Toxic Cleanup
The University of California at Davis will pay $14 million toward cleaning up the Laboratory for Energy-related Health Research/Old Campus Landfill Superfund site in Davis, in an agreement with the U.S. EPA and California.
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Federal Judge Tosses Bid to Clean Up Algae Blooms
Despite an ongoing algae-pollution problem in the western Ohio portion of Lake Erie, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that environmental groups have not established a Clean Water Act violation on the part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreFifth Circuit Finds No Easy Answer to Power Plant Pollution
A Fifth Circuit panel appeared flummoxed Wednesday over the EPA’s failure to regulate and strip pollutants from power plant wastewater in its latest guidelines.
Read moreSenate Panel Hears Debate Over EPA Transparency Rule Plan
Scientists and lawmakers were divided Wednesday as they debated the possible benefits and pitfalls behind the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to implement a proposed transparency rule for scientific study.
Read moreDueling Challenge to Emissions Rule Fought at DC Circuit
Are regulatory limits on nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants too severe or too charitable? The D.C. Circuit is poised to have the last word after a three-hour hearing Wednesday.
Read morePending EPA Rule Change Already Shaping Enviro Regulation Proposals
A controversial EPA rule proposal from April is already having an impact on regulatory changes across the agency despite the fact it has not gone into effect.
Read moreEPA Names Former Koch Industries Figure Chief of Research
The Environmental Protection Agency has named David Dunlap, a former chemical engineer with Koch Industries, as its deputy chief of research and development, according to the EPA’s chief of staff.
Read moreEPA Dissolving Office of Science Advisor
An office inside the Environmental Protection Agency that provides scientific research informing policy on public health and environmental regulations will soon be shuttered in order to cut back on redundancies at the agency.
Read moreWhite House Finalizes Plan to Ease Methane Rules
The Trump administration finalized plans Tuesday to unwind regulations aimed at preventing methane from leaking into the atmosphere.
Read moreEPA’s Top Watchdog Quits Amid Probes of Agency’s Leadership
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog office announced his retirement Tuesday, leaving subordinates to pursue ongoing ethics probes involving former EPA chief Scott Pruitt and his team.
Read moreOverhaul of Outdated Pollution Rules Set to Begin in March
A federal judge gave regulators less than six months Friday to begin the process of overhauling pollution standards that have been left in place for over a decade.
Read moreWildlife Refuge Opens on Colorado Superfund Site, Despite Lawsuit
By dawn on Saturday, Sept. 15, a dozen cars were parked at the newly opened Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge and at least as many hikers wandered down trails surrounding the site of a former-nuclear weapons factory near Arvada, Colorado.
Read moreFormer EPA Chief Pruitt Denies Getting Improper Gifts, Income
In a financial disclosure report released by the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, former administrator Scott Pruitt denied that he received gifts or other financial perks while overseeing the agency.
Read moreOregon, Feds Say Higher Water Standards for Fish 12 Years Away
For over two decades, Oregon has regulated thermal pollution in rivers and streams using illegal standards. But at a hearing Tuesday, the federal and state governments said it will take another 12 years to come up with revised standards to protect threatened and endangered fish.
Read moreDC Circuit Pressed to Set EPA Straight on Air Quality Assessments
Questions about how the Environmental Protection Agency interprets the data it uses to set caps on sulfur dioxide pollution took center stage at the D.C. Circuit Tuesday as attorneys for environmentalist groups sought to convince the judges the agency has it all wrong.
Read moreEPA Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Rules on Methane
The Trump administration released a proposal on Tuesday to roll back Obama-era rules designed to reduce leaks of climate-changing methane from oil and gas facilities.
Read moreDamaged Wetlands
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reached a $5.4 million settlement Wednesday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for damaging 8 acres of wetlands in Granada Hills.
Read moreEPA Watchdog Faults Agency Over Pruitt Security Costs
The Environmental Protection Agency failed to ducment why former administrator Scott Pruitt needed more an $3,5 million in security spending in 2017, a federal watchdog said in a report released Tuesday.
Read moreMonsanto on Defense in Dual Ninth Circuit Hearings
Monsanto products factored in two appeals heard Wednesday by a Ninth Circuit panel reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a dicamba-based herbicide and possible government complicity in PCB contamination of state waterways.
Read moreDC Circuit Rules EPA Dropped Ball on Coal Ash Storage Rules
In another defeat for President Trump’s pro-fossil fuels agenda, the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday found the Environmental Protection Agency has failed for years to issue and enforce adequate rules for the storage of toxic coal ash.
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