The cities of Houston and Dallas purchase more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, according to EPA's Green Power Partnership.
According to EPA, many municipalities’ stormwater management plans are out of date and have not been fully implemented, and permits don’t always contain clear milestones to ensure that water quality standards would be met.
The agency has a website to answer questions about what technical solutions would be most useful to reviewing officials.
Columbia Law School has put out a call for papers for a spring 2011 symposium to address climate change effects on low-lying islands.
Boy Scouts are gathered in Fort A.P. Hill, Va., for their annual Jamboree, where Allied Waste has placed 450 trash and recycling bins to manage the cleanup.
The program establishes a baseline level of security for automation controls bearing the ISASecure certification and should help companies with procurement.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Fish and Wildlife Service are responsible for the ongoing monitoring and maintenance activities at the Morris County site.
Aquatic, which makes plastic composite bath products, invested in Dürr air emissions control technology that also provides energy from the collection and incineration of styrene.
Terrabon's AdVe technology will increase water supply at the Santa Isabel Water Treatment Plant.
Environmental professional calls for Environmental Protection newsletter and EPA to take the blinders off.
Survey correlates with findings of the American Society of Civil Engineers' "Report Card for America."
Four months after application, biochars reduced nitrous oxide emissions by up to 73 percent and lowered ammonium leaching by up to 94 percent.
The agency's second round of testing confirms that dispersants available for spill management have similar toxicities.
The company is working with Focus Wildlife, the Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to minimize the impact on birds and wildlife in the area. A bird and wildlife rehabilitation center is now operational.
University of Arkansas researchers took a look at streams and land use surveys to determine that restoration of urban streams cannot be based on the characteristics of streams in agricultural or forested settings.
EPA fined the town $15,000 and ordered the sewer line be installed as a supplemental environmental project, which is expected to cost about $86,000.
Draper Energy and Energy North did not have a spill prevention plan and illegally discharged diesel fuel last year, according to EPA.
The federal agency is providing a review of current regulation and a summary of the revisions the agency is considering on Aug. 24 and 26.
Bioremediation of ash ponds has the potential to reclaim the contaminated environment and return it to a more natural condition.
- By Bedanga Bordoloi, Etali Sarmah
The company will pay $2.1 million in penalties for discharging oily wastewater from the bilge tank of the R/V Laurence M. Gould in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.