Incomplete (tip-o-the-iceberg) list of shenanigans and hypocrisies connected to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just for the week of March 1st through 5th, 2023.
What is an EPA SuperFund Site?
ILLINOIS: WFLD; EPA’s new emissions standards is about destroying independent tractor-trailer operators, only big corporations can afford the new EPA mandated trucks!
INDIANA: WXIN; revealed, company that is to take toxic waste from Ohio has past long history of federal and state environmental violations!
IOWA: The Des Moines Register; documents submitted to EPA reveal oil reclamation explosion and fire included burning asbestos!
MONTANA: This is from last month, but I missed it, and it is important. InvestigateWest; newly released documents, regarding a SuperFund Site near Butte, prove the EPA sides with corporate polluters!
NEBRASKA: Lincoln Star Journal; EPA tells residents that the massive toxic AltEn failed biorefinery will not be designated a Superfund Site, explains that by doing so it will put the clean-up cost burden onto the taxpayers!
NEW JERSEY: EPA; Occidental Chemical ordered to Design Cleanup Plan for the Upper Nine Miles of the Lower Passaic River at the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site.
OHIO: The Guardian; the real reason the EPA doesn’t want to test for toxins in East Palestine, because they will find it!
WTAE; East Palestine containment dam overflows; EPA, Norfolk Southern respond.
WKBN; water expert says EPA officials working in East Palestine don’t know what they are doing!
TEXAS: EPA; claims of significant air pollution reduction over the Permian Basin area.
UTAH: KTSU; University of Washington gets $1.2-million from EPA for water and soil testing in Utah.
WASHINGTON: EPA; Squaxin Island Tribe being allowed to finally manage and protect all surface waters within its reservation and trust lands.
Washington DC: Reuters; EPA wants to allow more ethanol in gasoline, is it actually about boosting corn sales?
SuccessfulFarming; EPA’s new ‘forever chemicals’/PFAS regulation will cost taxpayers at least $40-billion to comply!
EarthJustice; federal court supports EPA’s cross-state air pollution regulation!
EPA; announces fines for several companies caught illegally importing banned hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)!
EPA; the EPA itself says it is not doing enough to stop the use of wood burning stoves!
WasteDive; EPA begins $250-million in Environmental ‘Justice’/Climate Pollution Reduction Grant giveaways!
WISCONSIN: WBRC; EPA says it could take an additional month get put-out toxic Moody trash dump fire!
EPA Shenanigans for the month of February 2023: ARE THEY OVERWHELMED? TOXIC EVENTS ARE HAPPENING ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES!