EPA Announces $96 Million WIFIA Loan to King County, Washington to Improve Water Quality in Puget Sound
SEATTLE – Today, the U.S.
EPA Delivers Results on PFAS Action Plan
WASHINGTON (January 19, 2021) — Today, the U.S.
EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations
(Seattle ) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, today announced a settlement for violations of federal laws governing the handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes.
Developer Agrees to Mitigate Impacts to Streams and Wetlands
WASHINGTON (January 19, 2021) — A developer and his companies have agreed to effectuate $900,000 in compensatory mitigation, preserve undisturbed riparian areas, conduct erosion-control work on streams, and be subject
U.S. settles with U.S. Magnesium, the largest producer of magnesium metal in the Northern Hemisphere, for alleged illegal disposal of hazardous waste at Rowley, Utah facility
SALT LAKE CITY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.
EPA Region 6 Releases 2020 Year in Review
DALLAS – (Jan. 19, 2021) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 released the 2020 Year in Review outlining major accomplishments and environmental progress over the past fiscal year (FY).
Late vessel arrivals disrupt ag exports at Port of Oakland
[caption caption="Some carriers that had refused agricultural exports last fall are no longer declining those shipments. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com"][/caption]Late vessel arrivals at the Port of Oakland have become even more frequent than they were last fall, disrupting agricultural shippers’ schedules for delivering export containers to the terminals and saddling them...
Secretary Perdue Statement on H-2A Modernization
(Washington, D.C., January 15, 2021) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued a statement applauding the Department of Labor’s final rule modernizing the H-2A visa program: