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Prepare for the Summer Smog Season with Free Air Quality Alerts
Air Quality Awareness Week is May 3 - May 7, 2021
EPA News Release: Prepare for the Summer Smog Season with Free Air Quality Alerts
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EPA celebrates nearly $35 million in EPA Brownfield Grants for Massachusetts
EPA News Release: EPA celebrates nearly $35 million in EPA Brownfield Grants for Massachusetts
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EPA and White House Senior Advisor Visit Charlotte, North Carolina to Highlight Latest Historic Funding for Clean School Buses
EPA Deputy Regional Administrator Cesar Zapata joined White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Tom Perez to announce Clean School Bus Grant to Charlotte-Mecklenburg County School District
EPA News Release: EPA and White House Senior Advisor Visit Charlotte, North Carolina to Highlight Latest Historic Funding for Clean School Buses
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EPA Region 7 Celebrates with Superfund Job Training Initiative Graduates in Joplin, Missouri
EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Celebrates with Superfund Job Training Initiative Graduates in Joplin, Missouri
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EPA Region 10 enforcement actions in 2023
EPA News Release: EPA Region 10 enforcement actions in 2023
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Capital High School students in Helena, Montana, recognized during online ceremony as Grand Prize winner of EPA ‘See a Bloom, Give it Room’ high school video challenge
Students receive $6,000 for video raising awareness about harmful algal blooms.
EPA News Release: Capital High School students in Helena, Montana, recognized during online ceremony as Grand Prize winner of EPA ‘See a Bloom, Give it Room’ high school video challenge
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EPA Announces Public Comment Period for Additions to Minnesota’s Impaired Waters List
EPA News Release: EPA Announces Public Comment Period for Additions to Minnesota’s Impaired Waters List
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EPA Announces Plan to Update Toxics Release Inventory to Advance Environmental Justice
Plan includes expanding reporting requirements for certain chemicals and facilities, including ethylene oxide and PFAS, and providing new tools for communities
EPA News Release: EPA Announces Plan to Update Toxics Release Inventory to Advance Environmental Justice
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Portland company fined $139,000 for Clean Air Act violations
EPA News Release: Portland company fined $139,000 for Clean Air Act violations
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Oil Companies to Pay $7.4 Million in Civil Penalties to Resolve U.S. Claims for Pipeline Spill on Allotted Tribal Land
Clean Water Act Settlement Addresses July 2022 Crude Oil Pipeline Rupture into Oklahoma’s Skull Creek
EPA News Release: Oil Companies to Pay $7.4 Million in Civil Penalties to Resolve U.S. Claims for Pipeline Spill on Allotted Tribal Land
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EPA Settlement Addresses Contractor’s Actions on Renovation TV Show Violating the Lead-Based Paint Rule
Marrs Construction Co. Will Pay Penalty and Raise Awareness of Lead-Safe Work Practices Through Home Improvement Programming
EPA News Release: EPA Settlement Addresses Contractor’s Actions on Renovation TV Show Violating the Lead-Based Paint Rule
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Apache Corporation to pay $4 million and reduce unlawful air pollution from oil and gas wells in New Mexico and Texas, eliminating more than 10,000 tons of harmful air pollutants annually
Company will also spend $5.5 million for preventive measures and to help address environmental harm caused by its violations
EPA News Release: Apache Corporation to pay $4 million and reduce unlawful air pollution from oil and gas wells in New Mexico and Texas, eliminating more than 10,000 tons of harmful air pollutants annually
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Texas Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Clean Air Act Violation, Fined More than $30 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties Related to Explosions at Its Facility in Port Neches
November 2019 explosions prompted evacuations of thousands of area residents and released millions of pounds of extremely hazardous substances
EPA News Release: Texas Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Clean Air Act Violation, Fined More than $30 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties Related to Explosions at Its Facility in Port Neches
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Janet McCabe Sworn in as 16th EPA Deputy Administrator
EPA News Release: Janet McCabe Sworn in as 16th EPA Deputy Administrator
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Administrator Regan Statement on the First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris Administration
EPA News Release: Administrator Regan Statement on the First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris Administration
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EPA Determines that Alaska’s Water Quality Standards Need to be Updated Based on More Accurate Fish Consumption Rates to Protect Communities from Toxic Pollution
EPA News Release: EPA Determines that Alaska’s Water Quality Standards Need to be Updated Based on More Accurate Fish Consumption Rates to Protect Communities from Toxic Pollution
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EPA Announces the Seventh Annual Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Awards Winners
EPA News Release: EPA Announces the Seventh Annual Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Awards Winners
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New York State High School Student Wins EPA’s 2024 Patrick H. Hurd Award for Eco-Friendly Textile Dyes
EPA News Release: New York State High School Student Wins EPA’s 2024 Patrick H. Hurd Award for Eco-Friendly Textile Dyes
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EPA fines Connecticut property management company and property owners for alleged violations of federal Lead Disclosure Rule in New Haven and Waterbury
EPA News Release: EPA fines Connecticut property management company and property owners for alleged violations of federal Lead Disclosure Rule in New Haven and Waterbury
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EPA Selects Groundwater Cleanup Plan for Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. Superfund Site in N. Smithfield, R.I.
EPA News Release: EPA Selects Groundwater Cleanup Plan for Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. Superfund Site in N. Smithfield, R.I.