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• EPA issues first ever underground injection permits for carbon sequestration in California

  Carbon sequestration will be used at Kern County site to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate climate change

  EPA News Release: EPA issues first ever underground injection permits for carbon sequestration in California

  • Release Date: December 31, 2024

• EPA Grants Waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations

  Agency additionally grants waiver for low-NOx regulations for heavy-duty and off-road vehicles and engines

  EPA News Release: EPA Grants Waiver for California’s Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations

  • Release Date: December 18, 2024

• EPA Delivers Over $135 Million to California for Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles as Part of Nationwide Inflation Reduction Act Investment

  Historic funding will help California reduce air pollution and combat climate change, while advancing career access, equity, and justice

  EPA News Release: EPA Delivers Over $135 Million to California for Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles as Part of Nationwide Inflation Reduction Act Investment

  • Release Date: December 11, 2024

• EPA Requires California’s Central Valley Meat Company to Improve Chemical Safety

  EPA News Release: EPA Requires California’s Central Valley Meat Company to Improve Chemical Safety

  • Release Date: December 10, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.5 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants to Train California Environmental Workers, Revitalize Communities

  EPA selects three California organizations to receive grants funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, boosting workforce training in overburdened communities

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.5 Million in EPA Brownfields Grants to Train California Environmental Workers, Revitalize Communities

  • Release Date: December 14, 2022

• EPA Settlement Results in Closure of Four Big Island Cesspools

  American Savings Bank will close illegal former Kealakekua Branch cesspool, undertake supplemental environmental project to close three additional cesspools

  EPA News Release: EPA Settlement Results in Closure of Four Big Island Cesspools

  • Release Date: December 1, 2022

• California Trucking Company to Pay $71K Penalty for Three Spills into Lake County Waterways

  EPA News Release: California Trucking Company to Pay $71K Penalty for Three Spills into Lake County Waterways

  • Release Date: November 21, 2022

• Environmental Study Released for Projects to Mitigate San Diego – Tijuana Transborder Water Pollution

  EPA News Release: Environmental Study Released for Projects to Mitigate San Diego – Tijuana Transborder Water Pollution

  • Release Date: November 18, 2022

• Six California Entities Receive EPA Safer Choice Awards for Chemical Safety

  EPA News Release: Six California Entities Receive EPA Safer Choice Awards for Chemical Safety

  • Release Date: November 17, 2022

• Bay Area Company Receives $400,000 from EPA for Zero Waste Artificial Intelligence Project

  EPA News Release: Bay Area Company Receives $400,000 from EPA for Zero Waste Artificial Intelligence Project

  • Release Date: November 16, 2022

• EPA Penalizes Ampac Fine Chemicals, Resolving Claims of Hazardous Waste Law Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Penalizes Ampac Fine Chemicals, Resolving Claims of Hazardous Waste Law Violations

  • Release Date: November 10, 2022

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $11 Million for Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Arizona, California and Nevada

  Largest investment for community air monitoring in EPA history funded by President Biden’s Climate and Economic Plans

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $11 Million for Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Arizona, California and Nevada

  • Release Date: November 3, 2022

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $8.8 Million for 22 Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in California

  Largest investment for community air monitoring in EPA history funded by President Biden’s Climate and Economic Plans

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $8.8 Million for 22 Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in California

  • Release Date: November 3, 2022

• EPA Awards California $609 Million in Historic Federal Funding to Improve Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards California $609 Million in Historic Federal Funding to Improve Water Quality

  • Release Date: November 2, 2022

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Close to $95 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program for School Districts in American Samoa, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada

  Historic investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law headed to all 50 states in effort to transform America’s school bus fleet

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Close to $95 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program for School Districts in American Samoa, Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada

  • Release Date: October 26, 2022