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• EPA to Recover $1.95 Million for Cleanup Costs in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood

  EPA News Release: EPA to Recover $1.95 Million for Cleanup Costs in Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood

  • Release Date: December 20, 2021

• EPA Files Clean Air Act Complaint Against Company in Waterford, Michigan, for the Sale of Vehicle Emission “Defeat Devices”

  EPA News Release: EPA Files Clean Air Act Complaint Against Company in Waterford, Michigan, for the Sale of Vehicle Emission “Defeat Devices”

  • Release Date: December 16, 2021

• Monsanto Successor Companies Agree to Clean Up Remaining Surface Contamination at Sauget Superfund Sites under Federal Settlement

  Solutia and Pharmacia to Pay $700,000 in Past Response Costs and Implement Cleanup Estimated to Cost $17.9 Million

  EPA News Release: Monsanto Successor Companies Agree to Clean Up Remaining Surface Contamination at Sauget Superfund Sites under Federal Settlement

  • Release Date: December 14, 2021

• Manufacturers in Midwest Cut 5 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse Emissions with Help from EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program

  EPA News Release: Manufacturers in Midwest Cut 5 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse Emissions with Help from EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program

  • Release Date: December 1, 2021

• EPA Cites Republic Steel for Lead Air Pollution in Canton, Ohio

  EPA News Release: EPA Cites Republic Steel for Lead Air Pollution in Canton, Ohio

  • Release Date: November 4, 2021

• La EPA llega a acuerdos con 41 renovadores de hogares de Idaho, Oregon y Washington por infracciones de pintura a base de plomo

  Capacitaciones sobre seguridad de pintura con plomo para contratistas y capacitaciones de educación comunitaria se ofrecen este otoño.

  EPA News Release: La EPA llega a acuerdos con 41 renovadores de hogares de Idaho, Oregon y Washington por infracciones de pintura a base de plomo

  • Release Date: October 26, 2021

• EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  Lead paint safety training for contractors, community education workshops offered this fall

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  • Release Date: October 25, 2021

• EcoLab pays $214K penalty for hazardous waste, pesticides violations and 2019 Tacoma Tideflats fire

  EPA News Release: EcoLab pays $214K penalty for hazardous waste, pesticides violations and 2019 Tacoma Tideflats fire

  • Release Date: October 22, 2021

• Buckeye and West Shore Pipelines to Pay $8.7 Million in Civil Penalties and Damages for Injuries to Natural Resources Resulting from 2010 Crude Oil Spill near Lockport, Illinois

  EPA News Release: Buckeye and West Shore Pipelines to Pay $8.7 Million in Civil Penalties and Damages for Injuries to Natural Resources Resulting from 2010 Crude Oil Spill near Lockport, Illinois

  • Release Date: October 13, 2021

• Idaho cities of Winchester, Craigmont pay Clean Water Act penalties for violations at wastewater treatment plants

  Each city agreed to pay $15,000 penalty

  EPA News Release: Idaho cities of Winchester, Craigmont pay Clean Water Act penalties for violations at wastewater treatment plants

  • Release Date: October 5, 2021

• EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  Waste Management, Inc., agrees to pay $104k penalty and make immediate improvements

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA Reaches Settlement with Cornell Forge in Chicago Regarding Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act

  EPA News Release: EPA Reaches Settlement with Cornell Forge in Chicago Regarding Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  Owens-Brockway Glass failed to report chromium used in glassmaking

  EPA News Release: EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  • Release Date: September 16, 2021

• EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  Settlement resolves claims stemming from 2016 UPRR train derailment, spill, and fire

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  • Release Date: September 15, 2021

• EPA Settlement with Jeg’s Automotive Inc. of Delaware, Ohio, Resolves Clean Air Act Violations for Sales of Motor Vehicle Emission Control Defeat Devices

  Company will pay $300,000 penalty and perform supplemental environmental project valued at $275,000 to replace school buses in areas of environmental justice concern in Columbus, Ohio

  EPA News Release: EPA Settlement with Jeg’s Automotive Inc. of Delaware, Ohio, Resolves Clean Air Act Violations for Sales of Motor Vehicle Emission Control Defeat Devices

  • Release Date: September 13, 2021