On Tuesday I participated in a webcast from the U.S. Center at Rio+20 about an internet challenge to come up with creative solutions to the global problem of e-Waste. EPA, along with the State Department, OpenIdeo and the Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco, announced an e-Waste Challenge to generate ideas…
Summer has started in earnest. Record high temperatures are blanketing the country, especially the eastern states. What is one of the most important things to do to survive this extreme heat? Drink water to stay hydrated! The elderly, children and pregnant women are most susceptible to extreme…
(New York, N.Y.) Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is repeating its announcement that it is accepting public comments on its proposed action to approve an air permit to construct a garbage incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Energy Answers International, Inc. has proposed to construct…
(New York, N.Y.) Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is repeating its announcement that it is accepting public comments on its proposed action to approve an air permit to construct a garbage incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Energy Answers International, Inc. has proposed to construct…
On May 2nd, 2012 EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson blogged about the Youth Sustainability Challenge. This project challenged American youth to submit a video that shared what they are doing to encourage sustainability in their communities and to make an America built to last. Today I am excited to…
A team of NOAA-supported scientists is predicting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a low of approximately 1,197 square miles to as much as 6,213 square miles. The wide range is the result of using two different forecast models.
By Ana Corado I would like to tell you the story that leads to my leaving the Sava Center in Belgrade, Serbia, on a late foggy Friday evening, after a long week of discussions on international chemicals management. My story begins many years ago, as a child in Guatemala, where I was born and raised.…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Brazilian Minister for the Environment Izabella Teixeira today announced a new online tool that highlights key links between policies, funding and on-the-ground projects that can help drive urban…
By Bicky Corman On Saturday, June 16, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Green Chemistry hosted by the United National Global Compact (UNGC) and United National Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). In his introduction, UNIDO’s Heinz Luenenberger warned us it was likely to be…
This week, NOAA’s National Weather Service is taking its lightning safety message to the lightning capital of the country Tampa, Fla., a city with more lightning strikes than any other in the nation. As the agency launches its annual lightning safety awareness campaign tomorrow, it reminds people…
by Sean Sheldrake, EPA Region 10 Dive Team and Alan Humphrey, EPA-Environmental Response Team (ERT) On the mind of the divers, as well as myself, an EPA divemaster, is always safety first and foremost. To be safe and deliver good science in a zero visibility underwater environment, choreography is…
(Boston, Mass. – June 19, 2012) – Unhealthy air quality is predicted for the southern portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the south coast of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands, on Wednesday due to ground-level ozone. Poor air quality is expected to continue into Thursday
By Scott Fulton Olá! A few days ago, I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the United Nation’s Conference on Sustainable Development (a.k.a. “Rio+20”). I’m excited and humbled to be a part of this milestone event, which marks the 20th anniversary of the first UN Earth Summit. …
By Tom Murray I recently attended the pre-kindergarten graduation ceremony for my five-year old granddaughter. It was something to behold as she and a dozen or so of her friends assembled together in blue caps and gowns to receive their diplomas and the well wishes of their teachers as they move on…
Environmental News NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY (Kansas City, Kan., June 18, 2012) - EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks will join officials from St. Louis Clean Cities and JB Marine Service at an event Tuesday to showcase engine replacement and repowering activities that reduce harmful air emissions in…
by Administrator Lisa P. Jackson This week I join colleagues from across the US and around the world at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. On the 20th anniversary of the 1992 UN Earth Summit that set an early course for sustainability across the globe, we are working to shape the…
Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC), a Fincantieri company, on June 16 launched the Reuben Lasker, a fisheries survey vessel that the Wisconsin shipyard is building for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has reached agreement with 70 companies considered potentially responsible for contamination of the lower Passaic River to remove approximately 16,000 cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from a half-mile long…
New federal committee members to advise NOAA on its navigation services.
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Divide the Antarctic to Protect Native Species, Propose Experts (Jun 13, 2012) An international team of scientists have published the first continent-wide assessment of the Antarctic's biogeography, and propose that the…
On Tuesday I participated in a webcast from the U.S. Center at Rio+20 about an internet challenge to come up with creative solutions to the global problem of e-Waste. EPA, along with the State Department, OpenIdeo and the Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco, announced an e-Waste Challenge to generate ideas…
Summer has started in earnest. Record high temperatures are blanketing the country, especially the eastern states. What is one of the most important things to do to survive this extreme heat? Drink water to stay hydrated! The elderly, children and pregnant women are most susceptible to extreme…
(New York, N.Y.) Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is repeating its announcement that it is accepting public comments on its proposed action to approve an air permit to construct a garbage incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Energy Answers International, Inc. has proposed to construct…
(New York, N.Y.) Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is repeating its announcement that it is accepting public comments on its proposed action to approve an air permit to construct a garbage incinerator in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Energy Answers International, Inc. has proposed to construct…
On May 2nd, 2012 EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson blogged about the Youth Sustainability Challenge. This project challenged American youth to submit a video that shared what they are doing to encourage sustainability in their communities and to make an America built to last. Today I am excited to…
A team of NOAA-supported scientists is predicting that this year’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a low of approximately 1,197 square miles to as much as 6,213 square miles. The wide range is the result of using two different forecast models.
By Ana Corado I would like to tell you the story that leads to my leaving the Sava Center in Belgrade, Serbia, on a late foggy Friday evening, after a long week of discussions on international chemicals management. My story begins many years ago, as a child in Guatemala, where I was born and raised.…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Brazilian Minister for the Environment Izabella Teixeira today announced a new online tool that highlights key links between policies, funding and on-the-ground projects that can help drive urban…
By Bicky Corman On Saturday, June 16, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Green Chemistry hosted by the United National Global Compact (UNGC) and United National Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). In his introduction, UNIDO’s Heinz Luenenberger warned us it was likely to be…
This week, NOAA’s National Weather Service is taking its lightning safety message to the lightning capital of the country Tampa, Fla., a city with more lightning strikes than any other in the nation. As the agency launches its annual lightning safety awareness campaign tomorrow, it reminds people…
by Sean Sheldrake, EPA Region 10 Dive Team and Alan Humphrey, EPA-Environmental Response Team (ERT) On the mind of the divers, as well as myself, an EPA divemaster, is always safety first and foremost. To be safe and deliver good science in a zero visibility underwater environment, choreography is…
(Boston, Mass. – June 19, 2012) – Unhealthy air quality is predicted for the southern portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the south coast of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands, on Wednesday due to ground-level ozone. Poor air quality is expected to continue into Thursday
By Scott Fulton Olá! A few days ago, I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the United Nation’s Conference on Sustainable Development (a.k.a. “Rio+20”). I’m excited and humbled to be a part of this milestone event, which marks the 20th anniversary of the first UN Earth Summit. …
By Tom Murray I recently attended the pre-kindergarten graduation ceremony for my five-year old granddaughter. It was something to behold as she and a dozen or so of her friends assembled together in blue caps and gowns to receive their diplomas and the well wishes of their teachers as they move on…
Environmental News NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY (Kansas City, Kan., June 18, 2012) - EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks will join officials from St. Louis Clean Cities and JB Marine Service at an event Tuesday to showcase engine replacement and repowering activities that reduce harmful air emissions in…
by Administrator Lisa P. Jackson This week I join colleagues from across the US and around the world at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. On the 20th anniversary of the 1992 UN Earth Summit that set an early course for sustainability across the globe, we are working to shape the…
Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC), a Fincantieri company, on June 16 launched the Reuben Lasker, a fisheries survey vessel that the Wisconsin shipyard is building for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has reached agreement with 70 companies considered potentially responsible for contamination of the lower Passaic River to remove approximately 16,000 cubic yards of highly contaminated sediment from a half-mile long…
New federal committee members to advise NOAA on its navigation services.
Posted by USDA's National Invasive Species Information Center -- Divide the Antarctic to Protect Native Species, Propose Experts (Jun 13, 2012) An international team of scientists have published the first continent-wide assessment of the Antarctic's biogeography, and propose that the…