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To assist in responding to potential effects of climate change, a new strategy focuses on 40 specific actions for the national water program to take to respond to climate change.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has selected a $17.9 million cleanup plan for the South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination Superfund site in Minneapolis.
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Several Fortune 100 companies, including Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, and Xerox, are among the 96 facilities that have renewed their membership in EPA’s National Environmental Performance Track program.
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EPA is making federal environmental regulation more transparent by providing on-line information as soon as the agency begins the development of a new rule.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a new rule to clarify how to provide compensatory mitigation for unavoidable impacts to the nation's wetlands and streams.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a $20,000 settlement with Pacific Marine and Industrial Corp., for used oil and hazardous waste management violations at its power plant facility in Puerto Rico, Saipan.
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America's drinking water and wastewater facilities can now save energy and reduce their carbon footprint with expanded tools available from EPA's Energy Star Program.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has selected a $21 million final plan for Phase One of a comprehensive Superfund contaminated soil cleanup in Evansville, Ind.
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In 2007, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency awarded Energy Star status to 176 office buildings,
schools, hospitals, banks, hotels, supermarkets and college dormitories.
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Eight major companies have reported significant drops in the release of PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and related chemicals, putting industry on target to meet a 95 percent reduction goal in PFOA emissions and product content by 2010.
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EPA commends Crown Cork and Seal for demonstrating how facilities can make changes in carrying out their work in a more environmentally-protective way.
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America's largest corporations are switching to "green" power in record numbers -- pushing an already hot renewable energy industry into overdrive.
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January is National Radon Month and the EPA is encouraging everyone to test and take preventive measures to reduce the radon threat.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the recycling of certain petroleum secondary materials into fuel.
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Perma-Fix of Dayton Inc., an industrial waste processing facility based in Dayton, Ohio, has agreed to impleme nt an air pollution control program that will reduce hazardous air emissions.
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Abbott today pledged to reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2 percent on an absolute basis from 2006 to 2011.
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In 2006, EPA's climate protection programs prevented 70 million metric tons of carbon equivalent greenhouse gas emissions - up from 63 million in 2005, according to a new report released today.
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>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has filed a consent agreement and final order with Target Corp., on alleged violations of federal rules on the labeling, distribution and sale of pesticide products.
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EPA announced today that machines that generate silver ions or other substances for pesticidal purposes will be regulated as pesticides.
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Preliminary data from area air pollution monitors indicate that the Kansas City metropolitan area has recently violated the federal ozone standard.
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