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EPA News Release (Region 7): EPA to Coordinate with ATSDR and Other Health Entities to Conduct Blood-Lead Screenings in Treece, Kan.
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901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations
EPA to Coordinate with ATSDR and Other Health Entities to Conduct Blood-Lead Screenings in Treece, Kan.
Contact Information: Debbie Kring, (913) 551-7725, kring.debbie@epa.gov
Environmental News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Kansas City, Kan., Aug. 31, 2009) - EPA, in coordination with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), and the Cherokee County Health Department, will conduct blood-lead screenings in Treece, Kan., on September 8 and 9. The screenings are in response to citizen concerns raised during a recent listening session held at the Treece City Hall.
WHO: EPA Region 7, ATSDR, KDHE and the Cherokee County Health Department
WHAT: Blood-Lead Screening of Treece residents
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 (6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.); and Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 (10:00 a.m. - Noon)
WHERE: Treece City Hall
For additional information about EPA's role in the Treece community or inquiries about any other Superfund activities in Region 7, please feel free to visit our Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/region07.
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EPA News Release (Region 7): EPA to Conduct Air Monitoring in Treece, Kan.
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901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations
EPA to Conduct Air Monitoring in Treece, Kan.
Contact Information: Debbie Kring, (913) 551-7725, kring.debbie@epa.gov
Environmental News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Kansas City, Kan., Aug. 31, 2009) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will place air monitors in Treece, Kan., in September to test for lead and other metals. This action is a direct response to citizen concerns about air quality shared during a recent tour and listening session held at Treece City Hall.
The monitors will be used to sample for lead and other heavy metals. The samples from each monitor will be evaluated and, in turn, form the basis of a summary report that describes the air concentration. After the evaluation, results will be available on EPA's Web site, along with historic air monitoring from Treece, and the other Cherokee County subsites. Previous air monitoring was discontinued years ago when results showed no levels above National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
For additional information about EPA's role in the Treece community or inquiries about any other lead-related Superfund activities in Region 7, please feel free to visit our Web site at http://www.epa.gov/region07.
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Hazardous Waste News Release (Region 9): EPA orders Chinle, Ariz. gas station to continue cleaning up fuel spill
For Immediate Release: August 31, 2009
Media Contact: Margot Perez-Sullivan, 415.947.4149
EPA orders
Order requires all parties involved to participate and cooperate in clean up efforts
SAN FRANCISCO–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered Pic N Run gas station in Chinle, Ariz., located on the Navajo Nation, to continue the clean up of approximately 15,000 gallons of petroleum fuel accidentally released at the site.
In spring 2005, a subcontractor working at the Pic N Run gas station, located on Route 7 near the entrance to Canyon de Chelly, punctured the underground fuel line leading to newly-installed above-ground storage tanks. In fall 2005, Pic N Run gas station operators discovered the release to the environment from the fuel line, which resulted in up to seven feet of free gasoline product in wells at the site.
“The accidental release that occurred at this facility demonstrates the critical need for careful management of gasoline. Human error can result in both environmental and financial impacts,” said Jeff Scott, the EPA’s Waste Division director for the Pacific Southwest region. “Working in coordination with the Navajo Nation EPA, we requiring that all the parties involved work cooperatively together to make certain the environment and public health are protected.”
The Order requires Pic N Run to take responsibility for the cleanup at the gas station, and also requires the facility’s leaseholders and Pic N Run’s contractors to participate and cooperate with the EPA, the Navajo Nation EPA and Pic N Run in these efforts. Under the order, Pic N Run must assess the site, continue cleaning up the gasoline, and undertake corrective action at the EPA’s direction.
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Hazardous Waste News Release (Region 9): U.S. EPA certifies JACADS facility has been properly cleaned and closed / Agency announces U.S. Army work has been properly done to clean up facility
For Immediate Release: August 31, 2009
Contact: Dean Higuchi, 808-541-2711, higuchi.dean@epa.gov
U.S. EPA certifies JACADS facility has been properly cleaned and closed
Agency announces U.S. Army work has been properly done to clean up facility
HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS) facility has been properly closed.
The EPA completed its multi-year review of the Army’s closure and sampling reports and through the EPA’s own analyses considers the JACADS facility to have met all of its permit requirements for closing the facility.
“Over the 15 years of JACADS' construction and operation, the EPA closely monitored the facility to ensure safe operations and prevent chemical releases.” said Jeff Scott, director of the EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region’s Waste Management Division. “Our closure decision brings a successful end to this project to safely dispose of 4 million pounds of toxic chemical weapons while protecting the former workers and wildlife on Johnston Atoll,”
In September 2002, the EPA approved the revised closure plan, which allowed the U.S. Army to begin cleanup of the facility. In July 2003 the Army completed the environmental sampling necessary for the closure and demolition of the JACADS incinerators and began demolition of the Munitions Demilitarization Building that housed the incinerators. In September 2003 the army completed the remainder of the environmental sampling. The closure, cleanup, and dismantling effort took approximately three years, from May 2001 to January 2004.
On Nov. 29, 2000, JACADS safely destroyed the last of over 400,000 obsolete chemical weapons collected from Okinawa and other U.S. military bases in the Pacific Basin and West Germany between 1971 and 1991. With the weapons destruction complete, the Army was required to decommission JACADS. The EPA's environmental oversight helped the Army safely incinerate over 4 million pounds of extremely toxic chemicals by destroying the poisons at the molecular level. The weapons had been stored in concrete igloos on the one-square mile island 800 miles southwest of Hawaii.
The EPA’s closure approval assures protection from impact of JACADS for not only human health, but also for the ecology and environment of this important and sensitive component of the Johnston Island National Wildlife Refuge, now part of the new Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
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Water Media Alert: (HQ): EPA's Urban Waters Service Day to Mark End of President Obama's United We Serve Summer of Service
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202-564-6794
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2009
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it would mark the end of President Obama’s Summer of Service by holding an Urban Waters Service Day on September 12, 2009. EPA employees will join the Anacostia Watershed Society in cleaning up the
United We Serve is President Obama’s national call to service, challenging all Americans to engage in sustained, collaborative, and focused service in their communities. United We Serve is led by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that improves lives and strengthens communities through volunteering and service. For more information, visit http://www.serve.gov
WHO: EPA and the Anacostia Watershed Society
WHAT: Urban Waters Service Day
WHEN: Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bladensburg Waterfront Park
4601 Annapolis Road
Bladensburg, Md.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITES: Please contact Jim Connolly jim@anacostiaws.org, Brandon Wallace wallace.brandon@epa.gov or Bernice Smith smith.bernicel@epa.gov for more information. You may also sign up or register your group at the serve.gov Web site at: http://myproject.serve.gov/public/OpportunityDetail.aspx?projectId=13831&subProjectId=4836493
or go to http://www.allforgood.org and search for Urban Waters.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2: Recovery Act News Release -- EPA Announces $87 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Water Infrastructure Projects in New York to Boost Economy, Create Jobs and Protect Public Health
EPA Announces $87 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Water Infrastructure Projects in
Contact: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov
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“This funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will help ensure clean water, which is vital to the health of every city and town across
The Recovery Act funds will go to the state's Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program. The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program provides low-interest loans for drinking water systems to finance infrastructure improvements. The program also emphasizes providing funds to small and disadvantaged communities and to programs that encourage pollution prevention as a tool for ensuring safe drinking water. An unprecedented $2 billion dollars will be awarded to fund drinking water infrastructure projects across the country under the Recovery Act in the form of low-interest loans, principal forgiveness and grants. At least 20 percent of the funds provided under the Recovery Act are to be used for green infrastructure, water and energy efficiency improvements and other environmentally innovative projects.
Since the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program began in 1997, EPA has awarded more than $8 billion in grants, which states have turned into $15 billion of financial assistance to fund drinking water projects. The revolving nature of the program ensures drinking water projects will be funded for generations to come.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) on February 17, 2009 and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at http://www.recovery.gov.
For information on EPA’s implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in
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Grants News Release (Region 6): EPA Awards Over $200,000 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission
EPA Awards Over $200,000 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission
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Greenversations Question of the Week: How does your school save energy?
We've posted this week's question:
How does your school save energy?
Students head back to school in September and schools prepare for their return by making repairs and upgrades. Schools can save money with energy efficient systems for heating and cooling and lights, and save water by fixing leaks.
Share your answer: http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/08/31/qotw-school-save-energy
¿Cómo su escuela ahorra energía?
Los estudiantes regresan al salón de clases en septiembre y las escuelas se preparan para su regreso haciendo reparaciones y mejoras. Las escuelas y colegios pueden ahorrar dinero con sistemas eficientes en el uso de energía para la calefacción, aire acondicionado y el alumbrado. También pueden ahorrar agua reparando las fugas.
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Awards and Recognition News Release (Region 2): Six Supermarkets Receive EPA GreenChill Awards for Reducing Use of Ozone-Depleting Greenhouse Gases
Six Supermarkets Receive EPA GreenChill Awards for Reducing
Use of Ozone-Depleting Greenhouse Gases
Contact: Amy Edgerton, (212) 637-5034, edgerton.amy@epa.gov or Dave Ryan, (202) 564-7827, ryan.dave@epa.gov
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“Price Chopper’s system is so effective at reducing the amount of refrigerant needed and the expected leak rate that it is truly a one-of-a-kind system in the U.S.,” said EPA Acting Regional Administrator George Pavlou. “Refrigerants are a double whammy – both depleting the ozone and contributing to climate change – so Price Chopper’s efforts are highly commendable.”
The GreenChill Partnership is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry that works with stores to reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting greenhouse gas refrigerants. EPA estimates that if every supermarket in the nation joined GreenChill and reduced its emissions to the current GreenChill average, the nation could save the equivalent of 22 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and 240 ozone depleting potential tons every year, all while saving $108 million in refrigerant expenses annually.
GreenChill’s founding food retail partners created baseline measurements of corporate-wide refrigerant emissions in 2007 and set goals to reduce emissions in 2008. Through those goals, partners reduced their aggregated total corporate emissions rate by 8.5 percent in one year.
This year’s awards recognize partners’ most recent successes. Awardees include:
· Price Chopper’s Colonie, N.Y. store
· King Kullen
· Wild by Nature
· Whole Foods
· Hill Phoenix
· Supervalu, the parent company of Acme
King Kullen and Wild by Nature, both supermarkets headquartered in Bethpage, N.Y., received New Partner Awards. New partners pledge to go beyond regulatory requirements by measuring and tracking refrigerant emissions, and then setting reduction targets for those emissions. Partners also agree to use only ozone-friendly alternatives in all new and remodeled stores.
Whole Foods, a nationwide chain of supermarkets, received the award for Most Improved Emissions Rate. As a GreenChill Founding Partner, Whole Foods shares GreenChill’s mission to minimize supermarkets’ impact on the Earth's ozone layer and on climate change. EPA recognized another food retailer that can be found nationwide, Supervalu, for achieving its emissions target in 2008/2009.
And refrigeration manufacturer Hill Phoenix also earned a Distinguished Partner Award for its advanced refrigeration technology, including compact chillers and secondary loop systems.
GreenChill now has a total of 46 partners, including 37 food retail partners with over 6,500 stores in 47 states.
For additional information on the EPA GreenChill Partnership, please visit: www.epa.gov/greenchill.
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Compliance and Enforcement News Release (HQ): EPA Seeks Public Input on National Enforcement Priorities Through Online Forum
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2009
EPA Seeks Public Input on National Enforcement Priorities Through Online Forum
The public will be able to provide feedback through the EPA Web site until December 1, giving them a forum to submit ideas for EPA to consider for new areas of enforcement focus. All ideas will be evaluated and considered for recommendation to the EPA administrator about the future direction of EPA’s national enforcement and compliance priorities.
The current enforcement priorities through 2010 focus on significant environmental problems, including pollution from stormwater runoff, air toxics, concentrated animal feeding operations, and mineral processing.
To submit suggestions for potential priorities: http://blog.epa.gov/enforcementnationalpriority/
Information on the enforcement priorities: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/data/planning/priorities/index.html
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Pregunta de la Semana: ¿Cómo su escuela ahorra energía?
Pregunta de la Semana: ¿Cómo su escuela ahorra energía?
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:25:42 -0500
Los estudiantes regresan al salón de clases en septiembre y las escuelas se preparan para su regreso haciendo reparaciones y mejoras. Las escuelas y colegios pueden ahorrar dinero con sistemas eficientes en el uso de energía para la calefacción, aire acondicionado y el alumbrado. También pueden ahorrar agua reparando las fugas. ¿Cómo su escuela ahorra energía? Cada [...]
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Question of the Week: How does your school save energy?
Question of the Week: How does your school save energy?
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:30:07 -0500
Students head back to school in September and schools prepare for their return by making repairs and upgrades. Schools can save money with energy efficient systems for heating and cooling and lights, and save water by fixing leaks. How does your school save energy? Each week we ask a question related to the environment. Please let us [...]
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