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09.30.15 -- EPA Proposes New Protections For International Hazardous Waste Shipments
2015-09-29 02:54:34| pollutiononline Home Page
09/30/15 Pollution Online Newsletter
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EPA Issues Supplemental Funds to clean up Brownfields properties.
2015-09-28 14:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA announced ~$13.2 million in supplemental funding to help communities by cleaning up contaminated Brownfields properties. Supplemental funding of Revolving Loan Funding (RLF) will be given to 31 RLF grantees and help 44 communities carry out cleanup and redevelopment projects. In addition to creating jobs, these projects will protect health of people and environment. Often, RLF funding provides last key piece needed to make property cleanup and reuse happen.
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EPA has a new plan to prevent cheating on auto emissions tests
2015-09-26 20:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Days after Volkswagen admitted that half a million cars it sold in the U.S. contained software enabling them to evade clean air laws, top Environmental Protection Agency officials said they are planning to toughen emissions testing for all automakers. The EPA now plans to examine vehicles for so-called defeat devices. In a letter released Friday morning, the EPA said that federal regulations allow the agency to "test or require testing on any vehicle at a designated location, using driving cycles...
EPA Puts US Carmakers on Notice for Potential Emissions Rigging
2015-09-26 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sputnik: The US government regulator that accused Volkswagen of gaming emissions tests with illicit software has notified car manufacturers in the United States it will go after them next. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered the German company last week to recall 482,000 of its diesel-engine vehicles whose emissions kits were fitted with so-called defeat devices. The gadgets in the cars were found to have curbed emissions results by up to 40 times the real greenhouse gas levels. "Today...
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Top EPA official says now time act climate change
2015-09-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy reiterated the words of Pope Francis, saying Friday the time to act on global climate change is now and everyone has a moral responsibility to take action. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy reiterated the words of Pope Francis, saying Friday the time to act on global climate change is now and everyone has a moral responsibility to take action. The nation's top environmental regulator reiterated the words of...
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