Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2025
Panoramic of Ocean Beach in San Francisco, downwind of the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant. For example, the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant may be protected by a future $175 million sea wall approved last year by Californias Coastal Commission.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here.
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Circle of Blue
MAY 2, 2023
Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. In releasing this wastewater the facility violated a national permit, though according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the majority of the release was “clear storm water” and the threat to public health is “slim.”
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 26, 2024
This historic announcement shows that we will not sit by while illegal air pollution rains down on nearby communities and the Pennsylvanians who live in them." The settlement also includes approximately $37 million worth of pollution control and plant reliability upgrades to prevent future breakdowns of essential pollution control systems.
Montrose
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 20, 2023
There arecurrently carbon standards in place for new power plants , which were set back in 2015; however, there are no standards for existing plants as neither the 2015 Clean Power Plan nor the 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule —both of which targeted existing facilities—remain in place.
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