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EPA Adds 2 Hazardous Waste Sites to NPL and proposes 6 more.

2015-04-01 14:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

To reduce health impacts and encourage economic revitalization, EPA added 2 hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and environment to National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA also proposes adding 6 more sites. According to EPA's Mathy Stanislaus, "Superfund cleanups help advance the economic well-being of communities by turning contaminated properties into productive community resources that can enhance property values, create jobs and broaden tax bases."

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EPA Reached Settlement with MTU over alleged CAA violations.

2015-04-01 14:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

As announced by U.S. EPA and Department of Justice, MTU America Inc (MTU), subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG, will implement auditing program to ensure proper emissions testing and compliance with federal emission standards for its heavy-duty, diesel, non-road engines as part of settlement to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations. Complaint alleges MTU sold 895 non-road, heavy-duty diesel engines without valid certificates of conformity.

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EPA will require weed-resistance restrictions on glyphosate herbicide

2015-04-01 13:55:12| Chemicals - Topix.net

U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world's most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of weeds resistant to the chemical, Reuters has learned. The Environmental Protection Agency confirmed it will require a weed resistance management plan for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's immensely popular Roundup weed-killer.

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EPA Chief: Keystone XL Wouldn't Be a 'Disaster' for Climate

2015-03-31 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hill: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the Keystone XL pipeline would not be disastrous for the climate. Gina McCarthys comments on Monday came despite her agencys position that low oil prices could mean that Keystone will have more of an impact on the climate than previously thought. Politicos Mike Allen asked McCarthy if Keystone would be a disaster for the climate. No, McCarthy responded at an event Politico hosted, I don't think that any one issue is a disaster...

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EPA chief says Keystone Pipeline wouldn't climate 'disaster'

2015-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mashable: The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a Washington audience on Monday that building the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico would not, by itself, constitute a "climate disaster." Many opponents of the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico for export, argue that it would lead to the emissions of enough planet-warming greenhouse gases that it would be game over for efforts to constrain the amount...

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