Tougher Air Pollution Regulations Are Being Proposed by the EPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has recommended, for the first time in a decade, stricter limits on fine soot in the air, which is linked to numerous health problems. Changes to PM 2.5 standards would lower the current limit from 12 micrograms per cubic meter to a r...

EU designates certain nuclear and natural gas as green

EPA disagrees with TVA's plan to build a gas plant to replace a coal plant. In contrast, it is more difficult for natural gas to remain a bridging fuel in the US.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was recently instructed by the Environmental Protection Agency to reevaluate its first ch...

To clean approximately 1,300 hazardous sites, the US reinstated Superfund taxes

Two long-expired excise levies on 42 chemicals and products derived from them are being reinstated by the US government. More than 1300 polluting sites in the US will be decontaminated with the help of the anticipated $14.4 billion (£12 billion) in revenue.

The "Superfund&quo...

The planned asbestos ban by the US EPA is being opposed by the industry

Imports of chrysotile asbestos, which is only used in the Chlor-alkali sector, would be prohibited in the United States under a groundbreaking regulation proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency on April 5. The regulation would also make it illegal to import asbestos-containing items su...

EPA Streamlining Process for Bringing Biofuels to the Market

On 21st January, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has launched a new initiative for streamlining the review of biofuels and chemicals that can play a major role in replacing the higher greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels. 

The EPA has announced the new initiative ...

WHO and EPA Partner for Protecting Public Health

The World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for five years for the continued collaboration of the two organizations on a wide range of health and environment issues, particularly air and water pollution, children’s healt...

Harmful Impacts of Ethylene Oxide

Jennifer Jinot spent 26 years in the US Environmental Protection Agency and assessed the impacts of toxic chemicals on human beings.

She analyzed the effects of exposure to secondhand smoke and waited in frustration for four years before the final risk assessment was published in 1993. ...

Avantor fined 600,000 Dollars for Violating Chemical Restrictions

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has announced that the alleged violations of reporting chemical requirements by the Avantor Performance Materials LLC have been resolved.

Earlier this week EPA said that the company was forced to pay 600,000 dollars in a civ...

Three harmed in Texas petrochemical plant impact

Three specialists were harmed in an early morning blast on Wednesday that started a burst at a Texas petrochemical plant, the most recent in a progression of compound plant mishaps in the district. An underlying blast at a TPC Group plant in Port Neches, Texas, was trailed by auxiliary impacts, b...