Each of the six states sharing the Chesapeake Bay watershed are mostly on track to cut nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loadings to the estuary by 2025, EPA Region 3 Administrator Shawn Garvin announced. However, Pennsylvania and Delaware fell short on their efforts to curb nitrogen loadings, ...
"Region III has concluded that there is at present insufficient data on which to base a categorical designation of currently unregulated stormwater discharges from commercial, industrial and institutional sites in the Region," Regional Administrator Shawn Garvin wrote in his response to the petition ...
"We must ensure that facilities are complying with required annual reporting of what chemicals they use and what they are releasing into the environment," said EPA Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore. "People have a right to know about any toxic chemicals in their communities, especially those ...
An executive assistant for Chris Hladick, the regional administrator for the Pacific Northwest and Alaska Region told the Bellingham Herald on Friday that Ericksen was to be the senior adviser to the Region 10 administrator in Seattle. On Monday, Ericksen said that information was incorrect…. ...
Nonprofit leaders from across the country with EPA grants and contracts describe weeks of a communication blackout. Bosworth said her local contacts at the EPA's Region 8 office stopped responding within days ofPresident Donald Trump'sinauguration. She and her partnering organization, Montana State ...
“Facilities that use hazardous materials like anhydrous ammonia have an obligation to follow regulations designed to protect our communities and environment from potentially catastrophic consequences of accidents,” said Ed Kowalski, director of EPA Region Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division....
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is extending until Dec. 2 the timeline to decide whether to proceed with proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.
“We have a sense of urgency,” said Michael Montgomery, director of the EPA’s Region 9 Superfund division, at the meeting. He said he hoped Malibu officials would approve use of the site within 24 to 48 hours. Tara Fitzgerald, an EPA incident commander, told those at the meeting tha...
If the federal government doesn't put in the same effort, state cleanup programs will have to decide if they'll step in to pick up the slack, added Nakayama, who served as EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “Som...
facilities. Until recently, the conventional wisdom had been that climate change regulation would arrive via new legislation, probably based on a "cap and trade" approach, rather than the 1970s' Clean Air Act, enacted to fight air pollution, such as smog, on a region-by-region basis. ...