U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is joining a comment letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to deny California’s waiver request for its “Advanced Clean Fleets” regulation. The new rule attempts to impose an electric truck mandate on fleet owners, operators and manufacturers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today officially denied Alabama’s application to run a federally approved state permit program for coal ash ponds and landfills. The threat to public health posed by these chemicals was at the center of Alabama Public Radio’s investigation “Bad Chemistry.” That journalism project was honored today with three regional Edward R. Murrow awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall signed on with dozens of other States that are suing the Biden Administration and California over new limits on truck emissions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized over one hundred U.S. manufacturing plants for energy efficiency. Four Alabama companies were included, two in Tuscaloosa. The honorees earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2023. This designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the expansion of its successful Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap Community Initiative to 150 additional communities as part of President Biden’s Investing America agenda. This includes Greene County and Lowndes County in Alabama.

A U.S. construction company that built solar farms across the country will pay $2.3 million in penalties to settle claims that it violated federal and state water protections in Alabama, Idaho and Illinois, the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said.

It’s been two decades since the chemical company Monsanto settled a lawsuit with Anniston residents. People there said Monsanto exposed them to chemicals called PCBs which caused birth defects and cancer. But Monsanto is far from the only alleged instance of harmful chemicals in Alabama. Here’s a tale of two communities. One that’s trying to head off problems linked to chemical pollution, and another that says it’s been dealing with the issue for years…

Environmental groups have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to intervene in a south Alabama water system they say has been plagued by leaks, contamination and financial mismanagement. The groups say the water system in Prichard is threatening the health of residents in the low-income community.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has opened a civil rights investigation into a complaint that Alabama discriminated against Black residents when handing out funding for wastewater infrastructure.

A trustee group is proposing nearly $100 million to revitalize the Gulf Coast. The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded 11 years ago last week. It…