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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

• EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  EPA News Release: EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  • Release Date: November 9, 2021

• EPA Approves the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota to Develop Water Quality Standards

  EPA News Release: EPA Approves the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota to Develop Water Quality Standards

  • Release Date: November 9, 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

• EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  EPA News Release: EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  • Release Date: October 1, 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 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

• Court Approves Consent Decree Requiring U. S. Steel to Improve Environmental Compliance at Portage, Indiana, Facility

  Company to Pay Penalty, Reimburse U.S. for Response Costs and Damages for Chromium Spill

  EPA News Release: Court Approves Consent Decree Requiring U. S. Steel to Improve Environmental Compliance at Portage, Indiana, Facility

  • Release Date: September 2, 2021

• EPA Announces Second Public Comment Period for Additions to Minnesota’s Impaired Waters List

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Second Public Comment Period for Additions to Minnesota’s Impaired Waters List

  • Release Date: September 1, 2021

• EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  EPA News Release: EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  Nearly $70 million for cleanup and restoration results in Ohio’s first area of concern delisting

  EPA News Release: EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: August 19, 2021

• EPA Orders Action and Monitoring to Protect Drinking Water for Residents of Cahokia Heights, Illinois

  EPA News Release: EPA Orders Action and Monitoring to Protect Drinking Water for Residents of Cahokia Heights, Illinois

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021