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Report Exposes Vast Amounts of Unregulated Water Pollution from Oil Refineries

January 26, 2023

EPA Must Strengthen Pollution Limits for Refineries, as Required by Federal Law, and Penalize Violations of Existing Law  For a copy of the report, click here. For audio of the… Read more

EPA Enforcement Plummets to New Low Under Biden in Key Areas

December 16, 2022

Lack of Congressional Support Contributes to Two-Decade Low in Civil Cases Against Polluters in FY 2022 For the Environmental Integrity Project’s new analysis of 20 years of EPA enforcement data,… Read more

EIP Urges EPA to Limit Benzene Pollution from Western PA Steel Plants in Response to Community Monitoring Data 

December 14, 2022

Monitoring at Residential Properties Downwind from US Steel Plants Reveals Benzene Levels that Pose Health Risks.  Pittsburgh – In a letter to EPA today, EIP urged EPA to order US… Read more

Pennsylvania Tightens Air Pollution Standards for Incinerators After Environmental Groups Push for Stronger Limits

November 14, 2022

Trash Incinerators Will Reduce Nitrogen Oxides Emissions by Hundreds of Tons Per Year Harrisburg, PA — In a major win for clean air advocates and public health, Pennsylvania on Friday… Read more

New Report: Most Power Plants Violating Federal Rules Mandating Cleanup of Toxic Coal Ash Dumps

November 3, 2022

Seven Years After EPA Coal Ash Rule, 96 Percent of Coal Plants Are Not Planning Any Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater  For the report, click here. For audio of the online… Read more

On 50th Anniversary of Clean Water Act, MD is Failing Landmark Law; Advocates Demand Improved Enforcement

October 18, 2022

Despite Promise of “Fishable, Swimmable” Waters by 1983, 80% of MD Rivers and Streams are Unsafe for Swimming   Note: A ZOOM press conference will be held at 11 am EST… Read more

After Long Delay, Groups Sue EPA for Response on Factory Farm Water Pollution Rules

October 12, 2022

Five Years Later, EPA Has Not Responded To Pollution Petition Washington, D.C. -- The Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to respond to a legal petition urging the agency to strengthen clean… Read more

Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Pollution From Eight Texas Coal Plants

October 10, 2022

Texas’s Environmental Regulator Seeks Permission To Allow Plants To Spew Excessive Amounts Of Fine Particle Pollution.   AUSTIN, Texas –  Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit today against the… Read more

Wood Pellet Manufacturer Agrees to $3.2 Million in Penalties for Louisiana Air Pollution

September 26, 2022

British-Based Drax Company Signs Settlement over Pollution Violations at its Morehouse and LaSalle BioEnergy Plants BATON ROUGE, LA. – In response to air pollution violations at a pair of wood… Read more

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BP Agrees to Pay $2.75 Million for Air Pollution Violations at Oil Refinery on Lake Michigan

September 15, 2022

Lawsuit Charged that the Century-Old Whiting, Ind., Refinery Repeatedly Violated Legal Limits on Deadly Particulate Air Pollution Hammond, Ind. – BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million for penalties and… Read more

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The administration is bringing back an Obama-era decision, later reversed by Trump, that bans new mineral leases on 225,500 acres of the Superior…

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Removing CO2 directly from the air: good. Using to to access oil reserves: bad. With pros and cons, direct air carbon capture is coming to Texas.…

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EPA determined some plant owners were placing monitoring equipment in locations that could deliver misleading results. energynews.us/2023/01/25/coa…

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One of the our new report’s conclusions is that much of the water pollution from oil refineries today is legal, because EPA and most states have…

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"Oil refineries are major sources of water pollution that have largely escaped public notice and accountability in the U.S., and too many release a…

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