We appear to have gotten lucky in the January 2014 West Virginia chemical spill – #ChemicalSpill
By Richard Denison Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Lead Senior Scientist. Readers may recall that I blogged extensively about the January[…]
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EPA Updates Standards to Reduce Methane Pollution from Landfills – #Methane #EPA
By Peter Zalzal Landfill Gas Extraction — photo by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (This post was co-written by[…]
Read moreSierra Club: Interior-EPA Legislation is “Pile of #Toxic Legislative Waste”
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation funding the Department of Interior and the EPA that is laden[…]
Read moreColstrip Units 1 and 2 retirement final, 5 million tons of #carbon pollution to end
Puget Sound Energy and Talen Energy reached a historic agreement with Sierra Club and Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) to[…]
Read moreGroups Call on Feds to Investigate Possible Civil Rights Violations in #Flint and Detroit
Representatives from Flint and Detroit, as well as state-wide and national groups, are calling on federal agencies, including the Environmental[…]
Read moreSierra Club Response to EPA’s Release of Selenium Water Quality Criterion
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggested a new voluntary criterion water quality standard for selenium, a harmful pollutant produced[…]
Read moreHealth and Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules
The American Lung Association and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) intervened on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)[…]
Read moreActivists Stage Creative Demonstration at EPA Headquarters: Call for Agency to Veto Controversial Spruce Mine Permit
On Monday, activists with the Rainforest Action Network staged a creative demonstration at the EPA headquarters to compel the agency[…]
Read moreAmericans Call For Tighter Regulation of Hydraulic ‘Fracking’ in Oil and Gas Drilling
Overflow Crowds of Concerned Residents Attend EPA Public Meetings across the Country Thousands of Americans are calling on the Environmental[…]
Read moreEnvironmental, Science Coalition calls on President to Raise Fuel Efficiency Standards to At Least 60 MPG by 2025
As the deadline nears for the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency to issue their first decisions on[…]
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