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Featured Story graphicEleven Cape Communities Limit Boat Pollution with "No Discharge" Designation in Cape Cod Bay - Largest single protected area in the Northeast

July 14, 2008

 

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Clean Up Work Underway at Smithfield, R.I. Site

July 21, 2008

News Story GraphicEPA has been working closely with the Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management (RI DEM) and local officials during the removal of potentially hazardous materials at the Providence Barrel Site in Smithfield, R.I.

Scituate, R.I. School Selected by EPA for Nearly $15,000 Environmental Education Grant

July 187, 2008

News Story GraphicSchools in Scituate, R.I. were recently awarded a $14,895 environmental education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Scituate School Department, which received the grant, will use the funds to train teachers and students in 11th and 12th grade in the use of state-of-the-art mapping technologies.

EPA Administrator Celebrates Hull's Energy Initiatives

July 17, 2008

News Story GraphicThe Boston Harbor community of Hull, Mass. was visited today by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson as the Town joined EPA’s New England Community Energy Challenge.

Large Boston Real Estate Corporation Charged With Failing to Warn Tenants About Lead Paint in Mass. and Conn.

July 15, 2008

News Story GraphicA large Massachusetts-based real estate corporation and nearly two dozen associated entities may be subject to a multi-million dollar penalty for repeatedly violating federal lead paint disclosure laws at properties they own or rent in eleven communities in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

U.S. EPA, University of Vermont’s Gund Institute Team Up to Develop New Ways to Understand Ecosystem Services

July 8, 2008

News Story GraphicA new partnership between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont will help decision makers more accurately weigh the costs and benefits of actions that alter ecosystem services -- the goods and services of nature such as clean air and water, erosion and flood control, soil enrichment, and food and fiber.

MA South Hadley Settles Clean Water Act Violations
RI Superfund Lien Filed on Two Cumberland Rhode Island Properties
MA Massachusetts Company Agrees to Pay $28,110 for PCB Violations
CT Electrical Transformers to be Removed from Montville, Conn. Superfund Site
MA Massachusetts Company Agrees to Pay $28,110 for PCB Violations
CT Electrical Transformers to be Removed from Montville, Conn. Superfund Site
MA EPA Extends Public Comment Period for Proposed Clean Up Plan for Blackburn and Union Privileges Superfund Site in Walpole, Mass. - Comment Period Extended until August 18, 2008
MA Settlement Ensures Better Sewage Treatment for Massachusetts Bay and Other Boston-area Waters
MA 5 Coastal Mass. Towns Stem Boat Pollution as Salem Harbor Gains "No Discharge" Designation
NH Clean Up Work Underway at Kingston, N.H. Superfund Site
NH Public Comment Period Extended for Proposed Change to the Soil Cleanup Plan at the Fletcher’s Paint Superfund Site in Milford, N.H.
MA Clean Up Plan Proposed for Blackburn and Union Privileges Superfund Site in Walpole, Mass.
NH Responsible Parties to Pay EPA and NH DES for Cleanup Costs at Elite Laundry Site in Jaffrey, N.H.
Other News
ME New Meadows River and Quahog Bay Studies to Begin June 30
MA Foxboro, Mass. Landlord to Pay Penalty and Take Steps to Reduce Risk of Lead Poisoning
CT Pfizer To Pay $975,000 For Alleged Clean Air Violations at Connecticut Facility
MA Draft Stormwater Permit Provides Protections for Worcester's Environment
MA Clean Up Underway at Pittsfield, Mass. Site
NH, MA N.H. and Mass. Estuaries Selected for EPA Climate Case Study
CT Shelton, Conn. Fined $142K for Illegal Sewage Discharges to Housatonic River


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