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• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces EPA’s “Powering the Great American Comeback” Initiative

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announces EPA’s “Powering the Great American Comeback” Initiative

  • Release Date: February 4, 2025

• EPA Launches Largest Wildfire Hazardous Material Removal Effort in Agency History

  EPA News Release: EPA Launches Largest Wildfire Hazardous Material Removal Effort in Agency History

  • Release Date: February 3, 2025

• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Visits East Palestine, Ohio, with Vice President JD Vance to Mark Two-Year Anniversary of Train Derailment

  This was Zeldin’s first official trip as EPA Administrator

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Visits East Palestine, Ohio, with Vice President JD Vance to Mark Two-Year Anniversary of Train Derailment

  • Release Date: February 3, 2025

• EPA to host public forum in Africatown, Alabama to discuss environmental and health challenges, solutions

  EPA News Release: EPA to host public forum in Africatown, Alabama to discuss environmental and health challenges, solutions

  • Release Date: April 30, 2024

• EPA Announces Start of Cleanup at the Velsicol Burn Pit Superfund Site in St. Louis, Michigan 

  Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda is kickstarting the cleanup

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Start of Cleanup at the Velsicol Burn Pit Superfund Site in St. Louis, Michigan 

  • Release Date: April 30, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Ban on Most Uses of Methylene Chloride, Protecting Workers and Communities from Fatal Exposure

  Rule requires stronger worker safety requirements for remaining industrial uses

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Ban on Most Uses of Methylene Chloride, Protecting Workers and Communities from Fatal Exposure

  • Release Date: April 30, 2024

• EPA Highlights Biden-Harris Administration’s New National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure

  EPA takes important steps to secure our nation’s water infrastructure

  EPA News Release: EPA Highlights Biden-Harris Administration’s New National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure

  • Release Date: April 30, 2024

• EPA salutes citizen scientists' water quality monitoring of the Merrimack

  EPA News Release: EPA salutes citizen scientists' water quality monitoring of the Merrimack

  • Release Date: April 29, 2024

• EPA Issues Consent Order to MAX Environmental Technologies to Ensure Compliance with Hazardous Waste Rules at Yukon, PA, Facility

  EPA News Release: EPA Issues Consent Order to MAX Environmental Technologies to Ensure Compliance with Hazardous Waste Rules at Yukon, PA, Facility

  • Release Date: April 29, 2024

• State of Washington, federal agencies agree on future of tank waste cleanup at Hanford Site

  EPA News Release: State of Washington, federal agencies agree on future of tank waste cleanup at Hanford Site

  • Release Date: April 29, 2024

• EPA Celebrates Earth Week and Agency Efforts to Prevent Plastic Pollution

  EPA News Release: EPA Celebrates Earth Week and Agency Efforts to Prevent Plastic Pollution

  • Release Date: April 26, 2024

• EPA Announces a $425,000 Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving Grant to Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation

  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) is receiving $425,616.

  • Release Date: April 25, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants

  Four final rules deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s day-one commitment to lead on climate action and to protect all communities from pollution

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants

  • Release Date: April 25, 2024

• EPA settles with Rhode Island corporation for hazardous waste violations 

  Electrical connector manufacturer agrees to pay penalties for alleged storage issues 

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Rhode Island corporation for hazardous waste violations 

  • Release Date: April 25, 2024

• EPA, CalEPA Release Plan for Joint Enforcement Work to Protect California Communities Overburdened by Pollution

  Plan Builds on Groundbreaking Federal-State Partnership Launched through 2021 Environmental Justice-Focused Agreement

  EPA News Release: EPA, CalEPA Release Plan for Joint Enforcement Work to Protect California Communities Overburdened by Pollution

  • Release Date: April 24, 2024