The EPA is proposing to relieve New York City of its obligation to complete the final design of a drinking water filtration system for the Catskill/Delaware watershed in upstate New York.
City officials in Hastings, Neb., are seeking a separate hearing before state officials regarding enforcement of copper standards in community drinking water.
President Bush has proposed reducing the EPA's enforcement staff in Washington and regional offices by 8 percent, while providing $25 million in new grants to the states for enforcement activities.
A University of Tulsa chemistry professor may elevate the status of a popular collegiate beverage, saying that beer may be a low-tech, low-cost solution to clean the orange-colored, iron-contaminated waters of one of the country's most urgent Superfund sites.
The EPA has ordered the General Electric Co., based in Fairfield, Conn., to clean up soil and ground water contamination at the Fletcher's Paint Works Superfund site in Milford, N.H.
In an effort to reduce environmental damage from acid mine drainage, EPA is taking comment on new data concerning remining practices that retrieve coal from abandoned mines.
Former El Paso mayor Carlos Ramirez recently took his oath of office as of commissioner of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission.
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