Articles tagged as: EPA
December 1, 2023
EPA wants all lead drinking water pipes removed in 10 years. Can Indiana utilities do it?
That’s according to a proposed lead and copper rule the agency announced on Thursday in a big move to protect kids and vulnerable people from exposure.
Read MoreSeptember 12, 2023
Report: EPA needs to ensure CountryMark, other oil refineries control cancer-causing pollution
Oil refineries emit benzene a chemical that can cause cancer and other health problems. From 2018 to 2021, 25 oil refineries in the U.S. had high levels of benzene at their fence lines for more than two weeks after the plants should have taken action to lower them.
Read MoreJune 12, 2023
EPA aims to ban a cancer-causing chemical found in Franklin, Martinsville and other sites
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to phase out the use of PCE a chemical used in dry cleaning, products like brake cleaners and brake pad glue, and some industrial processes.
Read MoreApril 11, 2023
These industries use Reagan-era standards to control water pollution, groups sue for updates
Every five years, the EPA is supposed to review new pollution control technology and set stricter limits for pollutants as those treatments improve. But the standards for facilities like BP's Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana havent been updated since the '80s.
Read MoreApril 7, 2023
East Chicago residents, U.S. EPA raise concerns over plans to expand hazardous waste facility
Tradebe Treatment and Recycling, LLC wants to store hazardous waste for longer time periods than what's usually allowed.
Read MoreMarch 15, 2023
EPA aims to limit toxic PFAS in drinking water
The agency hopes the standards will prevent thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious illnesses.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2023
EPA rule to limit soot could save lives, especially in Indiana's metro areas
The EPA has proposed lowering the amount of soot from 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air to somewhere between 9 and 10. The agency said that could save about 4,200 lives every year.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2023
EPA to give out largest grant awards for environmental justice in its history
Unlike some other grants, state and local governments will have to work with community-based nonprofits to get that money and some will go to those nonprofits directly.
Read MoreOctober 26, 2022
Flexsteel will pay to clean up contaminated groundwater at Elkhart County Superfund site
An Elkhart County Superfund site may soon be getting cleaned up, after former RV furniture manufacturer Flexsteel Industries agreed to pay nearly $10 million to do so under a consent decree with the Department of Justice.
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2022
EPA moves to crack down on dangerous coal ash storage ponds
The EPA is denying requests by three Midwest power plants to extend operations of leaking or otherwise dangerous coal ash storage ponds. EPA says plants in Indiana, Ohio and Iowa will have to close coal ash ponds months or years ahead of schedule.
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