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Want to save water for future generations and lower your utility bills? That’s just what the Forsyth County Water and Sewer Department is working with the Environmental Protection Agency to help consumers do. The county is participating in the EPA’s WaterSense program, which aims to reduce indoor and outdoor water use through efficient products and saving practices. Customers are encouraged to ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving the University of Missouri $112,500 to increase its anti-pollution efforts. The grant was announced Monday by the EPA's regional office in Kansas City, Kan. The university will match the grant, providing a total of $225,270. The money will go toward creating a minor degree aimed at reducing pollution. It will also be used to ...
By Brad Fuqua, The Western News During an initial step in the process to place legal or administrative restrictions on the former export plant site, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approached the City of Libby/Lincoln County Health Board on the subject of implementing institutional controls.
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide - a move that would clean up the air for...
EPA report shows small gains in '08, casts doubts on meeting 2016 goals Americans bought slightly more efficient cars and trucks in 2008 compared with a year earlier, and are expected to do so again this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.
Sunoco Inc. has agreed to pay a $32,250 civil fine to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for deficiencies found at its Toledo Refinery during inspections in April, 2008. EPA officials said the facility had four violations during the inspection, including failing to correct deficiencies in several pieces of equipment before further use and failing to address several recommendations in the ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 23 issued a court-ordered final rule that, for the first time, sets national monitoring requirements and numeric limits on construction-site stormwater runoff.
Lawyers for several environmental groups notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday of its intent to file suit against the agency for failing to protect state water from two forms of nutrient pollution - phosphorus and nitrogen.
DENVER — An environmental group and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are seeking to se...
WASHINGTON (November 23, 2009) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a final rule that will help protect America’s waterways from pollution from construction sites. This rule was issued in response to a 2004 lawsuit against the EPA filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2006, a U.S. Federal District Court in Central California ordered the EPA to issue a final rule ...
Allegheny County will seek up to $1 million from the Environmental Protection Agency for remediation of any environmental problems at the Newbury development site in South Fayette.