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WASHINGTON Working with the states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with its plan to call on certain states to update their Clean Air Act implementation plans to cover greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These changes will ensure that beginning in January 2011 the…
NOAA Capt. David A. Score today assumed command of the agency's Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA's Atlantic fleet.
Permit conditions will ensure protection of groundwater at Centennial uranium site(Denver, Colorado December 3, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an injection well permit to Powertech, (USA) Inc. that will enable the company to re-inject groundwater from an aquifer pump…
NOAA's Fisheries Service is proposing to list four subspecies of ringed seals, found in the Arctic Basin and the North Atlantic, and two distinct population segments of bearded seals in the Pacific Ocean, as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 3, 2010) - EPA Region 7 has issued an administrative compliance order to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), directing it to correct a series of violations of a stormwater permit issued for the U.S. Highway 5...
By Jani PalmerThree months ago I blogged to parents and teachers about opportunities for kids to participate in a radon poster contest to get their design on a T-shirt to celebrate National Radon Action Month. Responses were abundant, and let me tell you the posters being voted on as I blog are…
In order to protect the red snapper population in the South Atlantic, NOAA's Fisheries Service will extend the ban of commercial and recreational fishing for the red snapper in federal waters off North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and the Atlantic coast of Florida.
President Obama announces intent to nominate Kathryn D. Sullivan, PhD, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Observation and Prediction.
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
(DALLAS December 2, 2010) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has requested the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) take the necessary steps to reissue Clean Water Act discharge permits to sewage treatment plants and industrial facilities in Texas. The TCEQ has a significant…
WASHINGTON Beazer Homes USA, Inc., a national residential homebuilder, has agreed today to pay a $925,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at its construction sites in 21 states, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. As pa...
Frank Marks, Ph.D., director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, will receive the prestigious Verner E. Suomi Award by the American Meteorological Society. Marks will receive the Suomi medallion at the AMS 91st Annual Meeting in Seattle…
By Lina Younes and Joanne OxleyJoanne: I have always been a storyteller, much to my parents chagrin, and for the past 17 years I have been telling EPA’s story. This year, when we began to talk about ways to commemorate the 40th anniversary of EPA, my first thought was that we needed to provide a…
Por Joanne Oxley y Lina YounesJoanne: Siempre he sido una cuentista para el desconsuelo de mis padres. Por los pasados 17 años, he narrado la historia de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU., la EPA, por sus siglas en inglés. Este año, cuando estábamos conversando acerca de maneras para…
(Boston, Mass. Dec. 2, 2010) - A company in Billerica that makes X-ray detection and related equipment has agreed to pay $40,000 to settle EPA claims that it violated the federal Clean Water Act.According to EPAs New England office, American Science & Engineering violated the Clean Water…
NOAA today announced $2 million in grants from its National Sea Grant College Program to prevent and control aquatic invasive species. NOAA awarded five regional grants to combat high-priority aquatic invasive species identified by natural resource managers in each region.
The NOAA National Sea Grant College Program has selected seven graduate students to join the group of Sea Grant/NOAA’s Fisheries Service Fellows earning doctoral degrees in either population dynamics or marine resource economics.
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Spain’s Ministry of Culture announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding outlining a framework to jointly identify, protect, manage and preserve underwater cultural resources of mutual interest within their respective areas of…
WASHINGTON Working with the states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with its plan to call on certain states to update their Clean Air Act implementation plans to cover greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These changes will ensure that beginning in January 2011 the…
NOAA Capt. David A. Score today assumed command of the agency's Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA's Atlantic fleet.
Permit conditions will ensure protection of groundwater at Centennial uranium site(Denver, Colorado December 3, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an injection well permit to Powertech, (USA) Inc. that will enable the company to re-inject groundwater from an aquifer pump…
NOAA's Fisheries Service is proposing to list four subspecies of ringed seals, found in the Arctic Basin and the North Atlantic, and two distinct population segments of bearded seals in the Pacific Ocean, as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Environmental News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 3, 2010) - EPA Region 7 has issued an administrative compliance order to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), directing it to correct a series of violations of a stormwater permit issued for the U.S. Highway 5...
By Jani PalmerThree months ago I blogged to parents and teachers about opportunities for kids to participate in a radon poster contest to get their design on a T-shirt to celebrate National Radon Action Month. Responses were abundant, and let me tell you the posters being voted on as I blog are…
In order to protect the red snapper population in the South Atlantic, NOAA's Fisheries Service will extend the ban of commercial and recreational fishing for the red snapper in federal waters off North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and the Atlantic coast of Florida.
President Obama announces intent to nominate Kathryn D. Sullivan, PhD, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Observation and Prediction.
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
WASHINGTON Today marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an event commemorated both by EPA staff and by outside groups and individuals in a variety of ways throughout the week. Below is a list of the activities that took place and will continue to take place ...
(DALLAS December 2, 2010) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has requested the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) take the necessary steps to reissue Clean Water Act discharge permits to sewage treatment plants and industrial facilities in Texas. The TCEQ has a significant…
WASHINGTON Beazer Homes USA, Inc., a national residential homebuilder, has agreed today to pay a $925,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at its construction sites in 21 states, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. As pa...
Frank Marks, Ph.D., director of hurricane research at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, will receive the prestigious Verner E. Suomi Award by the American Meteorological Society. Marks will receive the Suomi medallion at the AMS 91st Annual Meeting in Seattle…
By Lina Younes and Joanne OxleyJoanne: I have always been a storyteller, much to my parents chagrin, and for the past 17 years I have been telling EPA’s story. This year, when we began to talk about ways to commemorate the 40th anniversary of EPA, my first thought was that we needed to provide a…
Por Joanne Oxley y Lina YounesJoanne: Siempre he sido una cuentista para el desconsuelo de mis padres. Por los pasados 17 años, he narrado la historia de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EE.UU., la EPA, por sus siglas en inglés. Este año, cuando estábamos conversando acerca de maneras para…
(Boston, Mass. Dec. 2, 2010) - A company in Billerica that makes X-ray detection and related equipment has agreed to pay $40,000 to settle EPA claims that it violated the federal Clean Water Act.According to EPAs New England office, American Science & Engineering violated the Clean Water…
NOAA today announced $2 million in grants from its National Sea Grant College Program to prevent and control aquatic invasive species. NOAA awarded five regional grants to combat high-priority aquatic invasive species identified by natural resource managers in each region.
The NOAA National Sea Grant College Program has selected seven graduate students to join the group of Sea Grant/NOAA’s Fisheries Service Fellows earning doctoral degrees in either population dynamics or marine resource economics.
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and Spain’s Ministry of Culture announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding outlining a framework to jointly identify, protect, manage and preserve underwater cultural resources of mutual interest within their respective areas of…