Archive for the ‘Enviroment’ Category

The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a new online resource intended to promote knowledge sharing and collaboration among the scientific community on environmental modeling. The Integrated Environmental Modeling Hub (iemHUB) website is designed to “facilitate knowledge sharing, discussion and collaboration on models and tools that support multimedia and multidisciplinary analysis.” The agency uses integrated environmental modeling to simulate environmental processes and interactions between ecological and human-influenced systems and to inform its decision making process.

Defendants charged with environmental crimes or violations of the U.S. Federal Criminal Code sometimes flee the court’s jurisdiction and/or the USA rather than face prosecution or to serve a sentence. When these circumstances occur, the defendants become fugitives from justice.

The following wanted posters identify fugitives sought by the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division. Each one provides a brief case summary and instructions on how to report information related to their identity and/or current location. You may also report the information to your local police or if you are outside the United States, to the nearest U.S. Embassy.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a proposed rule that would further strengthen the air quality standards for ground-level ozone. The proposal would tighten the health-based primary standard issued in 2008 by the Bush administration and set a separate secondary standard to protect environmental resources. The rule would set the primary standard in a range between 0.060 part per million and 0.070 ppm. The secondary seasonal standard would be set in a range between 7 ppm-hours and 15 ppm-hours to protect the environment. The Bush administration had set both primary and secondary standards at 0.075 ppm