Nancy Stoner has worked for EPA, the Justice Department and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Compact fluorescent lamps can be used in three-way fixtures and with dimmers. They also can last longer than incadescent bulbs when used properly.
W.R. Grace & Co., and Tyco Healthcare Group, former site owners, will work with BIM Investment and Shaffer Realty Nominee Trust, current owners, to dredge soil, treat groundwater, and perform long-term monitoring.
A memorandum of understanding outlines enhanced coordination of enforcement and compliance activities.
EPA is making the plans, which describe how companies are making their impoundments safer, available through its website.
EPA will host a conference on advancing the next generation of risk assessment in Washington, D.C.
The chemical manufacturers' group is seeking a three- to five-year reauthorization of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards.
According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, more than 24 million pounds of computer equipment was collected in 2010.
The federal agency and California want to improve water quality and resource protection in the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary.
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Pennsylvania General Energy Co. $28,960 for the illegal discharge of Airfoam HD, a surfactant, into Pine Creek in Lycoming County last March.
Former city of Detroit Health Department lead inspector Donald Patterson was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release on wire fraud charges stemming from an EPA investigation.
As a part of its commitment to transparency, the agency is reviewing confidential business information claims related to health and safety studies submitted under TSCA.
The company also will install control technologies that will reduce nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide emissions emanating from its Fairborn, Ohio plant.
SOCMA President Sloan suggested that TSCA has been effective and modernizing the law is an action that should be carefully undertaken.
Taking into account revenues for ambient monitoring systems, intermittent stack sampling, and process control using pollutant analyzers, the world market could be more than $3 billion, according to McIlvaine's latest report.
The associations hope to provide a unified voice for clean and safe water.
To settle allegations that its food processing facility in Baxter Springs overloaded the city's wastewater treatment system, Orval Kent will pay $390,000 and about $32,500 to restock the Spring River.
The agency presented awards for outstanding service and excellence in wastewater management to Rhode Island superintendents and facilities in Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut.
EPA is asking for comments on seven topics related to potential revisions of its Hazard Ranking System.
EPA has slated five listening sessions related to updating the Clean Air Act's pollution standards for power plants and refineries.