Primary standards are numerical limits of allowable air and water pollutants designed to protect human health but not necessarily other parts of the environment. Primary standards differ from secondary standards, which are those that protect against...

According to the official definition of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), bioassessment refers to the process of evaluating the biological condition of a body of water using biological surveys (biosurveys) and other direct...

In December 1970, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established as an independent agency. Reorganization Plan 3 of 1970 consolidated fifteen components from five agencies for the purpose of grouping all environmental regulatory...

If the 1960s and 1970s have become known as decades of growing concern about environmental causes, the 1980s will probably be remembered as a decade of stagnation and retreat on many environmental issues. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush held...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and with safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land. The EPA began operation on...

When the EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership was first launched, its commercial members were primarily carriers and shippers. Now many companies in many categories are in the program. Partnerships are at the foundation. The critical aspect is that a company subscribe to the partnership's...

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the decision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to issue national guidelines and standards for harmful storm water pollution discharges from construction sites. "Dirty runoff...

Worth noting on that transition are people like: --Albany DA David Soares, who is investigating state comptroller Alan Hevesi over the chauffeur scandal; --Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, who is prosecuting former Assemblyman and Kings County Democratic Leader Clarence Norman; --Ed Cox, one-time Republican senatorial challenger...

"The decision comes after months of conversation and negotiations between NYU and members of the local community, including Councilman Alan Gerson [and] Community Board 2," NYU administrators said in a release. While the decision is sure to please most of the larger Village community--no construction...