Tag: EPA
California School District Jumps Into Solar, Storage, & Electric Buses
The quite rural Porterville Unified School District (PUSD) in California, which sits between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Los Angeles and Sacramento, has decided to go all-in on cleantech. It is getting solar, battery energy storage, and also electric school buses. The school district is working with ForeFront Power … [continued]
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EPA Moves to Eliminate Public From Permitting Process for Data Centers, Concrete Batch Plants
On Tuesday the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed cutting the public out of air pollution permits for “minor sources,” which include the large diesel generators that many data centers in Texas use. EPA’s proposal removes any requirement for transparency or public participation for these pollution sources, including most data centers but … [continued]
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Sierra Club Urges EPA to Reject Industry Push to Weaken Life-Saving Truck Pollution Standards
Today, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal that would weaken clean truck pollution standards that protect Americans from dangerous air pollution. This weakening of EPA’s heavy-duty truck pollution standards could lead to more asthma attacks, heart disease, premature deaths, and missed work and school days, particularly in communities near highways, freight … [continued]
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Former EPA staffer from Wisconsin sues after he was fired for signing letter of dissent
Internal EPA records show agency staff found no ethics concerns and advised against firings.
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Two Duluth biologists fired by EPA file lawsuit against the agency
Two former biologists from the EPA’s Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division in Duluth, Minnesota, have joined five other fired EPA employees in federal lawsuits alleging they were unlawfully terminated […]