Epa Region 10 (pacific Northwest)
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Recent News About Epa Region 10 (pacific Northwest)
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Hilcorp Alaska has paid a $180,580 penalty for Clean Air Act violations at 35 of its Prudhoe Bay, Milne Point, and Kenai Peninsula facilities in Alaska.
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The report indicates that between 2019 and 2020, total releases of TRI chemicals nationwide decreased by 10 percent and chemical releases continue to decrease in EPA’s Region 10.
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On Friday February 25, 2022, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox joined U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska.
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As part of an EPA national compliance initiative aimed at Reducing Accidental Releases at Industrial and Chemical Facilities, in 2021 the Region 10 office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – which enforces federal environmental laws in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington – completed the following 10 enforcement cases for minor, easily correctible violations of the chemical accident prevention provisions of Clean Air Act Section 112r.
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Today, EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) adopted recommendations to present to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan on the agency’s implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has penalized SGL Composites $139,100 for repeated failures to immediately report releases of hydrogen cyanide from its facility, SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers, in Moses Lake, Washington.
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In 2021 the Region 10 office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – which enforces federal environmental laws in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington – completed the following six enforcement cases for violations of Section 312 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
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In 2021 the Region 10 office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – which enforces federal environmental laws in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington – completed the following 15 enforcement cases for violations of the Clean Water Act.
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The Alaska Forum, Inc. will receive $200,000 in Brownfields grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to train and place students in environmental jobs.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is presenting the 2021 George F. Ames Performance and Innovation in the SRF Creating Environmental Success (PISCES) Award for Excellence in Community Engagement to the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced its 2020-2021 national and regional awardees for their outstanding sustainability efforts.
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of upcoming public listening sessions on the draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities for communities and stakeholders to provide comments on the plan
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Barber Valley Development, Inc. have settled a case the agency brought after the company illegally discharged sand, gravel, and rocks into wetlands adjacent to Council Spring Creek in Boise.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Gardner-Gibson, Inc. has paid a $650,000 penalty to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act related to the release of 60,000 gallons of hot, liquid asphalt from its Gardner-Fields, Inc. facility in Tacoma.