"Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers."
-- Barack Obama
Cleanups in Providence, RI There are many things you can do to assist the cleanup effort which benefits greatly when communities and individuals get involved.
Listed below is a cleanup in Providence, RI.
Brownfields
EPA's Brownfields Program works in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Through its 10 Regional offices across the country, EPA makes brownfields information, assistance, and grant funding available regardless of location.
Federal Facilities
Federal Facility Site Information
Regional Emergency Management
Emergency management activities are coordinated between local organizations (including local fire departments), the ten EPA regional offices, and EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo)
Hazardous waste information is contained in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information (RCRAInfo), a national program management and inventory system about hazardous waste handlers.
National Response Center
Spills of oil, gas, pipeline liquids and hazardous substances. The National Response System (NRS) is the government's mechanism for emergency response to discharges of oil and the release of chemicals into the navigable waters or environment of the United States and its territories.
Let's Clear the Air In November of 2006 the citizens of Arizona made their voices heard by passing the Smoke-Free Arizona Act A.R.S. §36-601.01. This landmark statute prohibits smoking in most enclosed public places and places of employment including (but not limited to):
Restaurants, bars, grocery stores, or ....
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners approve orders on proposed transmission lines vital to wind-power, ratepayers to see benefits quickly
Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) customers will soon begin seeing renewable energy credits on their bills, the result of a wind-power related order approved
today by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC).
Calling it a critical step forward toward making Oklahoma ....