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GALLIGAN: Sewer rate increases are a must
Jeffersonville :: IN :: USA | 16 days ago
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On Monday, the Jeffersonville City Council will consider the finals readings of ordinance 2009-OR-43, which will dramatically increase the rates our city’s sewer customers pay during the next six years. Though this rate increase has been discussed publicly...
Tags: Jeffersonville Sanitary Sewer Board, Jeffersonville City Council, clean water, water act, rate increase, sewer rate, consent decree, EPA, combined sewer, sewer overflow, Jeffersonville, Public health, Sewerage, Tom Galligan, Jeffersonville Indiana, Water pollution, Environmental engineering, Hydraulic engineering
EPA will review 79 mountaintop coal mining permits
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility W.Va. The Obama administration on Friday stepped up efforts to curb environmental damage from surface coal mining, announcing plans to give 79 permit applications in four states additional scrutiny...Environmental Protection Agency said it wants to...
Tags: EPA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, coal mining, mining permit, clean water, water act, West Virginia, obama administration, surface mining, Obama
Fla. gets D+ on water protection
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Florida received a D-plus grade for its water quality protection, based on a Gulf Restoration Network report released Wednesday. The report graded states bordering the Gulf of Mexico on how well they implemented the Clean Water Act and protected their...
Tags: report card, Florida, Gulf Restoration Network, Mexico, clean water, water act
EPA cites businesses near Oklahoma River
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The Environmental Protection Agency has issued cease and desist orders to two Oklahoma companies for violating the federal Clean Water Act on the Oklahoma River, the agency said. EPA spokesman Dave Bary said Murphy Products and Oklahoma National Stockyards...
Tags: Oklahoma River, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma National Stockyards Co., EPA, clean water, Oklahoma County, Murphy Products Inc., water act, Environmental Protection Agency, sales tax
Gas producers fight water bill
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility A congressional bill introduced Tuesday threatens the technique that helped spur the domestic natural gas boom in the past few years, according to Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co. Hydraulic fracturing would no longer be exempt from...
Tags: hydraulic fracturing, safe drinking, drinking water, water act
House committee holds hearing on shale drilling
Denver :: CO :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility A hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee Thursday morning will focus on the art of hydraulic fracturing and, more broadly, shale gas production. Some Democrats, including Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, have charged that hydraulic fracturing...
Tags: hydraulic fracturing, Colorado Democratic, Diana DeGette, federal regulate, safe drinking, federal safe, drinking water, water act, gas drilling
Environmental News Network: EPA Evaluates Ocean Acidification as a Threat to Water Quality Under Clean Water Act
Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced steps to protect U.S. waters from the threat of ocean acidification under the Clean Water Act. Today, EPA issued a notice of data availability to be published in the Federal Register that calls...
Tags: EPA Evaluates Ocean Acidification, clean water, water act
The Olympian, Washington: Council pays federal fine in wastewater case
Council :: ID :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Idaho – City officials in Council say they have agreed to pay $11,000 in fines to settle a water pollution case with the federal government. The Environmental Protection Agency announced the settlement and fine Wednesday. The EPA accused the city of...
Tags: clean water, water act
ExxonMobil slammed for Everett spill
Everett :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Prosecutors said yesterday that they had charged ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. with a criminal violation of the federal Clean Water Act in the January 2006 spill, which coated the Island End River and Mystic River with a blue-green sheen. Under a plea agreement...
Tags: Everett, ExxonMobil Pipeline Co., ExxonMobil Corp., fuel spill, federal clean, criminally violating, clean water, water act
EPA cites Navy for clean water violations
Tamuning :: Guam | 12 months ago
Credibility Environmental Protection Agency recently cited the Navy in Guam for several violations of the federal Clean Water Act. The lack of certain permits for construction sites, unpermitted discharges into the island's waters and a lack of stormwater controls...
Tags: Navy Water Treatment Plant, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, clean water, water act
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