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• EPA to Begin Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Goo Smoke Shop Site in Clinton Township, Michigan

  EPA News Release: EPA to Begin Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Goo Smoke Shop Site in Clinton Township, Michigan

  • Release Date: August 21, 2024

• EPA Recommends that People in the Great Lakes Region Prepare Now to Avoid Potential Exposure this Summer to Wildfire Smoke

  EPA News Release: EPA Recommends that People in the Great Lakes Region Prepare Now to Avoid Potential Exposure this Summer to Wildfire Smoke

  • Release Date: June 24, 2024

• EPA Begins Cleanup at the Cheboygan Tissue Fire Site in Michigan

  More truck traffic along South Main Street is anticipated, South Main Street sidewalk will remain closed

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Cleanup at the Cheboygan Tissue Fire Site in Michigan

  • Release Date: April 18, 2024

• EPA Deputy Administrator Visits Minneapolis to Announce $4 Million in Recycling Funding and New Electric School Buses under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda

  EPA News Release: EPA Deputy Administrator Visits Minneapolis to Announce $4 Million in Recycling Funding and New Electric School Buses under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda

  • Release Date: April 9, 2024

• EPA proposes denying Midwest Generation’s request for more time to close an unlined coal ash pond at Waukegan, Illinois, facility

  Agency opens public comment period July 5

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes denying Midwest Generation’s request for more time to close an unlined coal ash pond at Waukegan, Illinois, facility

  • Release Date: June 21, 2023

• EPA Region 5 Announces Virtual Listening Session on PFAS Strategic Roadmap

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 5 Announces Virtual Listening Session on PFAS Strategic Roadmap

  • Release Date: March 30, 2023

• Statement from Regional Administrator Debra Shore on the East Palestine Train Derailment

  EPA News Release: Statement from Regional Administrator Debra Shore on the East Palestine Train Derailment

  • Release Date: February 14, 2023

• U.S. EPA begins cleanup of Nelson Knitting site in Rockford, Illinois

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA begins cleanup of Nelson Knitting site in Rockford, Illinois

  • Release Date: January 30, 2023

• EPA Recognizes Ohio Educator with 2022 Presidential Innovation Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Ohio Educator with 2022 Presidential Innovation Award

  • Release Date: July 7, 2022

• EPA Recognizes Waukegan Educator with 2022 Presidential Innovation Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Waukegan Educator with 2022 Presidential Innovation Award

  • Release Date: July 7, 2022

• EPA Recognizes West Lafayette Students with 2022 President’s Environmental Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes West Lafayette Students with 2022 President’s Environmental Award

  • Release Date: July 7, 2022

• EPA Recognizes Ohio Elementary Students with Presidential Environmental Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Ohio Elementary Students with Presidential Environmental Award

  • Release Date: July 7, 2022

• EPA Announces Most Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Plants of 2021 in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Most Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Plants of 2021 in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin

  • Release Date: March 16, 2022

• 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 Begins Contaminated Soil Cleanup at Former Scrapyard in Hancock, Michigan

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Contaminated Soil Cleanup at Former Scrapyard in Hancock, Michigan

  • Release Date: July 20, 2021