A new EPA Environmental Appeals Board case contesting an agency-issued underground injection control (UIC) permit aims to force the agency to give greater weight to environmental justice (EJ) concerns and drinking water impacts when it considers Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) permits for oil extraction, waste disposal and other uses.
Birmingham's mayor calls for a waste site in the city to be added to the Superfund list after a former PRP official and his lawyer engaged in a “a massive public misinformation campaign and bribery” to block the listing.
Wastewater utilities are urging EPA to focus its work on perfluorinated chemicals on research to better understand the fate, transport and toxicity of the chemicals and then to use “heightened source control efforts and certain, specifically tailored regulatory standards,” to remove the constituents from the environment.
Environmentalists say EPA has a statutory mandate to craft a binding rule governing the terms of public participation in state coal ash permit programs, but has only issued a guidance on the subject.
Three Democrats are urging acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler to voluntarily admit fault by the agency in the 2015 Gold King wastewater spill and commit to paying damages to residents.
Appellate judges hearing two groundwater contamination suits against coal ash disposal sites appear to be seeking options to resolve the litigation on narrow grounds without issuing a broad ruling on the contested issue of whether the Clean Water Act (CWA) covers leaks to groundwater, despite calls from all sides in the suits for such a ruling.
All 11 Senate environment committee Republicans voted in favor of President Donald Trump's nominees to head EPA's waste and international offices, while all 10 Democrats voted against the nominees.
The agency's Inspector General says EPA's 'Lean' management efforts will help better track states' efforts to obtain authorization for federal hazardous waste rules.
Oil giant Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) is renewing its effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court review and overturn a Montana high court decision that the company says upsets the long-standing bar to lawsuits interfering with Superfund cleanup decisions, rebutting local citizen arguments that the court should decline review.
