COLUMBIA, S.C. (May 13, 2021) – This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $285,000 in grant funding to carry out beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs in South Carolina.

PHILADELPHIA (May 11, 2021) – EPA Mid-Atlantic Region Acting Regional Administrator Diana Esher today announced that Martha Shimkin of EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW), has been selected as Deputy Director for the Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO).

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced funding to carry out beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs in 30 states, five territories, and four Indian Nations.

CHICAGO (May 10,2021) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $50,000 in grant funding to carry out beach water quality monitoring and public notification programs to Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

PHILADELPHIA (May 6, 2021) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed its evaluation of a draft plan to compensate for more than 6 million pounds of Chesapeake Bay pollutants no longer being trapped in a reservoir behind the Conowingo Dam.

For the first time, researchers have identified a gene that controls flowering in cacao, a discovery that may help accelerate breeding efforts aimed at improving the disease-ridden plant, they suggested.

A reduction in the amount of fresh, light-colored snow in parts of Greenland is exposing older, darker snow. The research reports on new weather patterns and explains how the changing shape of snowflakes on the surface is leading to conditions on Greenland's ice sheet, including possibly increased melting.

Researchers have developed a new numerical method that paves the way for simulating landslide tsunamis.

Researchers have found several grape varieties native to Cyprus, which tolerate drought conditions better than some international varieties popular in Australia, contain chemical compounds responsible for flavors preferred by consumers.

Scientists have used species survey and climate data to identify two marine biodiversity refugia in the Eastern Bering Sea - regions where species richness, community stability and climate stability are high.

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EPA alleged that Farfard Real Estate and Development Corporation did not follow its Clean Water Act permit in Ledgemere Country Residential Development, Maplebrooke Commons Condominiums and Lakeview Estates.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes related to utility coal as sites such as eliminating the tonnage limit, merging onsite and offsite coal ash definitions and increasing transparency for utility groundwater filings.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources asked wastewater treatment systems to test for contaminants known as "forever" chemicals.

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will hear oral arguments on petitions for an adjudicatory hearing on Interim Storage Partners' license application for an interim facility to store spent nuclear fuel in Andrews County, Texas.