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Celebrating Nine Female Environmental Leaders – Share Your Favorites

As part of our ongoing celebration of green women during women’s history month, we are spotlighting ten women environmentalists in the United States who work tirelessly to protect the environment. Help us make this list more comprehensive by adding additional women who you feel have made an enormous difference with their conservation work in the comments section. Also do not forget to check out our list of women working in sustainability and women working in the solar and wind industries.

EPA Issues New Rule Targeting Construction Site Water Pollution

By Jessalyn Dingwell on January 13, 2010 2 Comments best management practices, builders, building industry, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Climate Change, construction, construction industry, construction site run off, contaminants, environment, environmental, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, global warming, green building, green economy, greenhouse gas emissions, National Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Obama, Policy, pollution, pollution sources, rainfall, regulation, renewable energy, sediment, storm water management, sustainability, sustainable building, The Clean Water Act, The Clean Water Act of 1972, Turbidity, Washington, Water, water management, water pollution, water quality, waterways

EPA Issues New Rule Targeting Construction Site Water Pollution

Beginning February 1, 2010, an estimated 82,000 construction sites must comply with the EPA’s new regulation governing construction site discharge. The new regulation outlines stricter measures to reduce water pollution and the EPA expects compliance with the rule to reduce the amount of sediment and other pollutants discharged from construction sites by 4 billion pounds per year.