Washington DC - March 11 - Nationwide air quality has improved significantly for six common air pollutants and emissions of toxic air pollutants, such as benzene, have declined about 40 percent nationwide between 1990 and 2005.

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Washington DC - March 4 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Government of India, and India’s Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry are hosting the 2nd Methane to Markets Partnership Expo in New Delhi.

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Washington DC - March 2 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges professional or aspiring filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justice movement.

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Washington DC - March 1 - Congressman Collin Peterson, House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton and Representative Jo Ann Emerson have introduced a Joint Resolution to repeal the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “endangerment finding”.

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Washington DC - February 26 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that 20 U.S. communities, including two Indian Tribes, will receive $7.8 million in grants for projects that will reduce greenhouse gases.

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Washington DC - February 23 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The  plan lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals over the next five years to help restore the lakes.

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Washington DC - February 22 - American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman called on Congress to adopt a resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” and the proposed regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

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Washington DC - February 19 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is setting the first standards that will reduce emissions of formaldehyde, benzene, acrolein and other toxic air pollutants from certain stationary diesel engines.

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Washington DC - February 16 - The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its finding that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are an endangerment to public health and welfare (“endangerment finding”).

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Washington DC - February 11 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced that 35 midwest communities have joined its Community Climate Change Initiative and committed to take action to reduce their town’s carbon footprint.

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Washington DC - February 5 - EPA is requesting an increase in support to tribal programs to address critical needs in assessing environmental conditions on tribal lands and building environmental programs tailored to tribal needs.

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Washington DC - February 5 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released action plans developed by 22 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer.

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Washington DC - February 3 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) announced the creation of the State Energy Efficiency Action Network.  This network is meant to help states achieve maximum cost effective energy efficiency improvements in homes, offices, buildings and industry by 2020.

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Washington DC -January 26 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new national air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). This new one-hour standard will protect millions of Americans from peak short-term exposures, which primarily occur near major roads.

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Washington DC - January 22 - As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals.

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