Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463, EPA gives notice of a public meeting of the (NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice to the EPA Administrator on a broad range of environmental policy, technology, and management issues. NACEPT members represent academia, industry, non-governmental organizations, and local, state, and tribal governments. The purpose of this meeting is to begin developing recommendations to the Administrator regarding actions that EPA can take in response to the National Academy of Sciences Report on ``Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.'' A copy of the agenda for the meeting will be posted at http:/ /www.epa.gov/ofacmo/nacept/cal-nacept.htm.
The University of Missouri has been recognized by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency for using a variety of alternative energy sources to power its campus. MU was one of three universities to receive the agency's 2010 Energy Star Combined Heat and Power award. Although MU has been recognized in the past for energy efficiency, this is the first time the school has received this specific award, said Karlan Seville, spokeswoman for Campus Facilities.
A settlement in the largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history last week will bring about $135 million to Missouri to help clean up five Superfund sites. The sites - three in southeastern Missouri and two in the southwestern part of the state - are among more than 80 Superfund sites in 19 states receiving portions of a $1.79 billion settlement from the reorganization of the American Smelting and Refining Co., or Asarco, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
Paula Picker demolished her late father's Tulane Avenue dry goods store last winter with a plan to sell the memory-scarred plot to Louisiana State University for its proposed 484-bed teaching hospital. When bulldozers ripped off the thick, bottle-green glass facade of the 1946-built Sol Teles Dry Goods Store building, Picker salvaged a rough-edged piece. More than a year later, the piece of jagged, concrete-backed glass is the only evidence of construction in the downtown New Orleans corridor that on planning maps appears as a $1.2-billion twin hospital complex shared by LSU and the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs. The state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are splitting the cost of the project.
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act does not authorize the award of attorney fees and costs against a plaintiff's attorney, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a U.S District Court. A debtor sued a collection agency for violations of the FDCPA. After a bench trial, the judge ruled in favor of the collection agency and awarded $156,000 in attorney fees against the debtor and the debtor's attorney jointly under 15 U.S.C.[section]1692k(a)(3).
[Lisa Jackson], 46, was Corzine's DEP commissioner from 2006 until assuming the chief of staff post earlier this month, and has been in public service for 20 years, including a management position at the EPA. She is an engineer with a master's degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University, and she has forged a strong reputation in the state's capital. TRENTON - Lisa Jackson - the former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection who recently became Gov. Jon S. Conine's chief of staff - will be nominated by President-elect Barack Obama to be commissioner of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, according to news reports. Jackson, 46, was Corzine's DEP commissioner from 2006 until assuming the chief of staff post earlier this month, and has been in publ...
PHILADELPHIA - The director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority was placed on leave Thursday amid news the agency quietly agreed to pay nearly $900,000 to settle four sexual harassment complaints filed against him, while U.S housing officials vowed to start an immediate audit of the agency. The board of the Philadelphia agency voted unanimously to put longtime director Carl Greene on leave while it investigates. Meanwhile, U.S. housing officials planned to audit the organization and its use of public money during Greene's tenure.
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nations capable of making weapons VIENNA, AUSTRIA - More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programs could retool them to make weapons, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Monday amid new U.S and European demands that Iran give up technology capable of producing such arms.
WASHINGTON, March 16, /U.S, Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the State of South Carolina, today announced a major Clean Air Act settlement with the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper). The settlement resolves the federal government's claims that Santee Cooper violated the Clean Air Act New Source Review program at several of its plants by undertaking construction activities and increasing emissions of air pollution without installing required pollution controls. The settlement is expected to eliminate almost 70,000 tons of harmful air pollutants annually from four of Santee Cooper's existing coal-fired electricity generating plants in South Carolina. Today's settlement is consistent with a series of cases pu...
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