Surfrider Foundation highlights progress and ongoing challenges in coastal monitoring efforts. #NewsismyBusiness
The local assignment is part of a global $148 million in grants to 11 states and Puerto Rico. #NewsismyBusiness
Puerto Rico has air quality testing stations in Cataño, Caguas, Camuy, Mayagüez, San Germán and Manatí. #NewsismyBusiness
It is not clear how Puerto Rico would benefit from this agreement, if at all, yet. #NewsismyBusiness
The institution will help communities access federal funds to address such issues as pollution, infrastructure challenges and energy costs. #NewsismyBusiness
U.S. District Judge Carmen Consuelo-Cerezo sentenced Mora Development to pay a fine of $3 million, serve a five-year probation term and restitute a family whose children were affected by the criminal conduct.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday it has granted more than $1.6 million to the University of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corporation to settle the company’s alleged violations of requirements to control pollution from stormwater discharges at its Guaynabo Bulk Fuels Terminal.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement with F&R Contractors Corp. and F&R Contractors LLC (F&R) to settle the companies’ alleged violations of requirements to control pollution from stormwater discharges.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $120,000 to Puerto Rico’s Desarrollo Integral del Sur Inc. to help it identify sources of air pollution in the Tallaboa-Encarnación community. The community is located in an industrial area of where there are a number of petrochemical businesses. The project is called "Pulmones Saludables, Ahora!" (“Healthy Lungs, Now!”)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a series of recommendations to marinas in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands that will reduce pollution, compiled in a manual the agency has written with assistance from the Puerto Rico Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, Puerto Rico SeaGrant, the Sea Grant Program of the University of the Virgin Islands and Blue Flag.
The annual U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report on the amount of toxic chemicals released to the land, air and water by industrial facilities in 2011 showed an 11 percent decrease for Puerto Rico over the past reporting year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded nearly $200,000 in pollution prevention grants to the University of Turabo and the University of Puerto Rico’s Aguadilla campus to fund projects that will help prevent pollution in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s high asthma rates, and recycling and pollution prevention efforts were some of the issues on the agenda of a meeting that took place late last week between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and local government representatives in New York, the agency said Monday.
Toxic emissions in Puerto Rico were 15 percent lower in 2010 versus the prior year, but higher in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 25th edition of its Toxics Release Inventory report.
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