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• EPA Announces Community Meeting Feb. 23 to Discuss Groundwater Contamination in St. Charles, Missouri

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Community Meeting Feb. 23 to Discuss Groundwater Contamination in St. Charles, Missouri

  • Release Date: January 31, 2023

• EPA Fines Turbocharged Performance LLC in Sibley, Iowa, for Alleged Automobile ‘Defeat Device’ Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Fines Turbocharged Performance LLC in Sibley, Iowa, for Alleged Automobile ‘Defeat Device’ Violations

  • Release Date: January 24, 2023

• EPA Fines Newton, Kansas, Landowner for Illegal Dumping in Streams

  EPA News Release: EPA Fines Newton, Kansas, Landowner for Illegal Dumping in Streams

  • Release Date: January 19, 2023

• EPA Finds Kansas and Missouri Home Renovators in Default for Alleged Lead-Based Paint Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Finds Kansas and Missouri Home Renovators in Default for Alleged Lead-Based Paint Violations

  • Release Date: January 10, 2023

• EPA Region 7 Presents $500K Check to City of Springfield, Missouri, for Brownfields Job Training Grant

  Selected grant will train environmental workers and expand the city’s Green for Greene job training program

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Presents $500K Check to City of Springfield, Missouri, for Brownfields Job Training Grant

  • Release Date: January 10, 2023

• EPA and TC Oil Pipeline Operations Inc. Enter Into Agreement to Clean Up Oil Discharge From Pipeline Rupture Near Washington, Kansas

  The pipeline rupture on Dec. 7 and oil discharge led to violations of the Clean Water Act

  EPA News Release: EPA and TC Oil Pipeline Operations Inc. Enter Into Agreement to Clean Up Oil Discharge From Pipeline Rupture Near Washington, Kansas

  • Release Date: January 9, 2023

• EPA Settles Clean Air Act Case with Polyurethane Facility in Earth City, Missouri

  EPA News Release: EPA Settles Clean Air Act Case with Polyurethane Facility in Earth City, Missouri

  • Release Date: January 4, 2023

• EPA Region 7 Encourages Radon Testing During National Radon Action Month

  Free radon testing kits will be offered during events throughout January at Missouri’s Kansas City Public Library branches

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Encourages Radon Testing During National Radon Action Month

  • Release Date: January 4, 2023

• RESCHEDULED: EPA Partners with K-State to Host Community Input Session March 29 for Former Superfund Site in Holden, Missouri

  EPA News Release: RESCHEDULED: EPA Partners with K-State to Host Community Input Session March 29 for Former Superfund Site in Holden, Missouri

  • Release Date: March 24, 2022

• EPA Updates Officials on West Lake Landfill Investigation

  Search for radiologically impacted material continues

  EPA News Release: EPA Updates Officials on West Lake Landfill Investigation

  • Release Date: March 23, 2022

• Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Selected for $489,155 Grant to Upgrade Municipal Fleet to Reduce Emissions from Diesel Vehicles

  EPA is awarding $5.4 million nationwide in grant funding for tribal and insular areas to establish lower-emission diesel projects

  EPA News Release: Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Selected for $489,155 Grant to Upgrade Municipal Fleet to Reduce Emissions from Diesel Vehicles

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• Le Mars, Iowa, Site Proposed for Addition to Superfund National Priorities List

  EPA updates Superfund NPL, taking action to address risks to public health and build a better America

  EPA News Release: Le Mars, Iowa, Site Proposed for Addition to Superfund National Priorities List

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• Manufacturing Plants in Iowa and Nebraska Among Most Energy Efficient of 2021

  ENERGY STAR certified 93 energy-efficient plants this year

  EPA News Release: Manufacturing Plants in Iowa and Nebraska Among Most Energy Efficient of 2021

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• KCK and KCMO Mayors Join EPA to Fight Radon Exposure

  21,000 people die from cancer caused by radon exposure each year in U.S.

  EPA News Release: KCK and KCMO Mayors Join EPA to Fight Radon Exposure

  • Release Date: March 16, 2022

• EPA Region 7 Selects Three Kansas City Area Winners of 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Video Challenge

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Selects Three Kansas City Area Winners of 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Video Challenge

  • Release Date: March 15, 2022