karl brooks news
Your Search Returned 16 tagged news reports
US regulators criticize Iowa pollution runoff plan
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility
Iowa (AP) Federal regulators say Iowa's plan to stem runoff pollution doesn't have an adequate system to measure results. The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter Thursday that state officials made a mistake in the Nutrient Reduction
Tags:
EPA spars with Kansas over power plant
Wichita :: KS :: USA | over 1 year ago
Credibility
The long, epic fight over whether to build a coal-fired power plant in western Kansas has taken yet another strange twist:A federal agency is accusing a state agency of telling tall tales to the highest court in Kansas.The battle over
Tags:
Bannister plant avoids Superfund list
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | over 1 year ago
Credibility
A new agreement that lets the owner of the nuclear bomb parts plant and the General Services Administration avoid Superfund designation for the time being has been hammered out with the government regulators...Regulators described it as a big step
Tags:
Statehouse Live: Sierra Club wants EPA to prevent construction of coal-fired plant
Topeka :: KS :: USA | 2 years ago
Credibility
Topeka Environmentalists have called on the EPA to prevent construction of a proposed 895-megawatt coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas. In a letter to EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks, the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club says that
Tags:
Water-ski champ hit wake at 100mph
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | over 2 years ago
Credibility
A British water-ski champion died after hitting a boat's wake at more than 100mph in what a coroner ruled today was a tragic accident. Karl Brooks, 25, from Wickford, Essex, was training on Lake Mead near Las Vegas in June 2007 when he fell from his
Tags:
EPA Region 7 and 8 Host Meeting with State Agriculture Directors in Denver
EPA officials today hosted a meeting with the directors of state agriculture departments of Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The meeting, held at EPA’s Region 8
Tags:
Josh Svaty Selected as Senior Adviser to EPA’s Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks
Today, EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks announced the selection of Josh Svaty, who just served as Secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, to be his senior adviser. “I look forward to working closely
Tags:
City of Keokuk, Iowa, Agrees to Address Discharges of Untreated Sewage to Soap Creek and Mississippi River
EPA Region 7 and the City of Keokuk, Iowa, have reached an agreement by which the city will improve its combined sewer system over the next 20 years, reducing discharges of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage to the
Tags:
South Dakota Men Agree to Civil Settlement for Unpermitted Excavation, Dredging Near Missouri River in Dixon County, Neb.
Two South Dakota men have agreed to a civil settlement with EPA Region 7 in which one of the men will pay $65,000 for using earth moving equipment to perform unauthorized excavation and dredging work that impacted nearly 22 acres of wetlands
Tags:
Barker: EPA rift may reunite Rep. Mike Simpson, Brooks
Wichita :: KS :: USA | over 2 years ago
Credibility
A s Rep. Mike Simpson is preparing to rein in what he and other Republicans consider the excesses of the Environmental Protection Agency, he may soon run into another former Idaho legislator. Simpson is expected to chair the Interior and Environment
Tags:
