingham area. The meeting will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. CST with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. at the Hudson K-8 School. The school is located at 3300 F.L. Shuttlesworth Drive in Birmingham, ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near the Kreutz Creek Valley Elementary School in Hallam, PA.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made available today its final report on monitoring for air toxics near the Kreutz Creek Valley Elementary School in Hallum, Pa. The report, posted on the agency’s website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html , concludes that EPA found no concern for short- or long-term health risks from air toxics, specifically hexavalent chromium, outside ...
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EPA proposes to reduce air toxics from petroleum refineries by 2,250 tons per year
EPA is seeking comment on additional options for reducing emissions of air toxic pollutants from petroleum refineries based on information received since a 2007 proposal. Included in this proposal are options for controlling air toxics emissions from storage tanks located at petroleum refineries and revisions to the maximum achievable control technology work practice standards for cooling ...
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EPA awards over $200,000 to the City of El Paso to study air pollution
(Dallas, Texas – October 29, 2007) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded $242,394 to the City of El Paso to study hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). HAPs, also known as air toxics, are pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer and other serious health effects. Officials will monitor HAPs in multiple residential areas and other locations, and characterize the level ...
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Air toxics near toledo elementary school are below levels of concern
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 today released the final report on analysis of air toxics monitoring data near Toledo Elementary School in Toledo, Oregon. The report is posted at: http://www.epa.gov/schoolair. EPA and Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will present the results and answer questions about the air monitoring report at DEQ’s Georgia-Pacific ...
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Air toxics near sunnyside elementary in durango (Colo.) school district are below levels of concern
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a final report on air toxics monitoring at Sunnyside Elementary School, part of the Durango (Colo.) School District and located within the boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. In 2009, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s Air Quality program collected monitoring data at Sunnyside School as part of EPA’s School Air ...
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EPA releases third national assessment of toxic air pollutants
EPA has released the latest version of a state-of-the-science tool that estimates health risks from breathing air toxics in the United States. The National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA), based on 2002 air emissions data, helps federal, state, local and tribal governments identify areas and specific pollutants for further evaluation to better understand risks they may pose. Air toxics are of ...
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EPA releases third national assessment of toxic air pollutants
EPA has released the latest version of a state-of-the-science tool that estimates health risks from breathing air toxics in the United States. The National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA), based on 2002 air emissions data, helps federal, state, local and tribal governments identify areas and specific pollutants for further evaluation to better understand risks they may pose. Air toxics are of ...
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Air toxics near lapwai high school below levels of concern
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the final report on analysis of air toxics monitoring data near Lapwai High School in Lapwai, Idaho. EPA found that concentrations of air toxics measured near the school are below the levels of concern associated with health problems from either short- or long-term exposures. The report is posted at: http://www.epa.gov/schoolair. ...
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EPA seeks small business input on air toxics rule for brick production
WASHINGTON --The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants recommendations from small businesses on the best way to regulate air toxics from the production of bricks and structural clay products such as roof tiles. EPA is inviting small businesses to nominate representatives to participate in a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel that will provide input into the development of the ...
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EPA releases final report on air toxics near the Central Virginia Training Center
he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made available today its final report on monitoring for air toxics near the Central Virginia Training Center in Madison Heights, Va. The report, posted on the agency’s website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html, concludes that EPA found no concern for short- or long-term health risks from air toxics, specifically microscopic airborne ...
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Monitoring finds air toxics near Concord Elementary School below levels of concern (WA)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 today released the final report on analysis of air toxics monitoring data near Concord Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. The report is posted at: http://www.epa.gov/schoolair. EPA found that concentrations of air toxics measured near the school are below the levels of concern associated with health problems from either short- or ...
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EPA Seeks Additional Toxic Emissions Reductions
To provide incentives for reduced air toxic emissions, EPA is proposing to amend what are known as the 'General Provisions' to its air toxics standards. The proposed amendment would encourage industrial facilities to reduce air toxics emissions so they are no longer considered a 'major source' of air pollution. Major sources have the potential to emit more than 10 tons per year of a single ...
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Arkansas Reduces Air Toxics with EPA Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $501,837 to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to administer the state’s pollution prevention and control program. The program includes ambient monitoring, planning, permitting and compliance activities. ADEQ will also monitor for major pollutants, identifying major and minor sources of air pollution that may be ...
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New Star Begins Venture with Nutech LLC
New Star Environmental entered in a joint venture with Nutech LLC, based in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. New Star will lead the marketing and sales efforts for sampling systems used by contract laboratories and government laboratories for analyzing specific air toxic compounds identified by EPA, TO-14 and TO-15 compounds. These EPA methods have been adopted by many countries around the world ...
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EPA Report Shows Progress in Reducing Urban Air Toxics Across the United States
Today (Aug 21, 2014), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics. “This report gives everyone fighting for clean air a lot to be proud of because for more than 40 years ...
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