U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary (USDA) Tom Vilsack, Mike Boots of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Commonwealth of Virginia ...
Tags: Water Quality, Agriculture
On December 17, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator will announce a major grant award to the Public Health Institute’s Regional Asthma Management & Prevention, in Oakland, ...
Tags: asthma triggers, Health
EPA has released a short video that applauds the voluntary efforts of a professor and students at Bennington College to help their local community combat climate issues by analyzing energy use of municipal streetlights and working with the ...
Tags: municipal streetlights, greenhouse gas emissions, Construction
Two Boston-area landlords will perform health-protective improvements on five Dorchester, Mass. properties to settle EPA claims that they failed to follow federal lead paint disclosure laws. Under the settlement, My Van Nguyen and Xem Thi ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $54 million plan submitted by Delaware for clean water projects, including efforts that will improve local water quality by eliminating failing septic systems, and reduce greenhouse ...
Tags: septic systems, water quality, Agriculture
Armstrong World Industries has decided to exit its European flooring business and cease further funding of its DLW subsidiary effective immediately. As a result of this decision, local DLW management filed for insolvency in Germany. ...
Need a recipe for the perfect Thanksgiving meal? Start your holiday meal off right with an ounce of fire prevention and add a pound of food safety. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), ...
Tags: Thanksgiving meal, recipe, Agriculture
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded funding to eight organizations throughout the United States to protect public health by reducing exposure to indoor pollutants, such as radon, and environmental asthma triggers ...
Tags: public health, indoor pollutants, Protection
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to Nuevo Midstream, L.L.C., to build three gas processing plants. The facility is ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Capital Investments, Industrial Equipment
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, ...
Tags: Food Waste, Energy Conversion, Industrial
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is helping the Redwood Valley County Water District, in Mendocino County, Calif. assess the risks they face from climate change and to take actions that increase resilience. The Water District and ...
Tags: climate change, Agriculture
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, on her first trip to New Jersey, was joined by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop at the Berry Lane Park project to highlight EPA funding that has helped Jersey City ...
Tags: EPA Investment, Agriculture
This holiday season, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages people to save money and protect the environment by reducing the amount of wasted food that gets thrown away. In 2011 alone, Americans generated 36 million tons ...
Tags: Food Waste, Agriculture
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, in cooperation with state agencies, rice growers and industry, announced an agreement to create federally enforceable ...
On Tuesday, November 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator and City of San Jose officials will tour the city’s Zero Waste Energy Development anaerobic digestion facility where ...
Tags: food waste, renewable energy, Agriculture