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EPA Updates Oil and Gas Standards for Storage Tanks
2013-08-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA issued updates to its April 2012 oil and natural gas standards for storage tanks, which allow responsible oil and natural gas production while ensuring air emissions are reduced as quickly as possible. Updates will phase in emission control deadlines, starting with high-emitting tanks first, and will provide time needed to ramp up production and installation of controls. Storage tanks that emit 6 or more tons of VOCs a year must reduce emissions by 95%. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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EPA Screens More Than 66,000 Contaminated Sites for Renewable Energy Potential
2013-08-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA updated its RE-Powering Mapping and Screening Tool, which will now provide preliminary screening results for renewable energy potential at 66,000 contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites across the country. Pulling from EPA databases of potentially and formerly contaminated lands, as well as partnering with state agencies from California, Hawaii, Oregon, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, and Virginia, RE-Powering Initiative expanded universe of sites from 24,000. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Former Republican EPA chiefs back Obama on climate change
2013-08-02 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: What do Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and George W. Bush have in common? Yes, OK, obviously they were all Republican presidents. But as of Friday, there is something else that ties them all together. EPA administrators who worked for all of those presidents came out in support of stronger actions on climate change, co-signing a powerful op-ed in The New York Times supporting Barack Obamas climate actions and arguing that the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb...
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EQM Technologies & Energy, Inc. Announces New $40M EPA Contract
2013-08-02 10:46:00| pollutiononline News Articles
EQM Technologies & Energy, Inc. (“EQM”), a leading provider of environmental services to government and commercial businesses, recently announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) has awarded it a 26 month contract with a projected value of up to $40M to provide remediation of contaminated sediments and habitat restoration in the Buffalo, NY area (the “Buffalo River Project”).
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U.S. coal state lawmakers seek regulatory relief from EPA chief
2013-08-02 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Democrats from West Virginia, concerned about jobs in the major coal-producing state, urged President Barack Obama's chief environmental regulator to be flexible when putting in place future federal curbs on carbon emissions. A delegation of 17 Democratic lawmakers from the state, led by U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, met with Gina McCarthy, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to press their concerns about the economic impact of agency rules on their state's economy. The...
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