About EPA
EPA Region 3 (Mid-Atlantic)
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Serving Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
Key Issues
- Brownfields and Land Revitalization
- Chesapeake Bay Program
- Chesapeake Bay TMDL, a "pollution diet" for the Bay and its tributaries
- Corrective Action Program
- Healthy Waters - innovative tools to protect waters
- Mid-Atlantic Sustainability Partnership
- Mountaintop Mining
- Natural Gas Extraction/Marcellus Shale
- Recovery Act projects in the Mid-Atlantic
- Student Environmental Development Program - summer programs for middle-schoolers to learn about the environment, advocacy and life skills
- Superfund Site-Specific Administrative Records
- Mid-Atlantic Clean Diesel Program
- Mid-Atlantic Title V Air Operating Permit Public Petition Deadlines
- Washington, D.C. Drinking Water and lead in D.C. drinking water
Region 3 News & Events
News
Events
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September 21, 2012
10th Annual Children's Health and the Environment Conference
Baltimore, Md. -
Sept. 28–30, 2012
7th Annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Shepherdstown, Wv. -
December 6, 2012
18th Annual Maryland Water Monitoring Council Conference
Maritime Institute
North Linthicum, Md.
Activities
- EPA proposes Clean Air Act petition to improve air quality in New Jersey via Penna. emission reductions
- EPA drafts strategic Environmental Justice plan
- EPA establishes landmark Chesapeake Bay pollution diet
- EPA halts mining waste disposal to Appalachian waters at Spruce Mine No. 1