EPA announced two recent enforcement actions in one of the most violated portions of the Clean Air Act. William Daniel of Bedford Heights, Ohio, was indicted June 19 on charges that he dumped into an empty field 469 bags of waste containing...
FISCAL 1999 was a record year for enforcement actions and penalties for the Environmental Protection Agency. Administrator: Carol Browner says that $166.7 million in civil penalties were assessed and another $3.6 billion in enforcement actions were FISCAL 1999 was a record year for enforcement...
AN APPELLATE COURT decision that struck down EPA's authority to overfile on state enforcement action impairs the agency's ability to maintain national consistency in the laws it administers, EPA says in court papers. Overfiling occurs when EPA purs AN APPELLATE COURT decision that struck...
Byline: BRUCE GEISELMAN WASHINGTON-Polluters paid $2.9 billion to reduce pollution and clean up contamination during fiscal year 2003 as a result of enforcement actions by the federal government. That is about $1 billion less than in the previou Byline: BRUCE GEISELMAN...
IN FISCAL 1997, Environmental Protection Agency took more than 3,000 enforcement actions that resulted in millions of dollars in fines and billions of pounds of pollutants being either cleaned up or eliminated altogether. "EPA concluded 3,36 IN FISCAL 1997, Environmental Protection Agency...
A FEDERAL APPEALS court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by dozens of companies and industry groups seeking to overturn Environmental Protection Agency's credible evidence rule. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says it will delay A FEDERAL APPEALS...
A FEDERAL APPEALS court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by dozens of companies and industry groups seeking to overturn Environmental Protection Agency's credible evidence rule. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia says it will delay A FEDERAL APPEALS...
The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA has taken enforcement actions against three US companies exporting hazardous wastes from Maquiladora plants in Mexico to the US for treatment and disposal. Allied-Signal Aerospace, REM-TEX Manufacturing, andThe US Environmental Protection Agency EPA has taken enforcement actions against three US...
The release of EPA's 2000 enforcement statistics gave industry groups, long unhappy about overly aggressive enforcement strategies at the agency, one more reason to complain. Thanks to a huge increase in the number of administrative nonpenalt The release...
The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is increasing enforcement activity nationwide for violations of refrigerant regulations under the Clean Air Act, according to Environmental Support Services ESS, a company that specializes in helping comp The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is increasing enforcement activity nationwide...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency administrator Carol Browner has signed a controversial final rule that gives federal and state regulators authority to use a much broader range of evidence to establish violations of the Clean Air Act. The "cr ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency administrator Carol...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined a commercial industrial laundry company $425,000 for violations at two of the company's California facilities, including one in Pittsburg. G&K Services locations in Pittsburg and Santa Fe Springs generated hazardous waste from the cleaning of solvent-contaminated rags by not controlling 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...
More than two years after a dog choked to death on government poison meant for coyotes, a federal agency says the trap was illegally placed too close to a road in eastern Utah. In a letter to the U.S. Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services, officials said the cyanide...
The US Senate voted to override President George Bush's veto of a US$23 billion landmark water development bill which includes US$25 million for infrastructure improvements to the USVI wastewater system, reports Caribbean Net News (Nov. 9, 2007). The Senate vote followed an earlier House vote to...
This article examines whether states shirked enforcement responsibilities in their principal-agent relationship with the federal government when implementing a delegated environmental program. It evaluates determinants of environmental enforcement stringency, particularly whether penalties were less when imposed by states than by the federal government. It analyzes 6,048 hazardous waste administrative penalties...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: William Omohundro, +1-312-353-8254,omohundro.william@epa.gov, or Karen Thompson, +1-312-353-8547,thompson.karen@epa.gov, both of EPA CHICAGO,Nov. 15/PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 enforcement actions in Indiana in 2007will reduce pollution by more than 36 million pounds and result inregulated entities spending more than $1.8 billion on pollutioncontrols to correct past...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: William Omohundro, +1-312-353-8254,omohundro.william@epa.gov, or Karen Thompson, +1-312-353-8547,thompson.karen@epa.gov, both of U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyRegion 5 CHICAGO,Nov. 15/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 enforcement actions in Illinois in 2007will reduce pollution by almost 2.6 million pounds and result inregulated entities spending more than $34 million on pollutioncontrols...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: William Omohundro, +1-312-353-8254,omohundro.william@epa.gov or Karen Thompson, +1-312-353-8547,thompson.karen@epa.gov, both of the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency. CHICAGO,Nov. 15/PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 enforcement actions in Michigan in 2007will reduce pollution by more than 45.3 million pounds and result inregulated entities spending more than $200 million on pollutioncontrols...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: William Omohundro, +1-312-353-8254,omohundro.william@epa.gov or Karen Thompson, +1-312-353-8547,thompson.karen@epa.gov, both of the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency Region 5 CHICAGO,Nov. 15/PRNewswire-USNewswire/---U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 enforcement actions in Minnesota in 2007will reduce pollution by more than 92,000 pounds and result inregulated entities spending more than $287,000 on pollution controlsto...
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