state environmental law News
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Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. Wins Application Maintenance and Support Contract with the State of Florida`s Department of Environmental Protection
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) is pleased to announce that the Florida Department of Environment Protection (DEP) has extended a contract with ICS for application support and maintenance outsourcing for fiscal year 2012-2013. The application maintenance and support contract originally awarded to ICS through the Office of Technology Information Services (OTIS) in 2010 provided a new ...
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Industrial Launderer will pay $525,000 for clean water act violations
AmeriPride Service, Inc., an industrial launderer with a facility in Hartford, Connecticut, will pay a $525,000 penalty under the terms of a settlement for alleged violations of federal and state clean water laws and a government-issued permit. The settlement was announced jointly by Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney and Ira Leighton, Acting Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental ...
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Calculating carbon emissions
Refrigerant Gas & Fugitive Emissions Compliance Includes CO2 Calculations If you manage a facility using a refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC) system or heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC-R) system, it’s time to comply with federal and state environmental laws regarding carbon emissions. To help reduce greenhouse gases, the law requires calculating carbon emissions. This ...
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Sinclair Tulsa Refining Company, Two Managers Plead Guilty to Felony Pollution Charges
$5 Million Criminal Penalty, Plus Half Million Community Service Payment (Washington, D.C.) Sinclair Tulsa Refining Company has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of deliberately manipulating wastewater discharges at its Tulsa Refinery in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). In addition, two company managers, Harmon Connell and John Kapura, have each pleaded guilty to one felony count of ...
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Parting the Chemical Curtain with GreenWERCS By Michelle Mauthe Harvey
10/27/2009 In May, with very little fanfare, Walmart introduced an extraordinary new tool known as GreenWERCS.GreenWERCS assesses the composition of chemical intensive products -- which is just about any non-food item on a Walmart shelf that you can pour, squeeze, dab or otherwise apply to your body or use in or around your home or car. GreenWERCS analyzes the composition of individual products ...
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Disaster plan developed in case fire reaches nuclear waste
Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by no more than 1,200 feet. Government officials have quietly adopted an emergency plan in case the smoldering embers ever reach the waste, a potentially "catastrophic event" that could send up a plume of radioactive smoke over a ...
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McWane Inc. agrees to resolve environmental violations at manufacturing facilities in 14 states (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the states of Alabama and Iowa announced that McWane Inc., a national cast iron pipe manufacturer headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve more than 400 violations of federal and state environmental laws. The settlement, filed in federal court today, covers 28 of McWane’s ...
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California criticizes planned transmission line through park
Local electricity generation would be better for California's environment than San Diego Gas and Electric's proposed Sunrise Powerlink transmission line, state and federal agencies said today in a draft environmental impact report. It is the first official government analysis of the harm that could result from the Powerlink and a review of possible alternatives. Release of the 7,000 page draft ...
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U.S. Settles with ExxonMobil over Violations Stemming from 2013 Oil Spill in Mayflower, Arkansas
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and Mobil Pipe Line Company (ExxonMobil) have agreed to pay civil penalties, fund an environmental project and implement corrective measures to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and state environmental laws stemming from a 2013 crude oil spill from the ...
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EPA awards city of goliad $194,000 to aid wastewater management
The City of Goliad, Texas, can now be sure that its wastewater is treated in compliance with federal and state laws. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $194,000 to Goliad to upgrade and elevate the city’s primary sewer line to provide necessary infrastructure funding that enhances the safety of the wastewater treatment plant. Wastewater management encompasses a broad range of ...
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EPA reports a successful year enforcing environmental law in the state of New Jersey (NJ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today posted information illustrating its very successful past year in enforcing environmental law. In the past federal fiscal year, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Agency took actions that reduced pollution and ensured that environmental laws are being followed. In the past fiscal year, EPA took enforcement and compliance ...
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Federal and State Governments Reach Legal Agreement with Tonawanda Coke to Reduce Pollution
Under a $12 million settlement with the United States and the state of New York, Tonawanda Coke Corporation will pay $2.75 million in civil penalties, spend approximately $7.9 million to reduce air pollution and enhance air and water quality, and spend an additional $1.3 million for environmental projects in the area of Tonawanda, New York. The agreement was announced jointly by U.S. ...
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Hawaii Enables Superferry Sailings During Environmental Review
HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 5, 2007 (ENS) - Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle today signed a bill allowing the Hawaii Superferry to resume service while the state conducts an environmental impact statement, EIS, over the objections of many residents of Maui and Kauai. Lingle also imposed a set of 40 operating conditions on the Superferry aimed at protecting the environment. The state and Hawaii ...
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Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty To Federal Environmental Crimes And Civil Violations And Will Pay More Than $81 Million
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pleaded guilty today in cases filed by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the United States. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company also pleaded guilty today in Kansas City, Mo., to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide ...
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Safetec Names Kim Peterson Director of Environmental, Health and Safety
Safetec Compliance Systems, a leading provider of global chemical risk and compliance technology solutions, has named Kim Peterson as its Director of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS). As an experienced, hands-on EHS professional, Ms. Peterson brings to Safetec greater insight into the challenges EHS Managers face in managing day-to-day tasks, including recordkeeping and reporting, handling ...
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Florida asks citizens to report environmental crime
Public outreach and education will help increase awareness of environmental crimes, and when people are aware of such crimes, they will report them to law enforcement authorities, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, DEP. The state agency intends to encourage this type of reporting by participating this week in the 7th annual National Environmental Crimes Prevention ...
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Environmental Lawyers Warn: Oil and Water Don`t Mix
Today's Fisheries Act announcements are another give-away to big oil and mining companies coated in a thin veneer of conservation say environmental lawyers at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. Upcoming rollbacks to fisheries legislation announced today would exempt many major developments from fisheries review. Elements of fish habitat not specifically listed in legislation would be ...
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Conservation group files lawsuit against Department of Energy over southwest energy corridor
On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Environmental Law Center today filed suit in federal court in the central district of California to challenge the Department of Energy's October 2007 designation of the Southwest National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor - a sweeping, 45-million-acre area that includes seven southern California and three Arizona counties - for ...
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EPA 2006 Enforcement Highlights for Wisconsin
CHICAGO (Nov. 16, 2006) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today announced that its enforcement actions in Wisconsin in 2006 have caused regulated entities to pay more than $6 million to correct past environmental violations and help prevent future ones. In the past fiscal year, EPA resolved 21 actions against regulated entities in Wisconsin; assessed a total of $353,522 in ...
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EPA 2006 Enforcement Highlights for Ohio
CHICAGO (Nov. 16, 2006) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today announced that its enforcement actions in Ohio in 2006 have caused regulated entities to pay more than $107 million to correct past environmental violations and help prevent future ones. In the past fiscal year, EPA resolved 80 actions against regulated entities in Ohio and assessed a total of $2,717,709 in civil ...
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