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Archived News Releases - 2004 and older
- EPA Releases Interim Record of Decision
on Omaha Lead Site (Updated 12/16/04)
- EPA Celebrates Safe Drinking Water Act's
30th Anniversary and Nebraska's Protection of Public Health (Updated
12/15/04)
- EPA Celebrates Safe Drinking Water Act's
30th Anniversary and Missouri's Protection of Public Health (Updated
12/15/04)
- EPA Celebrates Safe Drinking Water Act's
30th Anniversary and Kansas' Protection of Public Health(Updated
12/15/04)
- EPA Celebrates Safe Drinking Water Act's
30th Anniversary and Iowa's Protection of Public Health (Updated
12/15/04)
- St. Louis County and Missouri Developer
Cited for Clean Water Act Violations (Updated 12/10/04)
- EPA Approves Iowa's Water Quality Standards
(Updated 12/6/04)
- Potawatomi Tribe, Kansas Department of
Agriculture and EPA to Sign Agreement for Pesticides Activities
(Updated 11/9/04)
- EPA Awards Nearly $50,000 in EJ Grants
for Kansas City and Omaha (Updated 10/29/04)
- EPA Takes the Mid-America Company Site
off the Superfund List (Updated 10/25/04)
- EPA Scientist to Present Research at Geological
Society Meeting (Updated 10/20/04)
- Regional Administrator to Join Students
& Edgerton Mayor to Commemorate World Water Monitoring Day (Updated
10/20/04)
- EPA Extends its Public Comment Period
for the Omaha Lead Site Proposed Plan to November 1, 2004 and Holds
Availability Sessions for the Public (Updated 10/19/04)
- National Wetlands Symposium - Kansas City,
Oct. 19-20 Wetlands and Migratory Birds: Protecting and Restoring Wetlands
of International Significance (Updated 10/18/04)
- EPA Chief Presents $150,000 Grant to
Clean School Bus for Kids Project (Updated 10/05/04)
- EPA Chief Brings $250,000 to Iowa to Help
Control School Bus Exhaust (Updated 10/05/04)
- EPA Chief Brings $300,000 to Springfield
for Work on Brownfields (Updated 10/05/04)
- Governor Johanns to Join EPA Administrator
for Presentation of $150,000 Clean School Bus Grant to Lincoln Public
Schools (Updated 10/05/04)
- EPA Administrator to Tour Omaha Lead
Cleanup Site at Congressman Terry's Invitation; Mayor Fahey, Governor
Johanns, HUD Director to Join Tour (Updated 10/05/04)
- EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt to Present
$250,000 Clean School Bus Grant to Iowa's Bus Emission Education Project
at Des Moines Event Tuesday (Updated 10/04/04)
- EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt to Present
$300,000 Brownfields Grant to City of Springfield (Updated 10/04/04)
- First Annual Healthy Indoor Environments
Conference Offers Valuable Sessions on Mold, Radon, Asbestos, Pest Management
and More (Updated 9/29/04)
- EPA Proposes Listing the Parkview Well
Site to the NPL (Updated 9/28/04)
- EPA Extends its Public Comment Period
for the Omaha Lead Site Proposed Plan to October 15, 2004 (Updated
9/28/04)
- Cardinals President to be Closing Speaker
Today at National Brownfields 2004 Conference, Public Meeting to Discuss
Proposed Superfund Rule (Updated 09/22/04)
- National Brownfields 2004 Conference in
St.Louis Offers Valuable Information Sessions, Phoenix Award Presented
to Local Hotels (Updated 09/21/04)
- Kansas City Federal Community to Celebrate
Citywide 2004 Combined Federal Campaign Kickoff (Updated 09/17/04)
- EPA Approves Most of Latest Kansas Water
Quality Standards (Updated 09/10/04)
- EPA Environmental Excellence Awards Go
to 13 Regional Organizations (Updated 09/10/04)
- EPA Awards More Than $185,000 For Environmental
Education Grants (Updated 09/03/04)
- EPA Performing Mercury Cleanup at Private
Residence in Clinton, Iowa (Updated 09/01/04)
- EPA Oversees Cleanup and Demolition of
$7 Million Arsenic Project (Updated 09/01/04)
- Free Brownfields Conference Helps Put
Abandoned Lands to New Use - Coralville & Clinton, Iowa (Updated
08/16/04)
- Free Brownfields Conference Helps Put
Abandoned Lands to New Use - Kansas City area (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free
Brownfields Conference Helps Put Abandoned Lands to New Use - St. Louis
(Updated 08/16/04)
- Free Brownfields Conference Helps Put
Abandoned Lands to New Use - Springfield, Mo. (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free Brownfields Conference Helps Put
Abandoned Lands to New Use - Chicago (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free
Brownfields Conference Helps Put Abandoned Lands to New Use - Cincinnati,
Ohio (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free
Brownfields Conference Helps Put Abandoned Lands to New Use - Indianapolis
(Updated 08/16/04)
- Free
Brownfields Conference Helps Put Abandoned Lands to New Use - Little
Rock & Fort Smith, Ark. (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free
Brownfields Conference Helps Put Abandoned Lands to New Use - Louisville,
Ky. (Updated 08/16/04)
- Free Brownfields Conference Helps Put
Abandoned Lands to New Use - Knoxville, Tenn. (Updated 08/16/04)
- EPA Reviews Air Monitoring from St. Louis
Airport Demolition Activities (Updated 08/10/04)
- EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt Recognizes
Successful Water Quality Collaboration (Updated 08/09/04)
- Free Children's Health Fair to Offer Lead
Screenings, Demonstrations (Updated 08/02/04)
- EPA Proposes to Remove the Mid-America
Tanning Company, Sergeant Bluff, IA Site from the Superfund List
(Updated 07/28/04)
- EPA Official to Speak at Radiation Emergency
Response Exercise Press Conference (Updated 07/26/04)
- EPA to Hold Radiation Emergency Response
Exercise in Fort Leavenworth Area (Updated 07/26/04)
- EPA Places Annapolis Lead Mine Site on
the National Priorities List (Updated 07/26/04)
- EPA Releases It's Proposed Plan for the
Oronogo-Duenweg Mining Belt Superfund Site for Public Review and Comment
(Updated 07/23/04)
- Iowa Watershed Project to Get $1 Million
Grant for Nitrate Reduction (Updated 07/21/04)
- EPA Releases its Proposed Plan for the
Omaha Lead Site for Public Review and Comment (Updated 07/19/04)
- EPA to Award Brownfields Grant to Kansas
City (Updated 06/25/04)
- EPA to Award Brownfields Grants to St.
Louis (Updated 06/25/04)
- EPA to Award Brownfields Grants to Heartland
Foundation (Updated 06/25/04)
- EPA Acting Deputy Administrator will Deliver
Remarks at Kansas Kickoff of Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration
(Updated 06/24/04)
- Participants Sought for EPA Outreach on
Mercury Exposure Through Fish Consumption (Updated 06/23/04)
- EPA To Award Brownfields Grants to Coralville
(Updated 06/17/04)
- EPA To Award Brownfields Grants to Cedar
Rapids (Updated 06/17/04)
- EPA Awards Almost $4 Million to Iowa and
Missouri to Revitalize Blighted Communities (Updated 06/17/04)
- EPA Approves Majority of Iowa's Water
Quality Standards (Updated 06/16/04)
- Kansas City, Kan., St. Louis Groups each
get $100,000 Environmental Justice Grants (Updated 06/08/04)
- Missouri Developer Cited for Clean Water
Act Violations (Updated 06/03/04)
- EPA Opens Presidential Environmental
Youth Awards Competition (Updated 05/27/04)
- Environmental Management Systems: Do They
Make Sense for Agriculture? (Updated 05/24/04)
- EPA Administrator Leavitt to Visit Kansas
City to Discuss New Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule (Updated 05/12/04)
- EPA Approves Nebraska's Impaired Waters
List (Updated 04/30/04)
- True Manufacturing Co. to Cut Air Emissions
and Pay Penalty to Settle Clean Air Act Claims (Updated 04/30/04)
- Sprint World Headquarters Receives 2004
Green Power Award (Updated 04/21/04)
- EPA Finds St. Louis Area Out of Compliance
With Ozone Standard (Updated 04/16/04)
- Kansas City Area Remains in Compliance
With One-Hour Ozone Standard; Further Evaluation Needed for Decision
on Eight-Hour Standard (Updated 04/16/04)
- EPA Awards $125,000 Grant to St. Louis
Community College (Updated 04/05/04)
- EPA Awards More Than $84,000 for Environmental
Justice Grants (Updated 03/19/04)
- EPA Selects Consultants to Help Improve
Environment in Des Moines (Updated 03/15/04)
- EPA Awards Financial Assistance to Seven
Organizations in Celebration of Earth Day (Updated 03/11/04)
- West Branch Middle School Science Club
Project Wins Presidential Environmental Youth Award (Updated 03/10/04)
- Tenth Regional Wetlands and Water Resources
Meeting New Protection Challenges for Unprotected Waterbodies (Updated
03/10/04)
- Tenth Regional Wetlands and Water Resources
Meeting New Protection Challenges for Unprotected Waterbodies (Updated
03/10/04)
- Iowa's Maytag Corporation Receives 2004
Energy Star Award (Updated 03/09/04)
- EPA Settlement Reduces Air Pollution
at Refinery and Ensures Cleanup of Hazardous Wastes (Updated 03/09/04)
- EPA Region 7 Environmental Justice Research
Grants Available (Updated 03/04/04)
- Kansas City Employers Recognized for Commuter
Benefits (Updated 02/06/04)
- EPA Awards KDHE and Leavenworth Over $1
Million Dollars in Brownfields Funds (Updated 02/02/04)
- EPA Seeks Consultant to Help Improve Environment
in Des Moines (Updated 01/13/04)
- EPA Settles with 8 Parties
at Hastings Ground Water Contamination Site (Updated 12/24/03)
- EPA Announces Amended
Decision on Missouri's List of Imparied Waters
(Updated 12/18/03)
- EPA Emphasizing Environmental
Benefits in Enforcement (Updated 12/18/03)
- EPA to Award Brownfield
Grants to City of Columbia and Missouri Department of Natural Resources
(Updated 12/03/03)
- EPA Announces Amended
Decision on Iowa's Impaired Waters List (Updated 11/20/03)
- EPA to Award Brownfields
Grants to City of St. Louis (Updated 11/20/03)
- EPA to Award Brownfield
Grants to City of Des Moines and Iowa Department of Natural Resources
(Updated 11/20/03)
- Kansas City Responds
to California Wildfires (Updated 11/18/03)
- EPA Conducts Indoor Dust
Sampling in Support of Omaha Lead Site Risk Assessment (Updated
11/12/03)
- EPA Approves Most of
Latest Kansas Water Quality Standards (Updated 11/12/03)
- EPA Investigating Groundwater
Contamination in Grand Island (Updated 10/29/03)
- Blue Valley Schools win
Honors for Air Quality Protection (Updated 10/29/03)
- EPA Regional Administrator
to Help Reopen Nature Trail and Commemorate World Water Monitoring Day
in Kansas City, Kansas (Updated 10/28/03)
- EPA Places the Newton
County Mine Tailings Site on the National Priorities List (NPL)
(Updated 10/23/03)
- EPA Places the Madison
County Mines Site on the National Priorities List (NPL) (Updated
10/23/03)
- EPA Awards more than
$170,000 for Environmental Education Grants (Updated 10/17/03)
- EPA Recognizes Rockwell
Collins for Multiple Membership in The National Environmental Performance
Track Program (Updated 10/10/03)
- Kansas Refinery Settlement
to Cut Harmful Air Emissions More than 3,000 Tons a Year (Updated
10/03/03)
- EPA Region 7 to Hold
Small Grants Workshop (Updated 10/01/03)
- Construction Sites in
Kansas City & St. Louis Areas Cited for Clean Water Act Violations
(Updated 09/16/03)
- EPA Announces Six Pollution
Prevention Award Winners for 2003 (Updated 09/16/03)
- Environmental Justice
Collaborative Problem-Solving Grants Available (Updated 09/12/03)
- EPA Recognizes Lineville,
Iowa Wastewater Treatment Facility for Excellence (Updated 08/21/03)
- Gov. Vilsack Key Speaker
at 8/21 Rathbun Lake Event (Updated 08/21/03)
- EPA Approves Majority
of Nebraska's Water Quality Standards (Updated 08/15/03)
- EPA Approves Portion
of Kansas Water Quality Standards (Updated 08/11/03)
- EPA Selects Mr. Clintel
Betts for the 2003 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award
(Updated 08/01/03)
- EPA Extends Public Comment
Period for Proposed Decisions on Missouri's Impaired Waters List
(Updated 07/08/03)
- EPA Revises Kansas Water
Quality Standards (Updated 07/08/03)
- EPA Proposes the Madison
County Mines Site to the National Priorities List (NPL) (Updated
06/25/03)
- EPA Places Omaha Lead
Site on the National Priorities List NPL) (Updated 06/25/03)
- EPA Awards Almost $4
Million to Iowa, Kansas and Missouri to Revitalize Blighted Communities
(Updated 06/23/03)
- Local Watershed Group
to Receive $300,000 From EPA (Updated 06/09/03)
- Tree Planting to Commemorate
Completion of Cleanup at Former Diller Battery Superfund Site (Updated
06/06/03)
- Urban Environmental Outreach
Program for Kids Project Receives Presidential Environmental Youth Award
(Updated 05/28/03)
- EPA: St. Louis Meets
One-Hour Ozone Standard (Updated 05/15/03)
- Two Watershed Organizations
in Midwest Chosen to Get EPA Grants (Updated 05/12/03)
- EPA Administrator in
Kansas City Friday, May 9, for New Science and Technology Center Dedication
(Updated 05/08/03)
- EPA to Hold Environmental
Justice Listening Session (Updated 05/06/03)
- Oakhill Day School Educator
Receives EPA's Educators' Environmental Excellence Award (Updated
05/05/03)
- EPA Seeking Public Comment
on Proposed Decisions on Missouri's Impaired Waters List (Updated
04/30/03)
- State, Local, Business
Officials Join EPA Regional Administrator in Earth Day Press Availiabiltiy
Session Tuesday, April 22 (Updated 04/22/03)
- EPA Conducts Listening
Session on the Environment and Aging (Updated 04/11/03)
- EPA Looking for Pollution
Prevention Award-Winning Programs (Updated 04/02/03)
- EPA Offers Four Toxics
Release Inventory Reporting Workshops (Updated 04/01/03)
- EPA to Hold Environmental
Justice Listening Session in St. Louis (Updated 03/31/03)
- New Energy Conservation
Program, Home Performance with Energy Star, Debuts in Kansas City
(Updated 03/20/03)
- EPA Administrator Visits
Microfinish Company, Warrenton, to Support Small Business and Stress
Importance of President's Clear Skies Plan (Updated 03/18/03)
- EPA Region 7 Lends Support
to Massive Cleanup Effort Along Kansas City Riverbanks (Updated
03/14/03)
- EPA to Honor Six Local
Agencies for Exceptional Actions to Protect Water Quality in the Midwest
(Updated 03/14/03)
- EPA Administrator Visits
Cox Design and Metal Fabrication, Altoona, to Support Small Business
and Stress Importance of President's Clear Skies Plan (Updated 03/14/03)
- Iowa, Nebraska, Facilities
Join List of Top Environmental Peformers (Updated 03/06/03)
- Kansas City EPA Office
Assisting with Columbia Recovery Efforts (Updated 02/12/03)
- Kingsville, Missouri
Auction Service Fined for Failing to Share Lead Based Paint House Hazards
(Updated 02/05/03)
- EPA Takes Air Quality
Actions in St. Louis (Updated 01/23/03)
- Environmental Education
Grants are now Available (Updated 01/08/03)
- EPA Region 7 and Becon Energy Center Launch
New Method for Manufacturing Plastics (Updated 01/03/03)
- EPA Administrator Signs Revisions to Regulations
for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (Updated 12/23/2002)
- EPA Administrator Delivers $1 Million to Help
Kansas Clean up Brownfields (Updated 11/08/2002)
- EPA Region 7 Awards Lincoln University $50,000
Grant for Technical Assistance (Updated 11/04/2002)
- EPA Region 7 to Hold Environmental Justice
Grants Workshop, Recognition Ceremony (Updated 11/01/2002)
- EPA Region 7 Environmental Justice Small Grants
Now Available (Updated 11/01/2002)
- EPA Conducts Brownfields Funding Workshops
(Updated 10/17/2002)
- Roosevelt High School Students, Faculty to
Receive EPA Awards for Their Clean Air Awareness Video (Updated
10/17/2002)
- St. Louis Industry Participants and Stakeholder
Advisory Groups to Receive EPA Awards for Two Environmental Initiatives
(Updated 10/17/2002)
- Three St. Louis Environmental Champions to
Receive EPA Awards for Environmental Contributions (Updated 10/17/2002)
- Anheuser-Busch and Spartech to Receive National
Pollution Prevention Awards from EPA Regional Administrator (Updated
10/17/2002)
- IBP's New EPA Permit for Wastewater to Result
in Significant Cuts in Ammonia Discharges (Updated 10/17/2002)
- Clean Water Act 30th Anniversary to be Celebrated
& Commemorated by EPA Region 7 Administrator, Staff & Midwest Communities
(Updated 10/17/2002)
- EPA Awards more than $99,000 for Environmental
Justice Grants (Updated 10/11/2002)
- EPA Awards $50,000 Grant to St. Louis Community
College to Train Underemployed(Updated 10/02/2002)
- EPA Region 7 to Host Contacts for Contracts
Government Expo(Updated 10/01/02)
- Oak Grove Village, MO Site Added to Superfund
List(Updated 9/10/02)
- Railroad Avenue, West Des Moines, IA Site Added
to Superfund List(Updated 9/09/02)
- Independence, MO School District Receives EPA
Excellence Award for Indoor Air Program(Updated 9/09/02)
- EPA Region 7 States Get $1.6 Million to Help
Share Data(Updated 9/05/02)
- EPA Announces Nine Pollution Prevention Award
Winners for 2002(Updated 9/05/02)
- Lead Soil Cleanup to Start in Lawrence County,
MO(Updated 9/05/02)
- 3M Plant in Nevada, MO., is One of 23 New Members
Added to EPA National Environmental Performance Track Program(Updated
8/28/02)
- Regional Administrator Announces $160K in Grants
for Des Moines, IA(Updated 8/12/02)
- EPA Region 7 Awards Nebraska Schools and Organizations
$37,568 in Environmental Education Grants(Updated 8/02/02)
- EPA Region 7 Awards Iowa Schools and Organizations
$63,415 in Environmental Education Grants(Updated 8/02/02)
- EPA Region 7 Awards Kansas Schools and Organizations
$41,975 in Environmental Education Grants(Updated 8/02/02)
- EPA Region 7 Awards Missouri Schools and Organizations
$48,833 in Environmental Education Grants(Updated 8/02/02)
- Governor Whitman's Visit to Kanas
City, July 25, 2002(Updated 7/30/02)
- EPA Region 7 Will Hold Four Information Sharing
Meetings in Thurston County, NE, to Inform the Community of EPA's Responsibilities
and Ongoing Program Activities(Updated 7/25/02)
- EPA Awards Grant to Help Safeguard Nation's
Drinking Water Supply(Updated 7/10/02)
- EPA To Present U.S. Flags, Guides to Wyandotte
County Groups, Marking Upcoming Lewis & Clark Bicentennial(Updated
7/08/02)
- Lead Soil Cleanup to Start in Lawrence County,
MO(Updated 07/02/02)
- EPA Announces 40 USTfields 2002 Pilot Recipients,
3 from Region 7(Updated 07/02/02)
- New Data Show How Heartland will Benefit from
Clear Skies Initiative (Update 07/02/02)
- EPA Announces Additional Funding to Make Abandoned
Iowa Properties Prosper(Updated 06/14/02)
- EPA Announces Additional Funding to Make Abandoned
Nebraska Properties Prosper(Updated 06/14/02)
- Public Hearing on a Proposed Wastewater Permit,
Sioux City, NE(Updated 06/10/02)
- EPA Signs with Warehouse Owner to Conduct Cleanup
(Update 05/31/02)
- May 20, 2002 - Volunteer Firefighters to be
recognized, Nebraska City, NE(Updated 05/20/02)
- January 1, 2002 - EPA Chose the Hawkeye Community
College, Watterloo, IA for Brownfields Job Training and development
Demonstration Pilot (Updated 05/06/02)
- May 3, 2002 - Many Working on Commuter Choice
Toward Meeting Ozone Standard for St. Louis (Updated 05/06/02)
- May 1, 2002 - EPA Announces the Upcoming Brownfields
Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina (Updated 05/03/02)
- May 1, 2002 - Children's Environmental Art Contest
Awards Ceremony (Updated 05/03/02)
- April 11, 2002 - Reeds Springs High School "R"
Project Receives Presidental Environmental Youth Award (Updated
04/26/02)
- April 22, 2002 - EPA and Missouri Botanical
Gardens to Recognize Groups That Improve Health and Environment of St.Louis
Residents (Updated 04/25/02)
- April 10, 2002 - EPA Provides Sampling Results
to 583 Residents in Omaha, NE (Updated 04/11/02)
- March 27, 2002 - EPA Looking for Pollution Prevention
Award-Winning Programs (Updated 04/04/02)
- April 2, 2002 - EPA Offers Grants to Help Safeguard
Nation's Drinking Water Supply (Updated 04/03/02)
- March 22, 2002 - EPA Administrator Visits Des
Moines Children's Hospital to Stress Importance of President's Clear
Skies Plan (Updated 03/26/02)
- March 21, 2002 - EPA Administrator Christie
Whitman Highlights Importance of President's Clear Skies Plan During
Visit to Iowa (Updated 03/26/02)
- March 13, 2002 - EPA Launches Campaign about
Saving Money and Energy, Protecting Environment (Updated 03/21/02)
- March 6, 2002 - EPA to Conduct Oil Spill Prevention
Workshops for Bulk Storage Facilities (Updated 03/08/02)
- March 6, 2002 - EPA to Conduct Oil Spill Prevention
Workshops for Oil Producing Facilities (Updated 03/08/02)
- March 5, 2002 - EPA Recognizes Bancroft, NE,
Wastewater Treatment Facility for Excellence (Updated 03/08/02)
- March 1, 2002 - EPA Proposes Listing the Omaha
Lead Site to the NPL (Updated 03/08/02)
- February 19,2002 - EPA to Conduct Workshops
on Toxic Release Reporting Requirements (Updated 02/20/02)
- January 25, 2002 - Iowa Ranch Receives EPA Award
for Environmental Excellence (Updated 02/08/02)
- February 1, 2002 - Volunteer Firefighters Hired
to Assist with Ongoing Nebraska City Tire Fire (Updated 02/05/02)
- January 17, 2002 - EPA, 13 Facilities Talk About
Environmental Improvement That Goes Beyond Compliance (Updated
01/31/02)
- January 9, 2002 - EPA Region 7 Environmental
Justice Small Grants Now Available (Updated 01/09/02)
- January 7, 2002 - Hawkeye Community College
Awarded $200,000 for New EPA Brownfields Job Training Pilot (Updated
01/14/02)
- December 21, 2001 - EPA Helps Protect Heculaneum
Children by Ordering Faster Lead Cleanup (Updated 12/27/01)
- November 26, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Announces
That Scott Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska is the Recipient of an EPA
Excellence Award for 2001 (Updated 12/07/01)
- September 25, 2001 - EPA Proposing To Take The
Farmers' Mutual Cooperative Site In Hospers, IA Off The Superfund List (Updated
12/06/01)
- December 3, 2001 - EPA Signs Agreement to Cleanup
the Former Diller Battery Superfund Site, Des Moines, IA (Updated
12/04/01)
- November 26, 2001 - EPA and KU Med Center Officials
Sign Agreement to Strengthen Ties, Give Latinos Resources (Updated
11/28/01)
- November 26, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Draft Interim
EJ Guidance and Policy Available for Public Comment (Updated 11/28/01)
- November 26, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Announces Scott
Middle School, Lincoln, NE, recipient of EPA Excellence Award 2001 (Updated
11/26/01)
- October 29, 2001 - Six Top Officials From The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Will Be On Hand During The
National Farm Broadcasters Convention In Kansas City, Nov. 14, 2001 (Updated
10/30/01)
- October 22, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Awards Iowa
Schools And Organizations $49,157 In Environmental Education Grants (Updated
10/30/01)
- October 22, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Awards Kansas
Schools And Organizations $37,840 In Environmental Education Grants (Updated
10/30/01)
- October 22, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Awards Missouri
Schools And Organizations $47,226 In Environmental Education Grants (Updated
10/30/01)
- October 22, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Awards Nebraska
Schools And Organizations $47,406 In Environmental Education Grants (Updated
10/30/01)
- October 16, 2001 - EPA Is Proposing To Put The
Oak Grove Village Well Site, Oak Grove, MO, On Its National Priorities
List (Updated 10/17/01)
- September 20, 2001 - EPA Announces the Request
for Proposals for 2002 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GRANTS (Updated
9/20/01)
- September 17, 2001 - EPA Region 7, MDNR, and
Lincoln University Form Partnership (Updated 9/20/01)
- September 4, 2001 - Local Emergency Planning
Committees (LEPCs) Protect Our Communities When There Are Risks To Citizens
From Accidents involving Hazardous Materials (Updated 9/06/01)
- August 14, 2001 - EPA Recognizes Dodge City
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant for Excellence (Updated 8/16/01)
- August 9, 2001 - EPA Announces Pollution Prevention
Award Winners for 2001 (Updated 8/13/01)
- July 20, 2001 - EPA and Department
of the Army Request Publc Assistance in Locating Drinking water Wells
on Residential Properties Near Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAP) in
Middletown, Iowa (Updated 8/10/01)
- August 7, 2001 - EPA Proposing to take the Times
Beach, Missouri Site Off the Superfund List (Updated 8/10/01)
- August 7, 2001 - EPA Proposing to take the
Shenandoah Stables Site Near Moscow Mills, Missouri Off the Superfund
List (Updated 8/10/01)
- August 6, 2001 - EPA Proposing to take the KEM-PEST
Site in Cape Girardea, MO Off the Superfund List (Updated 8/6/01)
- July 20, 2001 - EPA Proposing to take the Sheller-Globe
Corporation Disposal Site Off the Superefund List (Updated 8/10/01)
- June 15, 2001 - EPA Administrator Christie Whitman
Announces EPA Approval of States' Clean Air Plans for St. Louis Areas (Updated
6/18/01)
- June 5, 2001 - EPA to Host Community Open House
at Cleanup Site in Shenandoah (Updated 6/6/01)
- May 23, 2001 - EPA Looking for Pollution Prevention
Award-Winning Programs (Updated 5/25/01)
- May 16, 2001 - EPA Recognizes Boone Municipal
Wastewater Treatment Plant for Excellence (Updated 5/18/01)
- May 15, 2001 - EPA Recognizes Farmington Municipal
Wastewater Treatment Plant for Excellence (Updated 5/18/01)
- May 14, 2001 - EPA, NDEQ Lead Way in Sharing
Information on Regulated Facilities (Updated 6/11/01)
- May 9, 2001 - Chillicothe Middle School Teacher
Receives EPA's Educators' Environmental Excellence Award (Updated
5/14/01)
- May 9, 2001 - Wynot Teacher Receives EPA's
Educators' Environmental Excellence Award (Updated 5/14/01)
- May 9, 2001 - Butler Community College Teacher
Receives EPA's Educators' Environmental Excellence Award (Updated
5/14/01)
- May 9, 2001 - Pella Christian Grade School Teacher
Receives EPA's Educator's Environmental Excellence Award (Updated
5/14/01)
- May 8, 2001 - EPA Postponing Effective Date
for Non Attainment in St. Louis (Updated 5/9/01)
- May 1, 2001 - EPA Orders 21 Kansas Drinking
Water Suppliers to Let Customers Know What's in Their Water (Updated
5/4/01)
- May 3, 2001 - Omaha Lead Advisory (Updated
5/3/01)
- May 1, 2001 - Missouri River Oil Spill Cleanup
Oversight Completed (Updated 5/1/01)
- April 25, 2001 - EPA Announces More Than $2
Million to Make Abandoned Iowa Properties Prosper (Updated 4/30/01)
- April 18, 2001 - BP AMOCO TO PAY $804,700 FOR
CLEAN WATER ACT VIOLATIONS (Updated 4/20/01)
- April 18, 2001 - EPA Says It Is Responsible
For Walthill And Pender Wastewater Treatment Plant Permits (Updated
4/18/01)
- April 17, 2001 - Editors: Get an Early Jump
on Local Earth Day Photo Ops and Stories (Updated 4/18/01)
- April 12, 2001 - EPA Engineer from Lenexa is
Federal Engineer of the Year (Updated 4/13/01)
- April 6, 2001 - Oil Producers Can Learn More
About How To Prevent Oil Spills (Updated 4/6/01)
- March 15, 2001 - Kansas City Utility to Pay
$1 Million for Clean Water Act Violations (Updated 3/26/01)
- March 5, 2001 - CAFO Meeting on Proposed Feedlot
Regulations (Updated 3/6/01)
- February 27, 2001 - Nebraska Firm to Pay $35,000
for Pesticide Violations (Updated 2/28/01)
- February 27, 2001 - Missouri River Oil Spill
Update (Updated 2/28/01)
- February 21, 2001 - EPA will Conduct Workshops
on Reporting Requirements for Toxic Releases (Updated 2/21/01)
- February 20, 2001 - Missouri River Oil Spill
Update (Updated 2/21/01)
- February 8, 2001 - Missouri River Oil Spill
Update (Updated 2/12/01)
- February 1, 2001 - EPA Region 7 Environemtnal
Justice Small Grants Now Available (Updated 2/1/01)
- December 26, 2000 - Ten Charter Members in EPA's
Achievement Track Program are from Region 7 (Updated 12/26/00)
- December 21, 2000 - EPA Announces Western Iowa
Tech Community College as a Brownfields Job Training Pilot (Updated
12/21/00)
- December 19, 2000 - Oil Spill Update (Updated
12/20/00)
- December 11, 2000 - EPA Continues to Monitor
Safe Cleanup of Oil Spill (Updated 12/12/00)
- December 7, 2000 - EPA Working to Insure Safe
Cleanup of Oil Release (Updated 12/11/00)
- November 27, 2000 - Tenneco Pays $30,000 Fine,
Will Complete Environmental Project to Settle Air Violations (Updated
11/29/00)
- November 13, 2000 - EPA Seeks $93,500 from Pesticide
Distributor for Misbranding (Updated 11/13/00)
- November 7, 2000 - Sedalia landords face fine
for violations of lead-based paint regulations (Updated 11/8/00)
- October 31, 2000 - EPA announces the State of
Missouri as an UST fields pilot (Updated 11/8/00)
- November 1, 2000 - Grain Processors are Offered
Voluntary Air Compliance Audit Program by EPA (Updated 11/1/00)
- Ocotber 20, 2000 - Lewis & Clark Redevelopment
Receives Phoenix Award (Updated 10/25/00)
- Ocotber 18, 2000 - EPA seeks $70,000 Penalty
for wetlands damage in Perkins county, Nebraska (Updated 10/19/00)
- October 12, 2000 - Noranda Aluminum, Inc. pays
$120,000 penalty for alleged RCRA violations (Updated 10/13/00)
- October 10, 2000 - Nahant Marsh Superfund Site:
Celebrating Its Future Use (Updated 10/13/00)
- October 2, 2000 - Contractors must provide lead-based
paint booklet to owners and residents before repairing and/or remodeling
housing built before 1978 (Updated 10/4/00)
- September 1, 2000 - EPA Plans Information Session
Prior To Hearings On Water Quality Standards For Kansas (Updated
10/2/00)
- September 19, 2000 - Interstate Power Company
Agrees to Acid Rain Consent Decree (Updated 09/20/00)
- July 31, 2000 - Interstate Power Company Reaches
Settlement on Acid Rain Complaint (Updated 09/18/00)
- August 31, 2000 - EPA Orders 101 Missouri Drinking
Water Suppliers To Let Customers Know What's In Their Water (Updated
09/15/00)
- September 14, 2000 - EPA Announces Pollution
Prevention Award Winners for 2000 (Updated 09/15/00)
- September 11, 2000 - Largest Ozone Protection
Program Settlement Reached (PDF) (Updated 09/11/00)
- September 7, 2000 - EPA Region 7 responding
to spill on the Missouri River (Updated 09/11/00)
- August 31, 2000 - Indianola, IA, Community School
District receives EPA Excellence Award for its indoor air program (Updated
09/1/00)
- August 23, 2000 - EPA Proposes $88,000 Fine
in Olathe, Kansas, Diesel Spill (Updated 08/23/00)
- August 17, 2000 - Missouri Plan to Reduce Nitrogen
Oxide (NOx) (Updated 08/18/00)
- August 3, 2000 - EPA TO HOLD AN ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE FORUM (Updated 08/4/00)
- July 31, 2000 - REFINERY AGREES TO PAY $600,000
FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS (Updated 08/2/00)
- July 26, 2000 - EPA RESCHEDULES HEARING ON FEDERAL
WATER QUALITY STANDARDS (Updated 07/31/00)
- July 21, 2000 - MEMO TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS (Updated
08/8/00)
- July 21, 2000 - EPA TO CONDUCT OIL SPILL PREVENTION
WORKSHOPS ON SPCC REGULATIONS (Updated 07/24/00)
- July 11, 2000 - LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY MANAGERS
FACE PROPOSED FINES FOR VIOLATIONS OF LEAD PAINT DISCLOSURE REGULATIONS (Updated
07/12/00)
- July 7, 2000 - EPA ORDERS 99 KANSAS DRINKING
WATER SUPPLIERS TO LET CUSTOMERS KNOW WHAT'S IN THEIR WATER (Updated
07/00)
- July 10, 2000 - LEAD SAFE OMAHA COALITION COMPLETES
PLAN TO ADDRESS CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING (Updated 07/11/00)
- June 22, 2000 - EPA FILES ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS
AGAINST DISPOSAL FACILITIES IN IOWA, KANSAS, AND MISSOURI (Updated
06/23/00)
- June 19, 2000 - EPA PROPOSES FEDERAL WATER QUALITY
STANDARDS FOR KANSAS (Updated 06/23/00)
- June 5, 2000 - WEST BRANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER
RECEIVES EPA REGION 7's 1999-2000 EDUCATORS' ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
AWARD (Updated 06/7/00)
- June 5, 2000 - TOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL TEACHER
RECEIVES EPA REGION 7's 1999-2000 EDUCATORS' ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
AWARD (Updated 06/7/00)
- June 5, 2000 - UMKC PROFESSOR RECEIVES EPA
REGION 7's 1999-2000 EDUCATOR'S ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARD (Updated
06/7/00)
- June 5, 2000 - TECUMSEH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER
RECEIVES EPA REGION 7's 1999-2000 EDUCATORS' ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE
AWARD (Updated 06/7/00)
- May 22, 2000 - EPA Region 7 Announces $1,800,000
in Brownfields Grants (Updated 05/26/00)
- May 19, 2000 - EPA to Hold Public Meeting on
Wastewater Treatment Services within Missouri's Meramec River Basin (Updated
05/19/00)
- May 18, 2000 - EPA to Conduct Oil Spill Prevention
Workshops on SPCC Regulations (Updated 05/18/00)
- May 11, 2000 - Kansas Army National Guard Receives
EPA Order for Improper Use of A/C Recycling Equipment (Updated
05/11/00)
- May 10, 2000 - EPA Approves Missouri Plans for
Cleaner Air in St. Louis (Updated 05/10/00)
- May 3, 2000 - Area Schools Receiving EPA Environmental
Green Apple Awards for Indoor Air Improvements (Updated 05/05/00)
- May 2, 2000 - EPA Announces Update on Omaha
Lead Contamination Removel Action (Updated 05/05/00)
- April 28, 2000 - Public Hearing on May 4 on
Permit for Mission Wastewater Treatment Complex (Updated 05/01/00)
- April 27, 2000 - EPA to Hold Meeting and Public
Hearing on Cleanup of Union Pacific Shops (Updated 04/28/00)
- April 25, 2000 - EPA to hold Public Hearing
on Kansas Application to Administer Lead-Based Paint Program Activities (Updated
04/28/00)
- April 21, 2000 - Walthill, Neb., Environmental
Livestock Production Project Awarded $250,000 EPA Grant (Updated
04/24/00)
- April 21, 2000 - Marshall, MO., Environmental,
Economic Project Awarded $70,000 EPA Grant (Updated 04/24/00)
- April 19, 2000 - Editors: Get an Early jump
on Local Earth Day Photo Ops and Stories (Updated 04/24/00)
- April 14, 2000 - Fort Dodge Second Grade Student
Wins Earth Day 2000 Poster Contest (Updated 04/24/00)
- April 12, 2000 - EPA Region 7 Announces $650,000
in Grants to Assess Environmental Conditions at Brownfields (Updated
04/24/00))
- April 12, 2000 - EPA to Conduct Toxic Release
Inventory Workshops on Reporting Requirements (Updated 04/24/00)
- April 7, 2000 - EPA Proposing to Approve Plans
to Cut Smog in St. Louis Area (Updated 04/24/00)
- April 10, 2000 - Earth Angels, St.Louis, Missouri,
Selected As A President's Environemntal Youth Awards Competition Winner (Updated
04/10/00)
- April 5, 2000 - EPA Recognizes Duckett Creek
Sanitary District Treatment Plant #2 for Excellence (Updated 04/05/00)
- March 29, 2000 - EPA Announces Update on Omaha
Lead Contamination Removal Action (Updated 03/31/00)
- March 22, 2000 - EPA to host Regional Radiological
Training in Topeka (Updated 03/24/00)
- March 10, 2000 - HAZMAT 2000 Spills Prevention
Conference to be held April 4-6 in St. Louis, MO (Updated 03/21/00)
- March 7, 2000 - EPA to Hold Public Availability
Session on Union Pacific's Cleanup Plan (Updated 03/21/00)
- February 24, 2000 - Public Meetings on Pollution
Limits for 3 Iowa Waters set for Week of March 6th (Updated 03/23/00)
- February 17, 2000 - EPA Actions Announced to
help St. Louis Reduce Ozone (Updated 03/23/00)
- February 16, 2000 - Pesticide Producers Face
March 1 Deadline to Avoid Fines (Updated 03/21/00)
- February 1, 2000 - EPA Announces Completion
of Cleanup at Properties in Omaha, More Qualify (Updated 02/03/00)
- December 16, 1999 - Tyson Foods Cited By EPA
For reporting Violations (Updated 12/17/99)
- December 13, 1999 - EPA Awards More than $100,000
for Environmental Justice Grants (Updated 12/13/99)
- September 9, 1999 - EPA Region 7's 1998-99 Educators
Environmental Excellence Award Winners Named (Updated 9/09/99)
- September 2, 1999 - LEPC Conference to be Held
in Kansas City, September 10-12 (Updated 9/02/99)
- August 20, 1999 - EPA Announces Pollution Prevention
Award Winners for 1999 (Updated 8/20/99)
- July 9, 1999 - ROTO-DIE Co., Eureka, Missouri,
Cited for Clean Air Act Violations (Updated 7/27/99)
- July 9, 1999 - EPA and U.S. Army demonstrate
Airborne Tests of Joint Program (Updated 7/27/99)
- June 28, 1999 - EPA Grants Second Extension
of Comment Period on Iowa's Impaired Waters (Updated 6/30/99)
- June 25, 1999 - PUBLIC NOTICE
-- Comment Period Extended to July 15, 1999 -- EPA is Seeking
Comments on Additional Water Quality-limited Streams, Rivers, and Lakes
in Iowa (Updated 6/25/99)
- June 4, 1999 - THE MIDWEST POLLUTION PREVENTION
(P2) Converence to be Held June 7-9, 1999 (Updated 6/04/99)
- June 1, 1999 - Tribal Workshop to be held at
Haskell Indian Nations University (Updated 6/03/99)
- May 21, 1999 - Potential Responsible Parties
Settle Liability (Updated 5/21/99)
- May 13, 1999 - EPA Issues Corrective Action
Order to Vickers, Inc., in Omaha (Updated 5/17/99)
- May 11, 1999 - EPA's Diversity Lecture Series
presents: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (Updated 5/12/99)
- May 10, 1999 - EPA/MDNR to Hold Public Availability
Session About Former AMOCO Sugar Creek Refinery (Updated 5/10/99)
- May 4, 1999 - EPA Issues Air Compliance Orders
to Iowa and Missouri Auto Shops (Updated 5/6/99)
- April 29, 1999 - EPA ADDS 115 WATER BODIES
TO IOWA'S LIST OF IMPAIRED WATER BODIES (Updated 5/6/99)
- April 29, 1999 - EPA REGION & PARTNERS WITH
HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY (Updated 5/4/99)
- April 30, 1999 - PUBLIC NOTICE
EPA is Seeking Comments on Additional Water Quality-limited Streams,
Rivers, and Lakes in Iowa (Updated 4/28/99)
- April 21, 1999 - HAPPY EARTH DAY! Join us and
more than 700 hundred fourth-graders in celebrating Earth Day April
22, 1999 (Updated 4/23/99)
- April 20, 1999 - EPA to honor school district
and Kiel Center for Energy Star Work at Earth Day Event (Updated 4/23/99)
- April 20, 1999 - Join us in celebrating Earth
Day April 21 and 22, 1999 (Updated 4/20/99)
- April 16, 1999 - U.S. EPA Partners with USD
500 to Monitor Area Streams (Updated 4/19/99)
- April 13, 1999 - Hendrix Family from Fulton,
Kansas,to Receive a President's Environmental Youth Award in Washington,
D.C. (Updated 4/14/99)
- April 6, 1999 - EPA Announces $104,539 Proposed
Penalty for Violations by city of Lincoln (Updated 4/8/99)
- March 22, 1999 - EPA and KDHE to conduct Availability
Session on LaFarge Corporation permit (Updated 4/5/99)
- March 23, 1999 - EPA Hearing on Walthill and
Pender Wastewater Treatment Plant Permits to be March 31 (Updated
3/25/99)
- March 15, 1999 - EPA to issue FR proposal on
attainment status of St. Louis area (Updated 3/19/99)
- February 26, 1999 - EPA final rule now includes
portions of St. Louis area in reformulated gasoline program (Updated
2/26/99)
- February 18, 1999 - EPA's Diversity Lecture
Series Presents: Fruits of Success (Updated 2/23/99)
- February 9, 1999 - City of Aurora, Missouri,
agrees to pay $57,500 to settle asbestos complaint (Updated 2/10/99)
- February 4, 1999 - Landlords fined under lead
paint disclosure regulations (Updated 2/10/99)
- February 2, 1999 - PUBLIC NOTICE
EPA is Seeking Comments on Additional Water Quality-limited Streams,
Rivers, and Lakes in Missouri (closes 2/4/99)
- January 21, 1999 - The New Madrid County, Missouri
Child Health Champion Campaign Kicks Off
- January 21, 1999 - EPA To Sponsor Annual Black
History Month Luncheon Program
- January 7, 1999 - EPA Removes Mercury from House
- January 6, 1999 - Environmental Justice Speak
ne_303d.htm">December 23, 1998 - PUBLIC NOTICE Clean Water Act Section
303(d): Public Notice Seeking Comments on Additional Water Quality-limited
Streams, Rivers, and Lakes in Nebraska (closes 1/23/99)
- December 8, 1998 - LaFarge Corporation is voluntarily
cooperating in an innovative research project
- November 30, 1998 - Sampling Scheduled for Former
USDA Grain Storage Locations in Missouri
- November 24, 1998 - Listening Session Scheduled
for Draft Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations
- November 18, 1998 - EPA RECOGNIZES BISSELL POINT
TREATMENT PLANT FOR EXCELLENCE
- November 12, 1998 - Proposals For EPA National
Brownfields Assessment Pilots Now Being Accepted
- November 10, 1998 - Seller Ordered To Stop Sale
of Untested Substitute Refrigerant
- November 2, 1998 - Administrator Grams to Present
1998 Wastewater Excellence Award
- October 21, 1998 - EPA recognizes four Kansas
Wastewater Treatment Systems for Excellence
- October 26, 1998 - The EPA awards 10 grants
to developor continue environmental justice projects
- October 2, 1998 - EPA APPROVAL WILL HELP PUT
IDLE PROPERTY BACK IN USE
- September 28, 1998 - Brownfields Showcase Communities
Kick-off Meeting
- September 23, 1998 - Ribbon tying during Brownfields
Showcase Communities Kick-off Meeting
- September 21, 1998 - EPA recognizes the Iowa
Water Pollution Control Association for Excellence
- September 15, 1998 - Proposed rule will include
St.Louis for reformulated gasoline
- September 16, 1998 - Private and public partners
are joining forces
- September 15, 1998 - 5,000th Superfund Removal
Action
- September 11, 1998 - Media Advisory - On September
15, 1998 EPA will celebrate the 5,000th Superfund removal action
- August 17, 1998 - EPA approves pilot waste handling
plan at Lincoln Company
- July 31, 1998 - Media Advisory - EPA extends
comment period for the Preferred Alternative - LeMar Drive and McDonnell
Park Sites to August 10, 1998
- July 29, 1998 - EPA addresses hazardous substances
at Des Moines properties
- July 23, 1998 - Nine companies cited for using
unacceptable refrigeranterate
- July 16, 1998 - Enforcement Initiative offered
to industries in Region 7
- June 29, 1998 - EPA presents Pollution Prevention
Awards to seven groups
- June 26, 1998 - Terra agrees to $750,000 settlement
to resolve EPA complaint
- June 16, 1998 - Sunbeam Products Agrees to $8
Millon Settlement
- June 10, 1998 - EPA to Help Businesses Cut Costs
in National Satellite Forum June 17
- May 29, 1998 - EPA to Help Businesses Cut Costs
at June 17 Wastewi$e Forum
- June 8, 1998 - EPA Region 7's 1997 Educators
Environmental Excellence Award Winners Named
- June 8, 1998 - EPA to Award Des Moines Water
Works (DMWW) $100,000 to Develop and Operate a Computer Environmental
Information Sharing Program.
- April 20, 1998 - EPA Negotiates Agreement with
Apex Printers Roller Co.
- April 20, 1998 - Texaco to Pay Penalties for
Oil Spills
- April 20, 1998 - Kansas City, Kansas/Wyandotte
County Earth Day Environmental Education Fair April 22 and 23, 1998
- April 14, 1998 - EPA Orders Manhattan, Kansas
to Comply with Sludge Use Rules
- March 24, 1998 - EPA Reaches Settlement with
Monsanto Over Labeling Violations on Some Roundup Products
- March 20, 1998 - EPA Will Honor West Branch
Middle School Science Club at an Award Ceremony in Washington D.C.
- February 20, 1998 - Platte River Basin Ecosystem
Symposium
- February 18, 1998 - Memorandum of Understanding
with Lincoln University
- February 11, 1998 - Company Pays $300,835; Complies
with Clean Air Act
- February 6, 1998 - EPA to Hold Availability
Session in Bancroft February 11
- January 16, 1998 - EPA Approves $14 Million
to Help Upgrade Kansas Water Supply Systems
- January 15, 1998 - EPA Looking for Pollution
Preventio n Award Winning Programs
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