Operators of a polymer plant in Louisiana have agreed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice to pay $365,500 in civil penalties for violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Region 6 office of the EPA in Dallas announced the agreement was reached with the Certain Teed Lake Charles Polymer …
Public hearings slated for three major cities by the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss proposals to weaken vehicle efficiency standards have been cancelled. The EPA called off the hearings for Washington, D.C., Detroit and Los Angeles after it announced another proposed change to the Obama-era carbon pollution rule. Word of the change of plans was …
The EPA attorney who made some controversial ethics decisions for former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leaving the agency in the coming weeks. Kevin Minoli, EPA’s principal deputy general counsel and designated agency ethics official plans to leave the agency at the end of September and join a Washington D.C. law firm. “I made this …
It’s unclear how a new federal court ruling will impact Oklahoma’s power over coal ash disposal, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has thrown out some Trump administration rules saying they weren’t stringent enough. The ruling came in a fight by environmental groups against the actions of the Trump …
Environmentalists don’t like what the Trump administration did in proposing the repeal of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. But one Washington, D.C. based group is among those who consider it a good move. Citizens Against Government Waste applauded the Environmental Protection Agency for proposing the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. President Tom Schatz said the …
The rolling back of some regulations against coal plants in Oklahoma and the rest of the nation was formally announced Tuesday by the Trump administration. The steps are considered to be the most significant weakening of the restrictive environmental rules created under the administration of President Barack Obama. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new Affordable Clean …
While the EPA still has Superfund sites in Oklahoma, it is removing a site in Greenville, Texas from its list of polluted areas. The former Esco Manufacturing Plant site is being removed from the Superfund National Priorities List, according to an announcement by the Environmental Protection agency. A statement issued by the EPA and the …
Today, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a grant to Team Up to Clean Up to create 4 acres of wetland habitat to mitigate pollution from stormwater runoff and flooding from the City of Eufaula, OK. The project will improve water quality in Lake Eufaula and …
While the use of asbestos has been limited in the past, the government is considering new uses for the material suspected of causing cancer and other diseases. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules that could allow for new uses of the product that once was widely used in the construction of homes and office …
The U.S. Department of State recently published its Draft Environmental Assessment for the Keystone XL Pipeline Mainline Alternative Route in Nebraska and at least one coalition has expressed vehement opposition to the proposal. Bold Nebraska, a progressive grassroots political advocacy group, has numerous points of contention. The coalition asserts the plan minimizes the impact of …
