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• EPA Recognizes Electronics Industry Leaders in New Jersey and New York for Diverting 176,494 Tons of Electronic Products from Landfills

  Part of a nationwide challenge to reduce environmental impacts across the country and help address climate change

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes Electronics Industry Leaders in New Jersey and New York for Diverting 176,494 Tons of Electronic Products from Landfills

  • Release Date: March 31, 2021

• EPA Issues Administrative Order Requiring City to Construct Sewage Retention Tanks for Gowanus Canal Superfund Site Cleanup

  EPA News Release: EPA Issues Administrative Order Requiring City to Construct Sewage Retention Tanks for Gowanus Canal Superfund Site Cleanup

  • Release Date: March 30, 2021

• Cleanup work to resume next month at Grasse River Superfund Site in Massena, New York

  EPA News Release: Cleanup work to resume next month at Grasse River Superfund Site in Massena, New York

  • Release Date: March 30, 2021

• EPA Withdraws Plantwide Applicability Limit Permit for Limetree Bay Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Will Review Clean Air Act Requirements for the Facility

  EPA News Release: EPA Withdraws Plantwide Applicability Limit Permit for Limetree Bay Refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Will Review Clean Air Act Requirements for the Facility

  • Release Date: March 25, 2021

• EPA Selects Three New York City Organizations for Brownfields Job Training Grants to Build a Skilled Environmental Workforce in Economically Distressed Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Three New York City Organizations for Brownfields Job Training Grants to Build a Skilled Environmental Workforce in Economically Distressed Communities

  • Release Date: March 12, 2021

• EPA Selects PUSH Buffalo to Receive $200,000 Brownfields Job Training Grant to Build a Skilled Environmental Workforce in Economically Distressed Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects PUSH Buffalo to Receive $200,000 Brownfields Job Training Grant to Build a Skilled Environmental Workforce in Economically Distressed Communities

  • Release Date: March 12, 2021

• EPA Recognizes WaterSense Conservation Leader in New York

  SUEZ New York Awarded for Promoting WaterSense Labeled Products

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes WaterSense Conservation Leader in New York

  • Release Date: October 26, 2020

• EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from Coronavirus Protection Scams

  EPA issued 29 Advisory Letters to companies selling misbranded and unregistered pesticide products and prevented 52 imports of illegal pesticide products in New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from Coronavirus Protection Scams

  • Release Date: October 15, 2020

• EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  Under the Trump Administration, EPA has deleted 82 sites from the NPL in four years equaling the number of deletions between 2008-2016

  EPA News Release: EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  • Release Date: October 8, 2020

• EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  EPA News Release: EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  • Release Date: October 6, 2020

• EPA Region 2 to Provide $4.7 Million in Grant Funding to Reduce Air Pollution in New York and New Jersey

  EPA to Award up to $73 million for Clean Diesel Projects

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 2 to Provide $4.7 Million in Grant Funding to Reduce Air Pollution in New York and New Jersey

  • Release Date: October 1, 2020