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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A coalition of clean water organizations called the Chesapeake Accountability Project, along with several allies, sent a letter to the Maryland Department of the Environment on September 2, urging the…
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Agency Says Planned Terminal Must Reduce Toxic Air Pollutants By 95 Percent Austin, TX – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday denied a permit for a major offshore oil terminal…
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