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Impacted Landowners Demand EPA Revise Flawed Fracking Study
2015-10-30 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Scientific Advisory Board met this week to review the agencys draft assessment of the impact of fracking on drinking water resources, but the largely academic exercise got a dose of reality from residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas who have fought for years to get U.S. EPA to act. Inexplicably, their cases of contamination were excluded in the thousands of pages that make up the EPAs assessment. Given only...
EPA Settlements help protect public against lead exposure.
2015-10-30 13:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA announced 75 enforcement actions from the past year that require renovation contractors and training providers to protect people from harmful exposure to lead dust and debris, as required by EPA's Lead-based Paint Renovation, Repair, and Painting regulations. Settlements were filed for renovations performed on pre-1978 homes and child-care facilities, and each requires that alleged violator certify its compliance with RRP regulations to EPA and, in most cases, pay civil penalties.
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No U.S. EPA carbon rule court decision until after Paris climate talks
2015-10-29 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. federal court that will weigh whether to block the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan will not make a decision until after United Nations climate change talks conclude in mid-December, according to a court order issued on Thursday. The EPAs Clean Power Plan is a key measure to help the United States meet the greenhouse gas reduction target it pledged ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in Paris that will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. But once the Clean...
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EPA: Remedy to St. Louis Area Landfill Fire to Come in 2015
2015-10-27 19:10:00| Waste Age
The Associated Press A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesnt reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said Monday. read more
As legal onslaught begins, EPA tells states how to buy time on climate rule
2015-10-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As expected, the publication of the final Clean Power Plan in the Federal Register on Friday brought on a swarm of lawsuits from opponents of the U.S. EPA rule. On Friday morning, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton jointly announced a 24-state lawsuit challenging EPA's rule. Later that day, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem announced their states are also challenging the rule, meaning that...
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