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Recent News About U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with Derichebourg Recycling USA Inc. (Derichebourg) of Houston, Texas, to resolve Clean Air Act violations at 10 scrap metal recycling facilities in Texas and Oklahoma.
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Nine small businesses have received Phase II funding of more than $3 million to continue development of environmental technologies and bring them to market.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that Gardner-Gibson, Inc. paid a $650,000 penalty for a 2015 spill of hot asphalt that threatened Commencement Bay and other violations of the Clean Waters Act.
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,599,571 in funding for nine small businesses to further develop and commercialize technologies to protect the environment and public health.
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking several actions to protect communities and hold facilities accountable for controlling and cleaning up the contamination created by decades of coal ash disposal.
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft “EJ Action Plan: Building Up Environmental Justice in EPA’s Land Protection and Cleanup Programs” highlighting projects, tools, and practices to be applied to the Agency’s Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) programs.
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EPA to Evaluate Whether Lead Emissions from Piston-Engine Aircraft Endanger Human Health and WelfareThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will evaluate whether emissions from piston-engine aircraft operating on leaded fuel contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare.
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January marks the beginning of National Radon Action Month, a time of year when EPA encourages everyone to test their home for radon.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page proposed rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Washington, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued opinions on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to the CEO of the Tennessee Valley...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Washington, D.C.-House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) today urged Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Communications and Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) to hold an oversight hearing to review ongoing NTIA activities and programs. This would be the first NTIA oversight hearing since the 115th Congress.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure today in support of the agency’s proposed National Coverage Determination...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lead Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Lead Republican Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a letter to President Biden on the administration’s lack of response to requests from Congress on COVID-19.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) recently received $513,234 in grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program for projects that reduce diesel emissions from older fleets and vehicles.
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A Catawba, South Carolina paper mill recently agreed on a proposed settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address emissions of hydrogen sulfide causing issues for state and tribal communities.