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EPA: Regency Centers Awarded 2015 Rain Catcher Award for Stormwater Runoff Management
Regency Centers in Raleigh, NC Awarded 2015 EPA Region 4
Rain Catcher Award ATLANTA
– The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Regency Centers with the
regional 2015 EPA Rain Catcher Award in the Commercial Category for the Market
at Colonnade project in Raleigh, N.C. The award was given at a ceremony during
the EPA Region 4/International Erosion Control Association Municipal Wet
Weather Stormwater Conference, in Atlanta, Ga.The vision
for the Market at Colonnade project was
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17th Jun 2015
EPA: California Steel Company Fined for Improperly Labeled Hazardous Waste Containers
EPA Release Date: 10/28/2014
Contact Information: Nahal Mogharabi, 213-244-1815, mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov
LOS ANGELES—The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency fined Kern Steel Fabrication, Inc.
$57,100 for improper management of hazardous waste generated at its 627
Williams Street facility in Bakersfield, Calif.
During a 2012 investigation, EPA found that
the facility failed to properly label about 30 of its containers holding
hazardous wastes such as waste paint,
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21st May 2015
EPA: Pulp Mill and Cardboard Company Settle Clean Water Act Violations
BOSTON – Two
companies operating under the control of Cascades USA, Inc. have agreed
to settle EPA allegations that they violated the federal Clean Water
Act. The companies are Cascades Auburn Fiber, operating in Auburn,
Maine; and Norampac New England, Inc., operating in Thompson, Conn.
Cascades Auburn Fiber has agreed to pay a fine
of $65,000 for alleged clean water violations at its Auburn, Maine pulp
mill. Norampac New England has agreed to pay a fine of $100,000 for
alleged clean wa
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21st May 2015
EPA: Strategy to Reduce District’s Sewer Overflows Will Include Green Infrastructure
(PHILADELPHIA- May 20, 2015)
– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia
(District) and DC Water today announced an agreement to modify a 2005
federal consent decree (CD) allowing DC Water to incorporate green
infrastructure in its long-term strategy for curtailing combined sewer
overflows (CSOs).
The modification, filed yesterday in Federal District
Court in Washington, D.C., gives DC Water the go-ahead to pursue an
integrated green/gray infrastructure
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20th May 2015
EPA: Hazardous Waste Generator Violations at GKN Armstrong Wheels, Iowa
Environmental News
(Lenexa,
Kan., May 13, 2015) - EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections at
two GKN Armstrong Wheels, Inc., facilities in Iowa revealed violations
of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the
storage and handling of hazardous waste at each facility. In a
settlement filed recently in Lenexa, Kan., the company agreed to pay a
$150,031 civil penalty to the United States.
Independent inspections at the company's Estherville and Armstrong
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20th May 2015