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EPA Proposes ‘No Change’ to Carbon Monoxide Standard

February 4, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday announced it is proposing to keep the current national air quality standards for carbon monoxide (pdf), while it gathers more information from monitoring carbon monoxide levels in selected metropolitan areas. According to the agency, the current standard is protective of public health, ... Read more »

U.S. Oil to Pay $230,000 Fine to Settle Joint Enforcement Action

February 3, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

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 leak detection system, according to a joint consent decree by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. ... Read more »

Residents Ask for More Time to Study 3M Wastewater Permit

January 30, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

People living near a 3M facility that releases more than 5 million gallons of wastewater into the Mississippi River each day are asking for more time to review and comment on a new permit regulating how that wastewater is treated, according to the Star-Tribune. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: EPA Issues Cleanup Order to Honolulu Landfill Operator

January 28, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued an order to Waste Management, Inc. to take immediate steps to clean up recent releases of waste and contaminated storm water and prevent future releases from the Waimanalo Gulch Landfill on Oahu. Waste Management, the contractor operating the landfill for the City ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Second Largest U.S. Refinery Fined $5.3 Million for Air Violations

January 27, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced yesterday that Hovensa LLC, owner of the second largest petroleum refinery in the U.S., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of more than $5.3 million and spend more than $700 million on new pollution controls at its St. Croix, ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: EPA Asks TCEQ to Postpone Las Brisas Permit

January 26, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

On Monday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) received a letter (pdf) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requesting that the TCEQ not approve an air permit for the Las Brisas Energy Center, near Corpus Christi. The letter from the EPA’s Deputy Regional Administrator, Lawrence Starfield, says the EPA ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Court Grants Brief Boiler Rule Extension to EPA

January 25, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

A federal District Court judge in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 issued an order extending by 30 days the Environmental Protection Agency’s deadline to issue emission standards for large and small boilers and solid waste and sewage sludge incinerators. EPA said in a statement it was disappointed that the extension ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Refrigeration Company Pleads Guilty to Dumping Ammonia

January 23, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

A Massachusetts refrigeration company has pleaded guilty (pdf) to a federal charge that a company technician contaminated a New Hampshire wastewater facility by pouring gallons of ammonia down a drain while servicing an industrial refrigeration system in 2008, the Concord Monitor reports. American Refrigeration Co. Inc., headquartered in Andover, Mass., ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Dept of Justice Sues Texas Driller to Enforce EPA Order

January 21, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

The United States Department of Justice filed a complaint on Tuesday against a Texas oil company in federal district court, seeking enforcement of a Dec. 7, 2010, emergency order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against two related oil drilling companies. In the order, the EPA determined that Range ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Indiana Utility Settles Clean Air Claims for $600 Million

January 19, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) has agreed to invest approximately $600 million in pollution control technology to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act, according to the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The proposed settlement (pdf) covers all of NIPSCO’s coal-fired power plants, which are located ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Two New England Shipyards Settle EPA Claims

January 18, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

Two New England shipyards have agreed to pay penalties to settle claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they violated federal environmental laws. Rose’s Oil Service, a shipyard and fuel oil distributor in Gloucester, Mass., was cited for violations of federal water and oil pollution prevention laws. The company ... Read more »

EPA Revokes Mountaintop Mining Permit

January 14, 2011October 18, 2016 by Environmental Leader

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that it is revoking a water permit for one of the nation’s largest mountaintop removal mine projects because it would pollute water, harm wildlife and Appalachian communities in West Virginia. EPA’s assistant administrator for water, Peter S. Silva told the Associated Press that the agency ... Read more »

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