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EPA's 'Fix a Leak Week' has been 'helping people save water and money' for 15 years, agency wastewater management director says

Gotta water leak? A couple of days remain to get it fixed and make it part of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 15th annual "Fix a Leak Week," EPA's WaterSense program's way to encourage consumers and businesses to find and repair plumbing leaks in homes and improve landscaping irrigation systems.

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Garcia: 'OxyChem will perform the engineering work' for New Jersey Superfund cleanup

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering Occidental Chemical Corporation to design a cleanup plan for the upper nine miles of the Lower Passaic River at the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site in New Jersey.

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Guzman: Chemical-discharges report shows EPA is 'prioritizing transparency with our toxics data'

Environmental releases of more than 500 chemicals listed on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) from reporting facilities nationwide were still below pre-pandemic levels in 2021.

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Regan: 'We know air pollution doesn’t stop at the state line'

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced a rule aimed at significantly reducing smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states

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Cash: Recovered remediation funds will go to Treasury 'for the benefit of the people we serve'

Philips North America LLC will reimburse American taxpayers more than $700,000 for costs associated with cleaning up a contaminated manufacturing site in Connecticut.

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Regan: 'EPA is leading the way forward' in protecting communities from PFAS

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to establish legally enforceable measures to combat six specific pollutants known to occur in the nation's drinking water.

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McCollister: 'We can fund grants that enable programs such as the Green for Greene Program to succeed'

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister attended a graduation ceremony for the Green for Greene Program at Ozark Correctional Center near Springfield, Mo.

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Regan: 'DOE and EPA are uniting our long-standing efforts to ensure a robust and resilient system'

The U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed a joint memorandum of understanding to help guide new clean energy opportunities.

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Guzman: EPA will ‘close illegal large capacity cesspools’ to ‘safeguard our communities’

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to close two illegal cesspools at a mobile home park in Los Angeles County.

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Freedhoff: 'Grant will help enhance pesticide safety and protect workers'

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for a $15 million grant program to support a national education and training program on the safe application of restricted use pesticides.

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New Jersey assemblywoman on Diamond Alkali Superfund Site: 'Someone is going to have to pay for this cleanup'

The Diamond Alkali Superfund Site, located near New Jersey's Passaic River, is one of the longest existing extensively contaminated sites listed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priority List of polluted locations in need of remediation. Although the EPA estimated that cleaning up the site will cost $1.8 billion, it recently came to an agreement for 85 polluters to pay for $150 million worth of cleanup costs, raising the question of who will pay for the rest.

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Amaya: 'This is the first time we’ve been able to really dive deeper' to study ocean temperature extremes

A team led by researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have determined that marine heat waves can occur deep underwater, as reported in a paper published in Nature Communications.

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Cash: Settlement means Gloucester, Mass. 'final major city in the eastern U.S. to install secondary treatment at their wastewater treatment facilities'

A coastal New England city's $150 million settlement of violations at a water-treatment facility that discharged undertreated effluent will lead to a cleaner Massachusetts Bay, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) official said in a news release.

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Regan: EPA works to 'strengthen our nation’s water infrastructure'

Five states will receive millions of dollars in federal funding to address contaminants in their drinking water thanks to President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Regan: EPA takes 'step toward protecting communities from harmful pollution'

The Biden-Harris administration is proposing to strengthen wastewater discharge standards for coal-fired power plants under the Clean Water Act.

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Starfield: Violation notices 'demonstrate EPA's commitment' to the AIM Act

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced several enforcement actions to support national and international goals of reducing the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to combat climate change.