New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection petitions EPA to make the RRI Energy power plant across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania to install pollution controls to cut sulfur dioxide emissions.
The company will pay $5 million and ensure that engines made in China that it plans to sell in the United States are certified to meet Clean Air Act emission requirements.
EPA adds Joseph DeMatteo of Clark County, Nev., to its fugitive list.
EPA awards nearly $2.5 million for the commercialization of ingenious technologies through the Small Business Innovation Research program.
State, city, county, and others work together to reduce tiny particle levels.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has about $1.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for pollution-control devices on diesel school buses.
Hydrofluorocarbons, which replaced chlorofluorocarbons to protect the ozone layer, are now contributing to climate change.
President's Cancer Panel notes that while the problem is not new, the awareness of a lack of government action has grown.
Volkswagen's Chattanooga facility will debut North America's first EcoDryScrubber to lower CO2 and NOx emissions, energy costs, and water usage.
Group enlists aid of Wolf Eagle Environmental and Picarro to measure methane in several Dallas-Forth Worth metro area counties.
From the first Earth Day to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, Stantec professionals outline the movement's progress.
Research by National Science Foundation award winner Peter Sunderland may help engine designers improve the way fuel is injected and burned.
The American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report attributes gains to emissions control equipment for coal-fired power plants and cleaner diesel fuel and engines.
- By L.K. Williams, EPonline
Research suggests that endotoxins, which attach to particulate matter, may play a role in chronic inflammation of the heart.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences led the work on the federal report, which recommends that future research determines who will be most vulnerable to climate change and what efforts will be most beneficial.
Company lawsuit against U.S. EPA is still pending over a 2009 guidance that allows engines to operate with the NOx emission control SCR System turned off.
Agency will determine if lead in aviation gas poses threat to public health.
The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System has agreed to join EPA programs that will help lower energy and water usage, waste, and air pollution at 12 areas hospitals.
Employees and other volunteers will be planting trees, cleaning communities, and recycling materials as well as watching for random acts of greenness.