EPA plans to move staff from a Houston regional laboratory to another facility 400 miles away.Acting EPA Region 6 Administrator David Gray met with agency employees in Houston yesterday morning toinform them about \\\"co-locating\\\" the South Central office's laboratory services to the Robert...
Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eight tribes, has announced he will be leaving the agency on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated and when the top political appointees at EPA will be required to step down. In a Jan. 13 email to Region 2 staff obta...
The visitors were Sarah Bittleman, the new EPA agricultural counselor; Ron Curry, EPA regional administrator for Region 6 that includes Louisiana; and David Gray, EPA external affairs director in Region 6. The schedule included a tour of the AgCenter Biofuels Research Center at St. ...
Zach McCue, an aide to Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), is reportedly among the top candidates to lead EPA’s Region 2 office, which oversees New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. McCue, who worked for Clean Ocean Action until joining Booker’s staff in 2014, has...
The criminal investigation was conducted by EPA’s Criminal Investigations Division. EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, EPA Region 8, the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, the North Dakota Industrial Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Depart...
EPA Region 7 deploys on-scene coordinators and Response Support Corps members as backup to Region 6 in Louisiana. EPA provides extensive cross-regional support as hazardous waste severely threatens human health and the environment. Region 7 staff also aid in search-and-rescue missions by supplying...
The former head of President Donald Trump's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts.
Waltz, a 50-year-old Trump loyalist who also served in the National Guard as a colonel, has criticized Chinese activity in the Asia-Pacific and has voiced the need for the U.S. to be ready for a potential conflict in the region. ...
"We have been working in conjunction with Region 5 for years around the global issues around sustainability and climate change, and so to know that the EPA is that interested in energy technologies can contribute to the overallclimate action planis really exciting," said Jean Redfield....
The booklet was prepared as a supplemental environmental project by Pratt Institute in conformance with a compliance agreement with Region 2-US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Some of the information in this 125-page publication was covered in the first three Clay Times columns I wrote in ...