EPA Seeks Input on Proposed Amendments to the New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units

EPA Seeks Input on Proposed Amendments to the New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units

August 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (August 15, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a potential Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This Panel will focus on the agency’s development of a rule that proposes to revise the new source […]

Under EPA agreement, Marine Corps Base Hawaii to make improvements after stormwater violations

Under EPA agreement, Marine Corps Base Hawaii to make improvements after stormwater violations

August 11, 2022 HONOLULU – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Federal Facility Compliance Agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps to make improvements related to stormwater discharges at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) located on the Mokapu Peninsula of Kaneohe, Oahu. “This Agreement marks a major milestone in protecting Hawaii’s water […]

EPA meets with partners in Aurora to usher in next generation of clean, zero- and low-emission school buses in Colorado

EPA meets with partners in Aurora to usher in next generation of clean, zero- and low-emission school buses in Colorado

EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe joined by Governor Jared Polis, Aurora Public Schools Chief of Staff Mark Seglem and other partners to highlight $500 million in available funding for clean school buses August 10, 2022 Aurora, Colo. – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe and EPA Regional Administrator KC Becker met with […]

EPA Directs Carson City Public Works to Improve Pretreatment Program and Protect Carson River

EPA Directs Carson City Public Works to Improve Pretreatment Program and Protect Carson River

August 10, 2022 SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Carson City Public Works (Carson City) for violating provisions of the Clean Water Act pretreatment program at its wastewater treatment plant in Carson City, Nevada. Carson City’s pretreatment program, which is federally mandated and EPA-approved, serves to protect the […]

EPA Accepting Clean School Bus Rebate Applications until August 19, 2022

EPA Accepting Clean School Bus Rebate Applications until August 19, 2022

August 9, 2022 WASHINGTON (August 9, 2022) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reminding school districts and eligible school bus operators and contractors of the August 19, 2022 deadline to apply for funding to begin replacing the nation’s fleet of school buses with clean and zero-emission buses. $500 million is available to […]

Media Advisory: EPA to highlight clean school bus grant funding to protect children’s health

Media Advisory: EPA to highlight clean school bus grant funding to protect children’s health

August 8, 2022 Aurora, Colo. – On Wednesday, August 10, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe will be joined by Governor Polis and other partners to highlight available funding through the EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The event will take place at Aurora Public Schools’ Edna & John W. […]

EPA fine leads to Hawaii DLNR acting on illegal cesspools

EPA fine leads to Hawaii DLNR acting on illegal cesspools

Largest land manager in Hawaii will evaluate its 1.3 million acres of property August 8, 2022 HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken an enforcement action on Kauai to close an illegal large capacity cesspool (LCC) and collect $105,543 in fines from the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). As […]

EPA инициирует предоставление сообществам новой информации о рисках, связанных с использованием этиленоксида

EPA инициирует предоставление сообществам новой информации о рисках, связанных с использованием этиленоксида

August 3, 2022 ВАШИНГТОН (3 августа  2022 года) – Агентство по охране окружающей среды США (EPA) объявило о своих планах по привлечению и предоставлению сообществам, штатам, племенам, территориям и заинтересованным сторонам актуальной информации о рисках, связанных с выбросами в атмосферу этиленоксида промышленными стерилизаторами, а также об усилиях по устранению подобных рисков. EPA предоставило новую информацию об […]