All posts tagged "EPA"

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  EPA Begins Process to Regulate Toxic, Widely Used Chemicals

  WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a list of toxic chemicals that will be the first reviewed under a recently enacted law that gives regulators increased authority to ban substances shown to endanger human...

  • Posted November 29, 2016
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  EPA Fines Pfizer in Puerto Rico for Not Disclosing Chemical Information

  SAN JUAN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC $190,000 for not disclosing chemical information at its plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, as required by the federal Clean Air Act’s chemical accident prevention, chemical...

  • Posted October 26, 2016
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  EPA Reaches Legal Agreements to Close 2 Landfills in Puerto Rico

  SAN JUAN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached agreements with the municipalities of Cayey and Arroyo to permanently close their municipal solid waste landfills, improve landfill operations, make major improvements to recycling, and introduce composting...

  • Posted September 29, 2016
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  EPA Adds Dorado Site to Federal Superfund List

  SAN JUAN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added the Dorado Groundwater Contamination Site in Dorado to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the site revealed chemical contamination that...

  • Posted September 7, 2016
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  EPA documents expose negligence regarding Puerto Rico’s dump crisis

  P.R.'s dumps "present an imminent threat to human health and the environment"

  • Posted August 23, 2016
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  EPA Moves to Regulate Climate-Warming Airliner Pollution

  To use authority under Clean Air Act to impose limits on emissions

  • Posted July 25, 2016
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  Environmental Group: New EPA Landfill Regulations to Be Ignored

  SAN JUAN – The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new set of landfill regulations to  reduce methane gas emissions that the Puerto Rico Limpio environment group believes will be ignored. The changes are part of President Obama’s...

  • Posted July 19, 2016
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  $32B for Interior Department and EPA spending bill faces veto threat

  The Interior and EPA funding bill is part of the $1 trillion-plus budget

  • Posted July 13, 2016
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  AP Sources: VW to Pay Near $10.2B to Settle Emissions Claims

  Money mainly to compensate 482,000 owners of cars with engines programmed to cheat on emissions tests

  • Posted June 24, 2016
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  Hundreds Demonstrate Against Monsanto

  Company assures its herbicide product is safe

  • Posted May 21, 2016