December
12-31 New York City Univiersities Will
Help Area High Schools Become Better Environmental Stewards
12-31 EPA Cites Alcoa Subsidiary
for Hazardous Waste Violations
12-19 EPA Administrator Leavitt
Applauds New York City's Efforts to Protect Drinking Water
12-19 EPA Proposes Quality of
Life Standards to Minimize the Impacts of the Hudson River Cleanup on
Local Communities
12-11 EPA Continues Successful Enforcement Program Nationally
and In Region 2
12-04 EPA Notifies New York State of
Regions with Smog Problems
12-04 EPA Announces Plan to Designate
All of New Jersey as Having a Smog Problem
12-03 EPA Regional Administrator Visits
Pfizer Barceloneta to Support Company's Environmental Efforts
12-02 Administrator Leavitt Outlines
Plans and Aspirations for the Agency Speech highlights common sense
approach; previews 500-day air-quality action plan
November
11-26 Public Asked to Comment on the
Future of the Port of New York and New Jersey
11-25 EPA Fines Atlantic Health System
Inc. For Failure To Properly Manage Hazardous Waste
11-24 EPA and Partners Demonstrate New
Technology that Turns Dredged Material into Cement
11-19 EPA Proposes to Fine Ponce Hospital
for Illegal Discharge
11-18 EPA Inspects New Jersey Marinas
for Fuel Spill Plans -- Two Marinas Charged with Violations
11-17 EPA Agrees to New York-Presbyterian
Hospital Environmental Self Audit
11-12 EPA Removes Hazardous Waste From
Stillwater, NY Facility
11-02 EPA Fines Vassar College For Violating
Hazardous Waste Regulations
October
10-30 EPA Files Complaint Against Clarkson
University for Hazardous Waste Violations
10-29 EPA Issues Complaint Against Two
Brooklyn Businesses For Underground Storage Tank Violations
10-27 In Settlement With EPA, New Jersey
City University Agrees To Waste Reduction Program
10-24 To Protect Children's Health, EPA
Gives $148,000 to Corning-Painted Post Schools to Reduce School Bus
Emissions
10-24 EPA Takes Action To Protect Puerto
Rico's Shrinking Wetlands
10-22 Mid-Hudson Region Launches Best
Workplaces for Commuters IBM Named to EPA National Corporate Honor Roll
10-22 Toms River Superfund Site Entering
Second Phase of Cleanup
10-20
Federal and State Agencies Will Clean Up and Revitalize the Lower Passaic
River
10-20 EPA Fines Nassau Health Care Corporation For Violating
Hazardous Health Waste Regulations
10-17 Fowler High Students Participate
in Global Water Quality Monitoring Effort
10-17 Jersey City Students Participate
in Global Water Quality Monitoring Effort
10-16 EPA, TransOptions, and Assemblyman
DeCroce Recognize Pfizer as one of New Jersey's Best Workplaces for
Commuters
10-09 EPA, New York State and Riverkeeper
Announce End to Boat Sewage Discharges to Hudson River
10-09 EPA Files Complaint For Asbestos
Violations in Puerto Rico
10-01 Refineries to Reduce Annual Emissions
by More than 3,900 Tons
10-01 EPA and Seton Hall University Sign
Comprehensive Environmental Self-Audit Agreement
September
09-30 Air Quality Index Forecasts Now
Available Year-Round: EPA, Major U.S. Cities Now Predicting Particle
Pollution Level
09-30 U.S. Announces the Settlement of
Superfund Case to Aid Cleanup of the Li Tungsten Site Glen Cove, New
York
09-29 EPA Poised to Begin Long-term Cleanup
at Newburgh Superfund Site
09-24 EPA Responds to Public Comments
on Navy Workplans for Investigation of Eastern End of Vieques
09-18 Events Celebrating the New
York / New Jersey Harbor Planned for National
Estuaries Day
09-23 EPA Celebrates National Estuaries
Day
09-17 EPA Releases List of Candidate
Sites for Sediment Processing/Transfer Facilities
09-15 EPA to Collect Fine From Lilly
Del Caribe, Inc.
09-08 Two Industrial Facilities Join
Voluntary Program To Make Environmental Improvements
09-04 Peconic River Sportsman's Club
Adopts EPA's Best Management Practices for Lead Shot
09-04 EPA, Marine Industry Leaders and
Long Island Environmentalists Announce Agreement Promoting Cleaner Outboard
Engines
09-02 EPA Finalizes Plan for Community
Involvement in the Design and Cleanup of the Hudson River
August
08-22 EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan for
Roebling Superfund Site
08-14 EPA & GE Reach Agreement On
Hudson River Cleanup
08-07 EPA Regional Administrator Kenny
Honors Performance Track Members
08-07 EPA Announces More Stringent Environmental
Requirements Construction Projects in Puerto Rico
08-07 EPA Proposes Interim Cleanup Plan
For Galloway's Superfund Site
08-06 EPA Seeks $28,000 Penalty From
NY Hazardous Waste Transporter
08-06 EPA Agrees To Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Environmental Self-Audit
July
07-28 Glens Falls To Receive EPA Grant
To Assess Brownfields Sites
07-24 Glen Cove To Receive EPA Grant
To Assess Brownfields Sites
07-17 EPA Issues Complaints UMDNJ and
Kean University For Hazardous Waste
07-15 EPA Removes Pepe Field Superfund
Site From NPL
07-14 EPA and New York Association of Pupil
Transportation Sign Agreement to Reduce Emissions from Thousands of
Diesel School Buses
07-09 EPA fines seven dry cleaners in
New Jersey and New York
07-02 EPA Presents $700,000 Grant to
Protect Susquehanna Watershed
07-02
EPA's Helicopter Monitors Beaches as Fourth of July Approaches
07-02 Businessmen Charged In Scheme
To Evade $1.9 Million In Taxes on Sales of Ozone-Depleting Chemical
June
06-30 Toxic Releases To Air, Water,
and Land In New Jersey Decreasing
06-30 Toxic Releases To Air, Water,
and Land In New York Decreasing
06-30 Toxic Releases To Air,
Water, and Land In Puerto Rico Decreasing
06-30 EPA Releases Annual Report on
Releases of Pollution To Air, Water, and Land in Virgin Islands
06-30
EPA Awards $52,500 to Farm Bureau to Reduce Water Pollution in New Jersey
06-25 Violation of EPA Standards
in Croton Drinking Water Points out Need for Filtration
06-24 EPA & Pace University
Sign Comprehensive Envrionmental Self-Audit Agreement
06-20 EPA Announces More Than $4.8 Million For New York Brownfields
06-20 EPA Announces Nearly $5 Million
For New Jersey Brownfields
06-19 U.S. Announces Settlement of Superfund
Case to Complete the Cleanup of the Mattiace Petrochemical Site in Glen
Cove, NY
06-19 EPA Awards Three Brownfields Job
Training Grants
06-16 EPA Proposes PCB Cleanup Plan For
Properties Near Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Superfund SIte
06-12 North Shore Pays Fines For Violating
Federal Hazardous Waste Handling Rules
06-06 EPA Administrator Whitman and NJDEP
Commissioner Campbell End Discharges of Sewage from Boats into Barnegat
Bay
06-04 EPA Releases List Of Preliminary
Candidate Sites For Sediment Processing/Transfer Facilities
06-04 EPA Releases Study That Shows Recommended
Methods For Cleaning WTC Dust Work
06-03 Burlington County Shooting Range
Adopts EPA’S Best Management Practices for Lead Shot
06-02 EPA Fines Board of Caguas Community
for Not Treating Drinking Water
May
05-28 EPA & GE Reach Draft Agreement
On Next Steps In Hudson River Cleanup
05-23 Demolition Done, EPA Moves Into
Final Phases of Cleanup In Franklin Square
05-20 EPA Enters Agreement For Cleanup
Study At The Vega Baja Solid Waste Disposal Superfund Site
05-19 EPA To Resume Cleanup Work At Ithaca
Gun Company Site This Week
05-16 EPA Regional Chief Joins Mayor
Driscoll and County Executive Pirro to Award $25,000 for Onondaga Lake
Projects
05-14 Federal Executive Board Honors
EPA Hero
05-14 EPA Proposes Performance Standards
To Protect People's Health and Environment During Hudson River Cleanup
05-12 EPA Says Superfund Cleanup Complete
at Skybel
05-06 EPA Orders Developer to Restore
Wetlands In Las Cucharillas and to Cease Further Construction of Industrial
Park
05-01 EPA Takes Industrial Latex Site
Off The National Priorities List
April
04-24 EPA Adds Warehouse III Site In
Manati To The Superfund National Priorities List
04-30 EPA Adds Woodbrook Road Dump Site
In New Jersey To The Superfund National Priorities List
04-30 EPA Proposes Three More New Jersey
Sites For The Superfund National Priorities List
04-24 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements In New York
04-24 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements In New Jersey
04-24 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements In Virgin Islands
04-24 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements In Puerto Rico
04-24 EPA Proposes Plan For Continued
Community Involvement In The Design And Cleanup Of The Hudson River
04-23 EPA Switches To Pollution-Free
Wind Power For New York City Offices
04-22 EPA Administrator Announces Grants
to Educate Kids, Increase Public Awareness and Improve New York/New
Jersey Harbor Estuary
04-17 Whitman Details Stringent New
Standards to Reduce Pollution from Nonroad Diesel Engines During Visit
to New Jersey
04-17 EPA Announces Cleanup Plan For Contaminated
Soil and Ground Water At Central Islip Superfund SIte
04-17 EPA Issues Complaint Against C.W.
Post College For Hazardous Waste Violations Fine
04-16 EPA Orders Diaz Chemical To Address
Problems At Its Facility
04-14 EPA Announces Expanded Cleanup Plans
for Oyster Bay Superfund Site
04-10 New Victory Theater in Times Square
Wins Energy Award from EPA Administrator Christie Whitman
04-10 Urban Study Confirms
Trees Are Cool: Trees Are Cost-Effective And Pleasant Way to Cool Our
Cities
04-10 EPA Recognizes Puerto Rico
Drinking Water Alliance for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental
Justice
04-08 EPA Presents USTfields Cleanup Grant
in Hudson County
04-08 EPA Agreement Launches
Full Scale Investigation of Contamination at Luis Muñoz Marín
International Airport In Puerto Rico
04-01 EPA Proposes to End
Discharges of Sewage from Boats Into Barnegat Bay
04-01 Extraordinary Efforts to Protect
Watersheds byThree NJ Municipalities Earn Honors from EPA
04-01 Extraordinary Efforts to Protect Watersheds
by Four NY Municipalities Earn Honors from EPA
March
03-31 EPA Region 2 Rolls Out Mobile
Analytical Lab
03-26 All Cleanup Systems in Place and Working
at Sag Harbor Superfund Site
03-25 EPA presents awards for work on improving
air quality in New Jersey
03-19 PRASA to Pay $1 Million Fine
and Fund Drinking Water Improvements in Low-Income Communities
03-17 EPA gives $150,000 grant to Erie County
for Asthma Education
03-12 EPA Presents Energy Star Small
Business Award to Ontario, N.Y. Plastics Company
03-10 EPA Sets the Rule for PCBs in Dredged
Material
03-06 EPA Grants Waiver to Aguadilla
Wastewater Treatment Plant
February
02-27 EPA, New Jersey DEP and Marine Industry
Leaders Sign Agreement Promoting Cleaner Outboard Engines on Jersey Shores
02-19 United States and State of New
York Announce Settlement of Civil Environmental Case Involving Hundred
of Underground Storage Tanks in the New York City Area
02-13 EPA Recognizes K. Hovnanian For Its
Commitment To Building Energy Efficient Homes
02-03 EPA Proposes To Fine the Municipality
of Catano For Raw Sewage Discharges
02-03 EPA Proposes Cleanup for Contaminated
Soil and Ground Water at Federal Superfund SIte in Central Islip
January
01-31 EPA and CUNY Agree to Envioronmental
Self Audit Program
01-31 EPA Cites Raritan Valley Community
College for Hazardous Waste Violatations; Fines Total $39,599
01-30 Together with Leaders of New York’s
Chinese-American Community, EPA Kicks-Off Outreach Campaign about Hazards
of Illegal Pesticides
01-24 EPA Order Against NYC Points Out Need
to Filter Croton Water Supply
01-17 Izaak Walton League Agrees to Promote
EPA Lead Management Practices at 100 Shooting Ranges Nationwide
01-14 EPA Helps City of Rochester and
Monroe County Reduce Threats to Drinking Water
01-14 EPA Orders Manhattan Dry Cleaners
to Clean Up Its Act; Splendid Enterprises Subject to $34,250 Penalty
For Hazardous Waste Violations
