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EPA Releases Online Mapping Tool to Help Protect Drinking Water Sources
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released DWMAPS – the Drinking Water Mapping Application to Protect Source Waters. This robust, online mapping tool provides the public, water system operators, state programs, and federal agencies with critical information to help them safeguard the sources of America’s drinking water. DWMAPS allows users to learn about their watershed ...
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EPA Awards over $144,000 to New Mexico to Reduce Water Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded $144,554 to the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department to operate and implement its Underground Injection Control (UIC) program. The UIC program helps protect underground sources of drinking water from contamination by regulating the construction and operation of injection wells. The grant funds will also be used to ...
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Refinery water pollution costs ConocoPhillips US$1.2m
ConocoPhillips, an international energy company headquartered in Houston, has agreed to pay a $1.2 million civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at a petroleum refinery it operates in the city of Borger, located in the Texas panhandle. The U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced that their complaint, filed simultaneously with today's ...
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Nitrate and the U.S. EPA
The U.S. EPA initiated the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1948 to regulate contaminants in surface waters - which later expanded in 1972 to form the Clean Water Act (CWA). Nitrate is one of the primary contaminants regulated by the U.S. EPA under the CWA as well as the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The maximum contaminant level set by the EPA for human consumption is 10.0 ppm ...
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West Virginia Chemical Spill Spotlights Weak Safeguards for Nation’s Water Systems
The massive Elk River contamination in West Virginia last month highlighted a serious public health threat that requires systematic new safeguards in order to prevent similar accidents around the country, Erik Olson, senior strategic director for health & food at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told a congressional subcommittee today. The January incident, which tainted the drinking ...
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U.S., West Virginia sue town of Fort Gay for violations of clean water and safe drinking water acts
The Justice Department and the West Virginia Departments of Environmental Protection, and Health and Human Resources have sued the town of Fort Gay, W. Va. to stop discharges of untreated sewage from pipes, manholes, and pumping stations into Mill Creek. The complaint, filed on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state agencies alleges the discharges pose a threat to human ...
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AWWA applauds USDA funding to control nutrients in source water
American Water Works Association expressed strong support for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to commit an additional $5 million to reduce nutrient pollution in the western Lake Erie Basin. “Controlling nutrient pollution in water bodies is the first and most effective way to reduce algae blooms that can produce cyanotoxins,” said AWWA Chief Executive Officer ...
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Jackson signs proposed rule amending human subjects protections rule
On January 18, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson signed a proposed rule that would revise EPA's February 6, 2006, final rule concerning protections for subjects in human research. According to EPA, the proposed amendments would broaden the applicability of the rules to cover human testing with pesticides submitted to EPA under any regulatory statute it ...
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Jackson Signs Proposed Rule Amending Human Subjects Protections Rule
On January 18, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson signed a proposed rule that would revise EPA's February 6, 2006, final rule concerning protections for subjects in human research. According to EPA, the proposed amendments would broaden the applicability of the rules to cover human testing with pesticides submitted to EPA under any regulatory statute it ...
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California’s Prop 65 and Lead Acetate Public Health Concerns
In 1986, California voters approved an initiative to address increasing concerns about exposure to toxic chemicals. That initiative, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is better known by its original name of Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires businesses to notify Californians about significant amounts of chemicals in the products they purchase, in their homes or ...
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New silica method could reduce the cost of purifying drinking water
Tiny particles of coated silica could be used to purify drinking water by removing harmful pollutants and pathogens. This simple and relatively cheap technology is capable of removing contaminants from water making it safe to drink and helping ensure that drinking water meets the standards of the European Drinking Water Directive. Provision of portable water is becoming a major socio-economic ...
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Settlement Reached With Mobile Home Park Owners over Drinking Water and Waste Water Violations
Frank Perano and a series of his corporations and related entities own, operate, and/or manage mobile home parks in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia. After a joint multi-year investigation, EPA and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) found evidence of more than 4,300 Clean Water Act violations at 15 mobile home parks in Pennsylvania where the defendants treat waste ...
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EPA administrator Jackson Marks one-year anniversary of recovery act in Columbus, Ohio
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland and Ohio officials today at a press conference marking the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). EPA’s regional and assistant administrators visited communities across the nation this week to highlight how the recovery act has created jobs and made a ...
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Town of Newburgh, New York Providing Clean Drinking Water to Area Residents Under Agreement with EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Town of Newburgh, New York has completed the construction of a drinking water treatment plant that will deliver a reliable and clean source of drinking water to local residents under the terms of a 2008 legal agreement between the town and the EPA. The agreement was reached after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint on ...
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Polluting Philly drinking water costs Merck $20m
Merck, the global pharmaceutical research company, has agreed to resolve violations of federal and state water pollution control regulations arising from spills of pollutants at its pharmaceutical plant outside of Philadelphia. The spills entered a waterway that supplies 40 percent of Philadelphia's drinking water. In one of the most comprehensive remediation settlement agreements for the ...
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Loopholes Enjoyed by Oil and Gas Producers Could Close
WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2007 (ENS) - The U.S. oil and gas production industry has enjoyed loopholes in federal laws that allow it to pollute the land, air and water, and release toxic substances into the environment that are making people sick, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC. The report profiles families who report suffering from rashes, swelling, ...
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