EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

News Releases from Region 10Action prompts resumption of recycling “mountains” of expended small arms brass cartridges01/19/2021Contact Information: (Seattle )  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, today announced a settlement for violations of federal laws governing the handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes. On October...

Developer Agrees to Mitigate Impacts to Streams and Wetlands

News Releases from Headquarters›Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA)Nearly Decade-long Clean Water Act Dispute Ends01/19/2021Contact Information: WASHINGTON (January 19, 2021) — A developer and his companies have agreed to effectuate $900,000 in compensatory mitigation, preserve undisturbed riparian areas, conduct erosion-control work on streams, and be subject to a prohibitory injunction to resolve alleged...

UNITED STATES AND TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY REACH AGREEMENT FOR DECADE-LONG NONCOMPLIANCE WITH CLEAN AIR ACT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

News Releases from Headquarters Toyota Admits Conduct and Accepts Responsibility in Consent Decree; Agrees to Injunctive Relief and Civil Penalty 01/14/2021 Contact Information:  WASHINGTON (January 14, 2021) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the United States has filed and simultaneously settled a...