U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Recent News About U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 2021 national recycling strategy, hoping it can be used to tackle critical recycling challenges and create a stronger, more resilient and cost-effective municipal solid waste recycling system.
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Air quality is a primary concern for many Pacific Northwest tribal communities, where smoke from wildfires and wood-heating devices can affect human health and is often present year-round.
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Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced that President Biden will appoint Daniel Blackman to become EPA’s Regional Administrator for Region 4.
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a proposed rule to re-establish the pre-2015 definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which had been in place for decades, updated to reflect consideration of Supreme Court decisions.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that dredging and capping work is completed at the Grasse River Superfund site (aka Alcoa Aggregation) in Massena, New York.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent notice that it has added 32 waterways to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List, according to a report by the Red Lake Nation News.
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This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded over $2 Million to projects that reduce diesel emissions from Georgia’s existing fleet of older, dirtier engines and vehicles.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with several other federal agencies and non-governmental partners, took time recently to reflect on a decade of progress under the Urban Waters Federal Partnership program, while recommitting to restoring urban waterways.
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News Release: Washington D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about Speaker Pelosi’s grand socialist agenda.
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News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Subcommittee Chairman Michael Doyle (D-PA) urging them to hold a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight hearing to address the unprecedented influx of funding to the commission.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California.
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On Oct. 26, at a virtual event with Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel, and other officials, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox announced a $224 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation.
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As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California to invest in environmental programs and water infrastructure.
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As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $23 million in funding to 17 tribes in Arizona to invest in environmental protection programs and water infrastructure.
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After consideration of public comments, EPA has finalized its biological evaluations (BEs) for glyphosate, atrazine, and simazine, three herbicides that are used to control a variety of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
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News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement praising House passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act...
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Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed methane standard
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s table of Energy and Commerce provisions in the tax and spending spree.
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News Release: Ever since her signature socialist price control scheme, H.R. 3, failed with a bipartisan vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s been working to revive it in the tax and spending spree. Despite many rewrites behind closed doors, her price controls will still lead to fewer cures, less innovation, and no hope.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to hold a virtual public meeting Nov. 30 to address contamination concerns at Adam’s Plating Superfund site in Lansing, Michigan.