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EPA Defers GHG Rules for Biomass and Biogenic Sources

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is granting an exemption under its controversial greenhouse-gas requirements that will provide a three-year reprieve for biomass facilities that burn wood chips and other biomass products to generate electricity. The deferral, which takes effect in July, came after members of Congress put pressure on the ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Domtar Paper to Pay $3.2 Million Superfund Costs

Domtar Paper Co. has entered into a proposed consent decree (pdf) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the Plymouth Wood Treating Plant Superfund site near Plymouth, North Carolina. Domtar has agreed to reimburse the Hazardous Substance Superfund for the $3.2 million in response costs that the EPA ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: EPA Proposes $17 Million Settlement for LA Superfund Site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to enter into settlements with 275 small parties for their contributions to the Operating Industries, Inc. (OII), Superfund Site. The OII site is a 190-acre site in Monterey Park, Calif., about 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The parties will collectively pay more than ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: City of Keokuk to Reduce Sewage Discharges

The City of Keokuk, Iowa has reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve its combined sewer system over the next 20 years, reducing discharges of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage to the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Under an administrative compliance order, the ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Paint Company Settles for $1.075 Million

An Orange County-based paint company will pay $1 million to six district attorney’s offices in California — including San Diego County — to settle a lawsuit alleging illegal transportation and mismanagement of hazardous waste and materials, The settlement with Vista Paint Corp. was entered Monday in Orange County Superior Court ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Drew University Hazardous Waste Fine

Drew University has agreed to pay $145,000 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to properly manage hazardous waste at its Madison, N.J. campus. In 2007, the university had self-reported violations to EPA and and reported that it had corrected the violations. But, during its 2009 investigation of the ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections Settles EPA Suit

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sued two state agencies in Pennsylvania over emission violations attributed to coal-fired boilers at four state prisons. The U.S. Department of Justice filed the suit on behalf of EPA last Friday in U.S. District Court against the Department of Corrections and Department of General ... Read more »

EPA Takeover of GHG Permitting in Texas Put On Hold

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to take over greenhouse gas permitting and oversee climate rules in Texas has been temporarily blocked by a federal court, making the Lone Star State the only place where businesses cannot apply for greenhouse gas permits that the Obama administration now requires, The New ... Read more »

Texas Refiners Scramble to Comply with EPA Ultimatum

Last month EPA told dozens of Texas refiners and chemical and plastic makers to begin taking steps to fix flaws in their air pollution permits or else. The threat apparently worked. All but three of the 74 companies have informed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they will bring the ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Cam-Or Superfund Settlement

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Justice, Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the Office of the Indiana Attorney General have reached a proposed settlement with 13 potentially responsible parties who will pay for and complete the final phase of cleanup at the Cam-Or Superfund site in Westville, Ind. ... Read more »


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