By Karen Kidd | Apr 8, 2022
An ongoing Cornell University Great Lakes ecosystem monitoring project, recipient of a more than $6.74 million U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant, needs such assistance to continue, a university official said in a news release
By Karen Kidd | Apr 7, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) $5 million campaign to remind drivers about behind-the-wheel distractions kicks off today as part of a team effort, an administration official said in a news release.
By Karen Kidd | Apr 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is slated to receive approximately $105 billion as its portion of President Joseph R. Biden's fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023) budget,
By Karen Kidd | Apr 3, 2022
A March 23 field visit with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, representatives from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Pennsylvania diary producers is part of getting to know how things are on the ground, one of the officials said in a news release.
By Karen Kidd | Apr 3, 2022
U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm visited West Virginia March 18.
By Karen Kidd | Apr 2, 2022
A small Iowa town is among five communities with Superfund sites the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes be added to its National Priorities List.
By Karen Kidd | Apr 2, 2022
The nearly $490,000 grant the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade their municipal fleet is "only the beginning," the agency's administrator said in a March 17 news release.
By Karen Kidd | Apr 1, 2022
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new tool to help the public remain informed as part of the agency's efforts to empower those outside the EPA to help themselves.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 31, 2022
General Electric Co. is required to cleanup a portion of the GE-Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site, the EPA has determined in its Revised Final Permit issued earlier this month.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 31, 2022
The former Memphis-area assistant district attorney who faces up to five years in prison following her guilty plea to selling police accident reports betrayed the public's trust, an FBI special agent said in a news release.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 31, 2022
The China portion of this year's trade policy report issued March 1 says President Joe Biden's administration will rely on its Build Back Better agenda to deal with China's "unfair" practices.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 29, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced new appointees, including Christoper Davis, who will serve as chief of staff, in a March 18 news release.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 26, 2022
New York companies that manage chemicals continue to make progress in preventing pollution and reducing chemical releases, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analysis issued earlier this month.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 24, 2022
The tiny federally endangered Pahrump poolfish now flourish in eastern Nevada’s Spring Valley thanks to interagency habitat improvements for which a local biologist has received a prestigious award, according to a March 10 U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management news release.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recently announced funding of nearly $1 million to Colorado State University for air quality and wildfire smoke exposure research comes after a disastrous fire in the Rocky Mountain state.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 19, 2022
A Woodlands, Tex.-based petrochemical corporation has agreed to spend more than $121 million on facilities upgrades and civil penalties to settle alleged violations of federal and state environmental laws.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 16, 2022
This year's U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration public service award honorees are saving lives, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a March 14 news release.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 15, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yet issued an update following public listening sessions earlier this month on a draft strategy to reduce lead exposures and disparities in local communities.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 13, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Illinois agreed that the greater Chicago area attained acceptable ground ozone levels.
