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• EPA Reaches Settlement with Des Moines Cold Storage Co. Inc. for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Reaches Settlement with Des Moines Cold Storage Co. Inc. for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations

  • Release Date: January 27, 2021

• GWU Hospital in D.C. to pay $108,304 penalty for hazardous waste violations

  EPA News Release: GWU Hospital in D.C. to pay $108,304 penalty for hazardous waste violations

  • Release Date: January 27, 2021

• EPA Extends Public Review of Proposed Cleanup Plan to Address Soil and Groundwater Contamination at the Riverside Industrial Park Superfund Site in Newark, New Jersey

  EPA News Release: EPA Extends Public Review of Proposed Cleanup Plan to Address Soil and Groundwater Contamination at the Riverside Industrial Park Superfund Site in Newark, New Jersey

  • Release Date: January 25, 2021

• EPA Delivers Results on PFAS Action Plan

  Agency delivers on the historic commitments made in the PFAS Action Plan to address these emerging chemicals of concern and protect public health

  EPA News Release: EPA Delivers Results on PFAS Action Plan

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  Action prompts resumption of recycling “mountains” of expended small arms brass cartridges

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA Finalizes Guidance to Waive Toxicity Tests on Animal Skin

  Guidance is expected to save up to 750 animals from unnecessary testing annually

  EPA News Release: EPA Finalizes Guidance to Waive Toxicity Tests on Animal Skin

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• U.S. settles with U.S. Magnesium, the largest producer of magnesium metal in the Northern Hemisphere, for alleged illegal disposal of hazardous waste at Rowley, Utah facility

  Magnesium metal producer commits to process changes to treat its waste streams to remove dioxins, furans, hexachlorobenzene and PCBs to reduce environmental impacts from its operations

  EPA News Release: U.S. settles with U.S. Magnesium, the largest producer of magnesium metal in the Northern Hemisphere, for alleged illegal disposal of hazardous waste at Rowley, Utah facility

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA Approves Emergency Exemption for Antiviral Air Treatment

  EPA News Release: EPA Approves Emergency Exemption for Antiviral Air Treatment

  • Release Date: January 15, 2021

• EPA Announces Progress with Environmental Justice Communities, Including the Heartland

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Progress with Environmental Justice Communities, Including the Heartland

  • Release Date: January 15, 2021

• EPA Data Shows Release of Toxic Chemicals Down by 11.4 Million Pounds in Mid-Atlantic Region

  EPA News Release: EPA Data Shows Release of Toxic Chemicals Down by 11.4 Million Pounds in Mid-Atlantic Region

  • Release Date: January 14, 2021

• EPA Takes Action to Investigate PFAS Contamination

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Investigate PFAS Contamination

  • Release Date: January 14, 2021

• EPA Completes First 10 Risk Evaluations, Reaching Major Chemical Safety Milestone

  Agency releases final risk evaluation for PV29

  EPA News Release: EPA Completes First 10 Risk Evaluations, Reaching Major Chemical Safety Milestone

  • Release Date: January 14, 2021

• EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report and Analysis Facilities in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Continue to Reduce Releases of Toxic Chemicals

  Facilities in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Continue to Reduce Releases of Toxic Chemicals

  EPA News Release: EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report and Analysis Facilities in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Continue to Reduce Releases of Toxic Chemicals

  • Release Date: January 13, 2021

• EPA publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory report; releases from Region 6 facilities down by six percent since 2018

  Includes data for Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas

  EPA News Release: EPA publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory report; releases from Region 6 facilities down by six percent since 2018

  • Release Date: January 13, 2021

• U.S. EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report

  Pacific Southwest data show 3 percent increase in chemical releases

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA Publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory Report

  • Release Date: January 13, 2021