Supervisor urges EPA audit of Ryan Creek sewer project

EPA issues new ballast rules

Published: March 29, 2013
Tags: American Great Lakes Ports Association, ballast, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, National Research Council, Steve Fisher

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided a pathway to U.S. waters for invasive species that damage ecosystems and cost the economy billions of dollars.

More than half of streams in ‘poor’ shape, EPA says

Published: March 26, 2013
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Streams

More than half of the country’s rivers and streams are in poor biological health, unable to support healthy populations of aquatic insects and other creatures, according to a new nationwide survey released Tuesday.

EPA to tighten standards for soot pollution

Published: December 14, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, President Obama

In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration will impose a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution.

Appeals court rejects challenge to clean air rule

Published: July 20, 2012
Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Clean Air Act, David Sentelle, Douglas Ginsburg, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA

A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a tough new clean air requirement limiting sulfur dioxide emissions.

EPA creates Great Lakes protection advisory board

Published: May 31, 2012
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is creating a board to help federal agencies carry out two Great Lakes protection programs.

EPA accepting Great Lakes grant applications

Published: April 22, 2012
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, pollution, runoff

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will award $20 million in grants this year for projects to help the Great Lakes.

Companies to pay for air violations at Wis. plant

Published: March 29, 2012
Tags: Clean Air Act, Coltec Industries, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, pollution

Two companies have agreed to pay a $280,000 civil penalty and spend $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged air violations at a Wisconsin plant.

EPA to reduce new power plants’ carbon pollution

Published: March 27, 2012
Tags: coal, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, greenhouse gases, pollution, power plant, Sierra Club
Comments: 1

The Obama administration forged ahead on Tuesday with the first-ever limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants, ignoring protests from industry and Republicans who have said the regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal, the dominant U.S. energy source.

Court sides with property owners over EPA

Published: March 21, 2012
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Supreme Court, wetlands

The Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in a property rights case, ruling they can go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day.