The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the town of Toa Alta was selected to receive $300,000 to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency’s Brownfields Program. The Municipality of Toa Alta will use the grant to target the 35-acre former Industrial Zone, including four vacant and hurricane-damaged former industrial sites and a […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is responding to the recent series of damaging earthquakes in Puerto Rico, working under a Federal Emergency Management Agency mission assignment focused on lending aid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local government agencies as they assess water infrastructure. The EPA is also using its own authorities to […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp. will provide the Puerto Rico Department of Public Security and the Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Department of the U.S. Virgin Islands Ports Authority with $110,000 worth of emergency equipment. The allocation is part of a settlement of alleged violations of provisions of […]