U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News

WASHINGTON - Joined by dozens of fellow lawmakers, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., sent a letter Monday to the Environmental Protection Agency challenging a regulation that could hurt Lodge Manufacturing Co.

Wisconsin cities and counties are looking for ways to pay for water tests that could lead to beach closures after the federal government proposed eliminating the funding for the tests.

Environmental groups and a dozen states and cities said Monday they will delay planned legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying they will wait to see if the White House soon unveils a climate policy strategy.

Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at work, saying that Congress cannot tell the American people what its government is doing if it creates a "secret alternate communications network."

"It's not something many people think about, but it takes a huge amount of resources to get food to our plates," says Dana Gunders, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Snowmass Wildcat Fire Protection District is spending about $7,000 to $8,000 on soil sampling and an outside consultant to test the environmental impact of the floor drains under the department's truck-washing area.

June 17--Like other coal-fired power plants, the Cardinal plant along the Ohio River has huge scrubbers and other devices to trap toxic air pollutants and stay within federal clean-air limits.

A pair of local trash haulers report a spike in residential recycling thanks to a more user- and eco-friendly recycling program they introduced to Berkshire County several months ago.

Fresno is the economic capital of the San Joaquin Valley , the breadbasket of California and the U.S. What was once home to wild grasslands and the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, has transformed into valuable agricultural land where livestock and high-value crops such as nuts, stone fruit, and grapes have created some of the ... (more)

The service that Rochester-based ScrapSafe offers to power companies across the country is “environmentally friendly and economically sound,” says the company's VP of Marketing David Colby.

Dairy farmer Ron Koetsier's 1,200 cows produce roughly 90 tons of manure daily, and for the past three decades, he has tried unsuccessfully to turn the stinky dung into energy to power his 450-acre farm in Visalia, Calif.

Resource Advisory Committee members are reflected in a pond of acidic water and runoff as they tour the Formosa Mine near Riddle on May 18, 2004.

Hopes in the west for better relations tempered by knowledge that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is still country's most powerful figure Supporters of Iran's newly-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, take part in street festivities following the announcement of his victory.

An investigation has found several SA suburbs had storage dumps for radioactive waste, but the EPA has refused to say where.

The showers, toilets, washing machines, garden hoses and other thirsty devices can spray your water bill with charges.

Americans throw away more than a third of what they buy. That's almost $400 a year per person, or more than an average month's worth of groceries.

Nine of the 11 members of Indiana's congressional delegation have sent a letter to President Obama asking him to kill a proposed regulation on coal-fired power plants.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending O'Malley spoke twice with Bob Perciasepe, acting EPA administrator, since late May to support Carnival's request for what the governor's press secretary ... (more)

The Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas are suing Exxon Mobil over the March 29 rupture of the company's Pegasus pipeline which spilled thousands of barrels of crude tar sands oil over the town of Mayflower, Ark.

As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern has centered on fears that underground water supplies could be contaminated with the toxic chemicals used in the well-stimulation technique that cracks rock formations and releases trapped oil and gas.