By Travis Loop 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the nation’s law for protecting our most irreplaceable resource. As our team at EPA planned a variety of activities to mark the occasion, we settled on the tagline Water Is Worth It. I suppose that seems like a really broad,…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Species Profile -- Beech Bar Disease Beech bar disease is a fungal disease that kills American beech trees after being attacked by the beech scale insect ( Cryptococcus fagisuga ). The disease was Introduced accidentally on…
(San Juan, P.R.) A settlement between the United States and the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, will resolve violations of the Clean Water Act and specifically violations of its Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permit, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection…
As Tropical Storm Beryl churned along the southeastern U.S. over Memorial Day weekend, kicking up choppy seas and high surf, coastal communities got a somber reminder of the dangers posed by rip currents.
By Trey Lewis “The person who goes and the person who comes back are not the same. That’s just how it works. Even now that I’m back and everyone says I can get back to being normal, I’m still trying to figure out what exactly ‘normal’ is.” When my brother e-mailed me this after…
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Species Profile -- Burmese Python Burmese pythons are native to Southeast Asia and were imported to the U.S. for the pet trade. Wild populations became established in 2000 in Florida from animals that escaped or were intentionally…
By Amy Miller I was busy packing for a road trip and frankly didn’t hear the squawking. Not until Benjamin appeared did I notice the commotion in the trees: “Mommy, there’s two crows attacking a hawk,” said my 10-year-old son. “Really?” I answered and kept packing. “You know, I just…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing common-sense standards informed by important input from stakeholders, including industry, for new flares and process heaters at petroleum refineries which maintain important public health benefits while dramatically reducing…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $2.8 million to the cities of Newark and Jersey City to help them clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up,…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $2.8 million to the cities of Newark and Jersey City to help them clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up,…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today SABIC Innovative Plastics US LLC, and its subsidiary, SABIC Innovative Plastics Mt. Vernon, LLC, have agreed to pay an approximately $1 million civil penalty and improve leak detection…
Address given by NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco to European Parliament on sustainable fisheries
(ATLANTA – May 31, 2012) The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) today proposed an amendment to a 1999 Consent Decree that would give the City of Atlanta additional time to complete the limited…
CHICAGO (May 31, 2012) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the creation of an advisory board to support federal agencies with the implementation of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The new board, the federal…
Company Will Spend an Additional $150,000 to Repair, Restore Nine Acres of Wetlands critical to California's North Coast salmon populations SAN FRANCISCO – Humboldt County contractor Dennis Wendt of Wendt Construction today resolves a federal lawsuit with the U.S. Environmental Protection…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $1 million to Desarrollo Integral del Sur, Inc., an organization representing a coalition of Puerto Rico municipalities, for the assessment of abandoned and contaminated sites in Guanyilla, Penuelas and Ponce. The funding was…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $1 million to Desarrollo Integral del Sur, Inc., an organization representing a coalition of Puerto Rico municipalities, for the assessment of abandoned and contaminated sites in Guanyilla, Penuelas and Ponce. The funding was…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $970,000 to New York City and Ogdensburg, New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and…
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $970,000 to New York City and Ogdensburg, New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and…
Top leaders from NOAA and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) today signed a landmark agreement that will further strengthen cooperative science activities in the areas of climate, weather, oceans and coasts. The signing ceremony also marked the launch of the first four…