Increasingly, individuals are making a concerted effort to change their lifestyles to decrease their “carbon footprint,” and the pressure on industry to follow suit has never been greater. Whatever industry you are in, your customers and other key stakeholders will want to know what you are doing to meet your...
MIDWAY THROUGH the year seems a good time to take stock of some of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EPA most visible programs and efforts, beginning with the recent release of the agency's 1998 enforcement and compliance assurance results. According to EPA, 266 criminal cases were referred to the Department...
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that identifies research and technical support projects critical to the country's water supply. The EPA's Water Security Research and Technical Action Plan looks at the areas of physical a The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has released a...
Award recipients reduce emissions while improving the environment and companies' bottom line DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the second year in a row, Kimberly-Clark Corporation received an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWaySM Transportation Partnership for its leadership in conserving...
WASHINGTON -- California, New York City, three other states and a coalition of environmental groups plan to file notice today that they'll sue the Environmental Protection Agency to push it to regulate pollution from ocean ships and aircraft that's causing global warming. Under the Clean Air...
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc. ITSI has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA for a $110 million Remedial Action Contract RAC II to provide professional architect/engineer, technical, and management services to the Environmental Protection Agency EPA to support remedial response, enforcement oversight and non-time...
The Monroe Plan for Medical Care has been selected to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2008 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management for its efforts to provide quality asthma care that includes environmental controls. EPA presented the award at the 3rd annual Communities in...
The Monroe Plan for Medical Care has been selected to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2008 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management for its efforts to provide quality asthma care that includes environmental controls. EPA presented the award at the 3rd annual Communities in Action...
SACRAMENTO -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown joined officials in 17 other states Wednesday to demand that the federal Environmental Protection Agency release its internal finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health. The move comes after EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson wrote last week that he...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Alan Thornton of Environmental Investigation Agency, +1-202-361-6941, ALLANTHORNTON@compuserve.com; or Heather Sullivan ofHumane Society International, +1-301-721-6440, +1-703-283-5104,pshannon@hsus.org; or Jacob Levenson of International Fund forAnimal Welfare, +1-508-744-2235, Jlevenson@ifaw.org YARMOUTH, Mass., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading whale protectionorganizations will call for three Japanese seafood companies andtheir U.S. subsidiaries...
California plans to sue the Environmental Protection Agency this week for delaying a decision over whether to let the state aggressively reduce car and truck tailpipe emissions. The lawsuit's outcome could affect not only the California law aimed at cutting greenhouse gases but also the ability of other states to...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Anthony Flint of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, +1-617-661-3016 x116 Role of cities and development patterns eyed ingreenhousegasemissions, energy efficiency CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The role ofland use patterns and cities has emerged as a critical element instrategies to reduce harmful greenhouse...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Kristen Goodrich of the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, +1-202-566-1284, goodrich.kristen@epa.gov CHICAGO,Oct. 22/PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force will hold its 15thpublic meeting in Cincinnati from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 29, at theWestin Cincinnati, 21 E. Fifth St. The meeting, the...
To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Scott Jensen of the American Chemistry Council, +1-703-741-5834, scott_jensen@americanchemistry.com ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With anotherhurricane season upon us, the chemical industry is prepared to buildon the successful actions taken to weather devastating hurricaneslike Katrina and Rita. During Katrina and Rita, American Chemistry...
The state Public Service Commission has joined a nationwide plan to promote energy efficiency. Along with several other Midwest states, the PSC agreed to implement a National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, created by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — -->The Bush administration's plan to export nine ex-naval "Ghost Fleet" vessels from the James River in Virginia to Teesside, England for scrapping has itself been finally scrapped, according to British ship-breaker Able UK. American environmental groups responsible for first blocking the deal in 2003...
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality DEQ will host a public meeting on the proposed plan to address contamination at the Hudson Refinery Superfund Site in Cushing, which is in Payne County. DEQ is hosting the meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 31 at Cushing...
Can the Endangered Species Act outweigh state regulatory controls over issuing water-quality permits? The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped in to decide. The court plans to hear oral arguments in April in two cases: National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of...
Byline: Miles Moore International Paper IP Co. will schedule a two-week test burn of tire-derived fuel TDF at its Ticonderoga plant after receiving its final permit to do so from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. However, Vermont's...
www.epa.gov/hurricanes www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/fsdisasm.html At the first of the sites listed above, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) provides information for people, businesses, and state and local governments on preparations they should make when hurricane-force winds or storm flooding may occur. U.S. EPAs hurricanes Web site includes...
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