12-20 Deadline to Sign
Up for EPA Lower Manhattan Cleaning and Testing Program Draws Near
12-18 EPA Fines Company that Played Role
in Improper PCB Disposal at Model City Landfill
12-12 EPA Administrator and San Juan Mayor
Sign Agreement to Promote the Purchase of Energy Effiecient Products
Throughout the City Government
12-12 EPA Administrator HIghlights Tens
of Millions iven to Commonwealth For Drinking Water Improvements
12-11 Whitman Visits San Juan Area School
Teach Sun Safe to Puerto Rico Students
12-12 EPA Awards $500,000 To Launch Drinking-
Water Security Pilot; Consortium on Security Formed
12-10 EPA Proposes Sub-Surface Soil
Clean-up for Contamination at D'Imperio Superfund Site in Hamilton Township
12-10 EPA In Agreement With Oyster Bay
Plan to Acquire Part of Federal Superfund Site in Farmingdale for Park
Expansion
12-05 Asbestos Company's Accreditation
Stripped by State
12-04 EPA and States Sign Major Agreement
to Clean Up Long Island Sound; EPA Provides $4 Million to Support Restoration
Efforts
11-26 EPA Grants NYC a New Waiver from
Filtering Most of Its Drinking Water Supply City to Expand Watershed
Protections, Benefitting Upstate Environment and Economy
11-21 EPA Seeks Comment On Pilot Online
Tool To Access Facilities' Environmental Compliance
11-19 EPA & Syracuse University Sign
Comprehensive Environmental Self - Audit Agreement
11-08 EPA Awards NYC Parks $80K for
Outdoor Classroom Program Reaching 50,000 Kids
11-07 EPA Files Complaints Against Three
Universities For Hazardous Waste Violations
10-31 EPA Issues Complaint and Compliance
Order Against Virgin Petroleum of St. Croix, US, Virgin Islands
10-30 More Than 100 Gather in Riverhead
to Celebrate Plan to Preserve Long Island’s Peconic Bay
10-29 EPA Announces Spanish Language Campaign
to Promote Testing of Kids at Risk for Lead Poisoning; NHAC Calls for
Broader Testing of Children's Homes
10-22 First Data From EPA's WTC Cleaning
and Testing Program Available on Web
10-17 EPA Seeks $324K from New York Presbyterian
Hospital for Violations of Lead Paint Requirements
10-08 Public Comment Period on Proposed
Rule for PCBs in Dredged Materials Begins
10-08 EPA Grants Waiver to Puerto Rico’s
Arecibo Wastewater Treatment Plant
10-02 EPA Acknowledges Orvis
Shooting Preserve as a Model of Environmental StewardshipHistoric Millbrook
Facility First in Nation to Submit Lead Management Plan
10-02 EPA, FEMA & City Extend Deadline
to Register For Downtown Cleanup & Testing Program
10-01 At the Direction of Whitman, EPA Signs
Proposed Rule to Set Standards for Dredged Material
10-01 Fiscal Year Funding Totals $160 Million
for the Garden State Chemical Insecticide, Burnt Fly Bog, Rocky Hill
and Montgomery Township Superfund Sites Get Latest Funds for New Cleanups
September Releases
09-26 Seven Projects in New Jersey Receive
More than $52,000 in Funding from EPA
09-25 Whitman Promotes Water Monitoring
Activities In Celebration of Clean Water Act 30th Anniversary
09-23 EPA Announces $7.5 Million Plan to
Stengthen Cleanup System at Carlstadt Superfund SIte
09-20 EPA Administrator Christie
Whitman Launches New Educational Web Site On Ground LevelOzone
09-18 EPA Administrator Christie
Whitman To Launch Educational Web Site at Sevens Insitute In Hoboken
09-16 Contracts for EPA’s Downtown
Residential Dust Cleanup Program Are Awarded
09-16 EPA Earmarks Additional 10.7 Million
For Ongoing Cleanup of Creosote-Contaminated Properties in Manville
09-16 Sixteen Projects in New York Receive
More than $113,000 in Funding From EPA
09-09 EPA Earmarks Additional $10 Million
For Superfund Cleanup of More Radium-Contaminated Properties in Glen
Ridge and Bloomfield
09-04 EPA Places Three Sites On the Final
Superfund National Priorities List In New Jersey
09-04 EPA Places Three New York Sites
On the Final Superfund National Priorities List
09-04 EPA Proposes Contaminated Site
In Manati For the Federal Superfund National Priorities List
August Releases
08-29 EPA Urges New Yorkers to Reduce
Their Water Use
08-29 EPA Urges New Jerseyans to Reduce
Their Water Use
08-27 US Files Suit Against Joseph Macchia,
JR, Lorenzo Macchia and Five of Their Corporations For Violating Federal
Leak Prevention Requirements at Five Gas Stations In Brooklyn and Queens
08-27 U.S. EPA Selects 23 Members for
Participation in National Environmental Performance Track Program
08-27 U.S. EPA Selects 23 Members for Participation
in National Environmental Performance Track Program
08-19 EPA Announces Plan
For Energy-Effiecient, Environmentally Sound Facility at the San Juan
Landfill
08-19 EPA Announces Plan to Preserve and
Protect Open Space and Marshland in the Catano Area
08-19 EPA Provides Funds to Educate Teachers
and Students About PR's Bioluminescent Bays and Lagoons
08-16 Asbestos Testing to Start Immediately;
Deadline for Assistance Requests Extended
08-15 EPA Will Complete Cleanup of Remaining
Contamination at Superfund Site in Jobstown, Burlington County
08-08 EPA Removes Part of Federal Superfund
Site in Sparta From the National Priorities List of Hazardous Waste
Sites
08-01 EPA Opens Its Hudson River Field
Office in Fort Edward
Scheduled
July Releases
07-23 EPA & General Electric Reach Agreement
ON Plan To Sample Hudson River Sediment
07-18 U.S. EPA Files $111,199 Complaint
Against Manhattan College For Hazardous Waste Violations
07-11
EPA, Marine Industry Associations, States of New York and Vermont
Announce Initiative for Cleaner Outboard Motorboat Engines
07-09 Federal Government Files Suit
Against ARCO for EPA's Past Cleanup Site at Superfund Site in Wellsville,
NY
07-09 Roche Vitamins Agreed to pay $220,000
for Air Violations
07-08 EPA Administrator Whitman Visits
Central New York - Tours Onondaga
07-02 EPA’s Surveillance Helicopter
Coming Soon To A Beach Near You
07-01 EPA’s Jane Kenny Joins Senator
Jon S. Corzine On Beach Surveillance Helicopter From South of Atlantic
City to Sandy Hook
07-01 New EPA Data Shows Dramatic Air Quality
Improvement From Clear Skies Initiative
June Releases
06-27 EPA To Remove Superfund Site in
Pumstead From the NPL of Hazardous Waste Sites
06-19 EPA Begins Work on Pilot WTC Dust
Cleaning Study
06-19 EPA Reaches Settlement CWM for Violations
of PCB Rules at Facility in Model City
06-17 EPA Awards Mount Sinai $150,000
for Asthma Education
06-13 EPA Completes Superfund
Removal of Buried Ordinance in Undeveloped Area of Little Valley in
Washington Township
06-13 EPA OK’s New York
State Ban On Sewage Discharge in Peconic Estuary
06-05 EPA Caribbean Staff
to Plant Tree in Memory of 9/11
06-05 Court Issues $300,000
Penalty Against Buy Rite of Brooklyn, NY for Violating EPA Underground
Storage Tanks Regs
06-03 EPA Launches Lower
Manhattan Cleaning Hotline
May Releases
05-31 EPA Shifts Focus to Indoor Air
05-31 EPA Gets Set to Take Cleanup
and Testing Requests From Lower Manhattan Residents
05-29 Agency to Hold Half-Day Workshop
for Potential Environmental Performance Track Members
05-28 EPA
Region 2 Administrator Jane M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements
in Puerto Rico
05-24 Press Advisory
05-23 EPA Proposes to Allow NYC to Continue to Avoid
Filtering Catskill/Delaware Water
05-23 EPA Reports on Toxic Releases
to Air, Water, and Land in New York in 2002
05-23 EPA Reports on Toxic Releases
to Air, Water, and Land in New Jersey in 2002
05-20 EPA Selects Lakewood Township
in New Jersey
05-20 EPA Selects City of Lackawanna
and Broome County, New York For National Brownfields Grants
05-15 U.S. EPA FILES $301,000 COMPLAINT
AGAINST THE PRATT INSTITUTE FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE VIOLATIONS.
05-08 EPA
and City Outline Comprehensive Plan to Address the Concerns of Lower
Manhattan About the Impacts of the WTC Collapse on Indoor Air Quality
05-03 EPA puts New York City Portion
of Metropolitan Area on List of Areas Meeting Carbon Monoxide Standard
05-01 Searle Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
Settles with EPA on Charges it Violated Regs to Prevent Air Releases
April Releases
04-30 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements in New Jersey
04-30 EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements in New York
04-30EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements in US Virgin Islandso
04-30EPA Region 2 Administrator Jane
M. Kenny Honors Environmental Achievements in Puerto Rico
04-29 JCI Jones Chemicals Inc.
To Clean Up Superfund Site in Caledonia, New York Under Settlement
04-29 EPA Grants Waiver For Carolina
Wastewater Treatment
04-24 EPA Regional Administrator Celebrates Earth Day
Teaching Kids About the Importance of Water Conservation
04-22 EPA Regional Administrator Celebrates
Earth Day Teaching Kids About the Importance of Water Conservation
04-21 EPA Chooses Fort Edwards as Home
for New Hudson River Field Office
04-05 EPA
To Begin Site Work Preparation at Ithaca Gun Company Site
04-05 In Settlement of Environmental
Charges, Queens, N.Y. Dry Cleaner to Pay Penalty and Install "Cleaner"
Technology
04-03 EPA Completes Federal Superfund
Cleanup of Perry Builders Hazardous Waste Site in Bainbridge, New York
04-01 EPA, SUNY Reach Environmental
Audit Agreement
04-01 EPA Cleanup Plan Will Help Part
of Federal Superfund Site in Farmingdale Become Park Land and Recreation
Area
March Releases
03-26 EPA
To Make Public Comment on Proposed Boat Sewage in Peconic Bay
03-25 Federal,
State, and City Agencies Announce Actions for Lower Manhattan Air Quality
03-22 EPA
Invites Environmentally Responsible Companies to Step Up to the Plate
February Releases
02-26 EPA
Deletes the White Bridge Road Property in Morris County Form the NPL
List of Hazardous Wastes
02-22 Agency
Cites 9 Dry Cleaners in New York City Seeking More than $14,000 in Fines
02-22 Agency
Cites 5 Dry Cleaners on Long Island Seeking More than $7,000 in Fines
02-22 Agency
Cites 11 Dry Cleaners in New Jersey Seeking More than $17,000 in Fines
02-21 Innovative
Cleanup of St. Croix Alumina Contamination Begins
02-11 U.S.
EPA Selects 32 New Members for Participation in National Environmental
Performance Track, Recognized Top Environmental Performers
02-01 EPA Signs
Final Cleanup Plan For Hudson River; Public Involvement a Top Priority
January Releases
01-23 EPA Changes
In Cleanup Plans Pave Way for Future Community Reuse and Historic Preservation
at Superfund Site in Saratoga Springs New York
01-07 EPA
Administrator Christie Whitman and Regional Administrator Jane Kenny
Join Representative Frelinghuysen and NJDEP Commissioner Bob Shinn for
Celebratory Event
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