Chairperson’s Corner

(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Riverside Industrial Park in Newark, New Jersey to the Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. After a 2009 spill of oily material from the industrial park into the Passaic River, the EPA discovered that chemicals, including benzene, mercury, chrom […]

(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has posted a new video to its national YouTube channel highlighting the role citizen science has played in raising awareness about pollution from the Tonawanda Coke Corporation facility in Tonawanda, New York. The video is part of a larger project to highlight the work of “citizen scientists” across t […]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), joined by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is recognizing the Friday before Memorial Day as “Don’t Fry Day”, to encourage Americans to take a few simple steps to protect their health and […]

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that San Diego County has met the 1997 national health-based air quality standard for smog, also known as ground-level ozone. In addition, EPA has approved the state’s plan to maintain clean air standards for the more than three million residents of the San Diego area […]

Boston, Mass. – May 10, 2013) – Blount Boats, Inc., which operates a shipbuilding and ship repair facility in Warren, R.I., has agreed to pay a $24,000 penalty and spend at least $230,000 on a clean air project to resolve EPA claims that Blount violated both federal and state clean air regulations. Blount’s facility builds and repairs vessels such as transpo […]

ATLANTA – On Monday, May 13, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will recognize the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and Delta Airlines for the successful completion of their Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Grant project […]

(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $600,000 to help the community of Villalba, Puerto Rico asses and clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop, and reuse contaminated properties. Brownfields are properties where […]