EPA rejects Colorado permits for Weld County oil complex, citing problems in ozone fight
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Elizabeth Duan | February 7, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected four Colorado-issued air pollution permits at Weld County oil and gas processing sites, saying the state must rewrite the permits to ensure ozone-causing chemicals are burned off before hitting the atmosphere. Environmental advocates ...
Radioactive waste landfill processing highly enriched uranium for decades
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Elizabeth Duan | February 6, 2024
Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...
Feds Slam Intervention Bids In BLM Grazing Analysis Dispute
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Elizabeth Duan | February 5, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management and green groups have asked a D.C. federal court to reject efforts by Idaho, Utah and a coalition of agriculture industry groups to intervene in the environmentalists’ lawsuit challenging the grazing allotments… Read the PEER Story… ...
Lawsuit probes EPA decision in allowing Oak Ridge landfill
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Elizabeth Duan |
Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...
EPA tackles ‘forever chemicals’ with hazardous waste law
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Elizabeth Duan | February 1, 2024
EPA released a rule that would list nine PFAS as “hazardous constituents” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, an action that could lead to cleanups of disposal and waste management facilities. RCRA gives EPA the authority to regulate hazardous wastes the moment ...
EPA Proposes To List Nine PFAS As RCRA ‘Hazardous Constituents’
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Elizabeth Duan |
EPA is proposing a rule that would list nine PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” moving to more than double the number of the substances it previously pledged to add to the RCRA list that will give regulators the authority to require cleanup ...