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Pollution is harmful contamination of the environment. Here are up-to-date articles on pollution and efforts to reduce pollution. We also include information on environmental enforcement against polluters by governmental bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and regulation to control pollution.
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Proposes Limit on Pa. Power Plant After NJ Complaint
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions from a Pennsylvania power plant, in response to a ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Orders Doe Run to Clean Up Former Lead Mine
Mining company Doe Run Resources Corp. and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ (MDNR) Division of State Parks have agreed ...
The U.S. Capital Wonders: What’s in Your Water?
EPA Proposes 30 New Contaminants to Regulate in Public Water Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted a proposal of 30 currently ...
Environmental Enforcement: Tennessee Valley Authority to Pay $450,000 to Settle Alleged Clean Air Violations
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations made by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
EPA Announces Power Plant Mercury Standards
National standards on power plants' emissions of mercury, arsenic and several other toxic air pollutants were announced yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
These proposed standards would require many power plants to install widely ...
EPA Adds Ten Superfund Sites, Proposes 15
Ten Superfund sites have been added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL), and the agency is proposing 15 more additions.
The ...
Former GM Pollution Settlement Soars Past $800m
The remains of the old General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay $51 million to settle environmental liabilities at 34 sites in ...
Environmental Enforcement: PowerTrain to Pay $2m for Illegal Engine Imports
PowerTrain Inc. of Mississippi is to pay a civil penalty of $2 million to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department ...
Report: Fracking’s ‘Radioactive Wastewater’ Discharged into Drinking Water Supplies
The natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking poses far more danger to the environment and health than previously understood, the ...
EPA Revises Boiler and Incinerator Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued industrial boiler pollution rules that it says will see industry incur only half the expense as regulations the ...
Environmental Enforcement: Biomass Plants Fined $835,000 For Clean Air Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District have settled claims brought against two biomass power plants in California's Central Valley, the agencies announced yesterday.
The companies have ...
Ecuadorian Judge Hits Chevron with $8.6bn Ruling
Chevron has been slapped with an $8.6 billion penalty, in what is suspected to be the largest environmental fine in history – and the amount ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Releases Utility Coal Ash Safety Plans
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday released action plans developed by 15 electric power plants describing measures they are taking to make their coal ash impoundments safer.
The coal ash plans are a ...
Environmental Enforcement: Cement Maker to Pay $1.4 Million Penalty
Cemex, Inc., one of the largest cement producers in the United States, has agreed to pay a $1.4 million penalty for Clean Air Act violations at its cement plant in Fairborn, Ohio, the ...
Environmental Enforcement: $4 Million Penalty Imposed in 2003 Staten Island Barge Explosion
The owner and operator of a barge that exploded eight years ago, killing two workers and releasing 50,000 barrels of gasoline into the Arthur Kill Waterway, in Staten Island, New York, has agreed ...
Why Cap and Trade Is Good for Environmental Marketing
From birth to death, humans are living on borrowed time. Every other animal on the planet is content to use the solar budget ...
U.S. Oil to Pay $230,000 Fine to Settle Joint Enforcement Action
U.S. Oil & Refining Co. has agreed to pay a $230,000 fine for violations of two federal air statutes and spend an additional $746,000 in plant improvements to reduce emissions and upgrade its ...
EPA to Limit Perchlorates in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to introduce first-time regulations limiting the amount of several hazardous chemicals in drinking water, the agency ...
Residents Ask for More Time to Study 3M Wastewater Permit
People living near a 3M facility that releases more than 5 million gallons of wastewater into the Mississippi River each day are asking for ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Issues Cleanup Order to Honolulu Landfill Operator
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued an order to Waste Management, Inc. to take immediate steps to clean up recent releases ...
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
