EPA awards grant to West Virginia communities for brownfield site revitalization
Six organizations and communities in West Virginia will receive a combined total of $1.6 million of funding from the EPA for brownfield site revitalization. The Town of Bath (Morgan County), the Brooke-Hancock Regional Planning and Development Council, the City of Thomas (Tucker County), the Upshur County Youth Camp, the City of Vienna (Wood County), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection will each receive between $100,000 and $600,000. These grants were
EPA Awards grant to Earth Conservancy for brownfield site revitalization
Earth Conservancy, a Pennsylvania non-profit organization, will receive $600,000 from the EPA to clean up parcels of land in Hanover Township and a segment of the Espy Run stream in Nanticoke in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Historic anthracite mining activity and coal waste disposal scarred the area and left significant acid mine drainage issues. Earth Conservancy is one of 172 communities and organizations selected by the EPA to receive funding for brownfield site revitaliz
D.C. District Court overturns Dakota Access Pipeline analysis
The United States District Court, District of Columbia, found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) violated NEPA by failing to adequately consider the project’s environmental effects, including environmental justice impacts, before granting permits to Dakota Access to construct and operate Dakota Access Pipeline under Lake Oahe. The Court remanded the decision back to the Corps, requiring the agency to reconsider its environmental analysis. The Court additionally ord