Vernal, Utah -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized an air quality plan, called a Federal Implementation Plan, which will require enforceable controls on the emissions of air pollutants from new, modified, and existing oil and natural gas facilities on Indian country lands within the Uintah and Ouray...
Registration Open for EPA Virtual Public Hearing on EPA’s Supplemental Proposal to Cut Methane Pollution to Protect Communities, Combat Climate Change, and Bolster American Innovation
WASHINGTON – Registration opens today for EPA’s virtual public hearing on the Agency’s supplemental proposal to strengthen its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution from oil and natural gas operations. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $266K Grant to Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska for Air Monitoring Project
LENEXA, KAN. (DEC. 5, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska to receive $266,064 for a community air pollution monitoring project. This grant is among 132 air monitoring projects in 37 states that will receive $53.4 million from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act...