U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News

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Moss Point is among 6 municipalities in the state that have been awarded brownfield grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and community department personnel hope it will help identify and cleanup former industrial sites and properties across the city.

The high production and labor costs of accessing deep coal reserves, federal regulation, and competition from natural gas and western coal mining has crippled the Appalachian coal industry.

The California Air Resources Board 2013 research plan includes a project that will comprehensively characterize the Zero Emission Vehicle market, with the ultimate goal of increasing consumer purchases of ZEVs.

You may have heard that drinking 8-ounce glasses of water a day is good for your health.

Federal attention. That's what area residents who say they are dealing with the effects of growing up near nuclear contamination and radioactive waste are struggling to get .

Bob Fitrakis The real IRS scandal May 18, 2013 The following statement is by Robert Fitrakis, Chair, Federal Elections Commission, Green Shadow Cabinet: No one should be shocked that the Internal Revenue Service is once again using its power to harass grassroots patriot groups and local Tea Party organizations, as reported in the news recently.

President Barack Obama and his liberal supporters have made it very clear their philosophy of government is that it is their way or the highway.

Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to 'environmental genocide.' Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the ... (more)

After years of neglect, government leaders and land conservationists are working to develop a seven-mile trail along a polluted Atlanta creek that would link the city's BeltLine trail system to the Chattahoochee River.

Maryville-based Vanquish Worldwide, has landed a multimillion-dollar contract to store and manage equipment for the Environmental Protection Agency in the northwestern U.S. Vanquish will provide equipment management and warehouse services for emergency and terrorism-response vehicles and equipment in Region 10 of the EPA.

The PBF Energy refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., uses toxic chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid.

Are you uncertain about which CAD cells are which in New Bedford Harbor? The increased number of confined aquatic disposal cells has led to some confusion about which are where and what's in them.

Reason and cool heads have prevailed at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Gina McCarthy 's nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has been advanced to the Senate for a vote.

The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general has been asked to look into claims that the agency stymied efforts by conservative groups to obtain government records while giving favorable treatment to environmental groups.

The downtown landscape will soon be adding two new hotels, but elected officials and business leaders have differing opinions on what the new projects mean for the future of a convention center property.

Obama scandals dominating the news about how the administration failed our Libyan delegation at Benghazi, about how the IRS targeted conservative groups, and about administration spying on the Associated Press, now have another contender.

The EPA took testimony on the appeal during a pair of hearings in Bismarck on Wednesday.

Under President Obama, two women have been the director of the Environmental Protection Agency , Carol Browner, who served in the Clinton administration and was one of the " czars " Obama appointed; her acolyte Lisa Jackson, and up for the post is Gina McCarthy.

Congressman Rick Nolan has issued a sharply-worded letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator taking issue with the agency's comments regarding two controversial highway projects in the region.