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Court tosses EPA delay on greenhouse gas biofuel rules
The EPA failed to spell out what the delay, known as the deferral rule, would accomplish.
MSD reaches tentative $4.7 billion deal
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District plans to spend $4.7 billion over 23 years to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the Environmental Protection Agency over violations of the Clean Water Act.
McCaskill, Bond split on greenhouse gases vote
Missouri’s two senators were on opposite sides of an effort to block President Obama’s administration from moving ahead with rules on greenhouse gas emissions. Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was in the majority Thursday as the Senate voted 53-47 to stop a Republican-led effort to restrain the Environmental Protection Agency. Republican Sen. Kit Bond was on […]
$135M flows to Missouri in Superfund settlement
A settlement in the largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history last week will bring about $135 million to Missouri to help clean up five Superfund sites. The sites – three in southeastern Missouri and two in the southwestern part of the state – are among more than 80 Superfund sites in 19 states receiving […]
Missouri to get $70 million in Superfund settlement
Five Superfund sites in Missouri will receive more than $70 million stemming from a settlement in the largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency said today. The sites – three in southeastern Missouri and two in the southwestern part of the state – are among more than 80 Superfund sites […]
EPA adds local site to priority list for cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has placed a portion of southwest Jefferson County on its federal Superfund National Priorities List. The NPL is a list of the nation’s hazardous waste sites with the highest priority for cleanup. The site, known as the Southwest Jefferson County Mining Site, encompasses approximately 166 square miles including the towns […]
Environmental: Clean Water Act – State Waters List
Thomas, et al. v. Jackson, et al. (MLW No. 59657/Case No. 08-2152 – 16 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Melloy, J.) Where plaintiffs brought an action under the Administrative Procedure Act arguing that Environmental Protection Agency violated several aspects of the Clean Water Act when it approved a state list of waters that […]
Superfunds have become little less super
Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act – commonly known by its acronym CERCLA, or even more widely as Superfund – in 1980. Soon after enactment, CERCLA began to change the landscape, both figuratively and literally. Organized around the principles that hazardous contamination of soil and water should be cleaned up, and […]
EPA, Independence reach agreement over sewer system
The federal government and the city of Independence have reached a settlement aimed to force improvements to the city's sewer system. Under the proposed settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City last week, Independence agreed to make improvements to its sewer system to end the sewage overflows. The EPA estimates the cost of those improvements at $35 million.
EPA, Independence reach agreement over sewer system
The federal government and the city of Independence have reached a settlement aimed to force improvements to the city’s sewer system. The Environmental Protection Agency says the city’s system has repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act, sending millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the Missouri River since 2000. Under a proposed settlement filed in […]
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