Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal
Three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press said up to 350 employees at the National Nuclear Security ...
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As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
Just over a mile from where Patricia Flores has lived for almost 20 years, a battery smelter plant spewed toxic elements into ...
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After Shapiro calls for 2 state prisons to close, prisoner advocates follow up with specific recommendations
After Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal called for the closure of two state prisons to save taxpayer dollars, several groups organized a march in the city on Saturday for prisoner rights and the clo ...
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West Virginia leads 22 states suing over New York Climate Change Superfund Act
West Virginia led the charge against New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, suing to block the law that requires polluters ...
EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’
More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were notified last week that they may be subject to immediate firing, according to an email obtained by The Hill. The email, ...
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DEP to assume oversight of Waverly Twp. superfund site
Pennsylvania American Water does not have ... shared by the EPA throughout the process. “Obviously a superfund cleanup site and a municipality being able to just make information available ...
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Vermont’s Climate Superfund Faces First Legal Challenge from Fossil Fuel Interests
The other shoe has inevitably dropped in response to Vermont’s climate superfund law: The American Petroleum Institute (API) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed the first suit against th ...
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Multi-million-dollar pasta manufacturing facility coming to Pennsylvania
ALLENWOOD, Pa. (WHTM) — Earlier today, Governor Shapiro announced that an Italian pasta manufacturer will be constructing its first-ever North American facility right here in the Keystone State.
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As extreme weather batters communities, New York climate activists show a powerful path forward
On the evening of Dec. 10, 12 self-identified elder climate activists sat around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol, in Albany, singing carols as they waited to be arrested. The ...
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Superfund Site Designation Request For Tijuana River Valley Denied By EPA
This past October, local leaders sent a letter and petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking to create a Superfund site to investigate the pollution in the Tijuana River Valley. A ...
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EPA Declines to Investigate Tijuana River Valley as Potential Superfund Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided not to investigate the Tijuana River Valley as a potential Superfund site. “The Superfund program is geared toward dealing with hazardous ...
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EPA finishes ‘five-year review’ of two Woburn Superfund sites
The 330-acre site, located in Woburn in the Aberjona River Valley (with I-95 to the north, I-93 to the east, a rail line to the west and Salem Street to the south), consists of two municipal wells ...