Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

Here's one that should keep your water bill low.

The city of Akron announced that it has reached an agreement with the Ohio EPA and the U.S. EPA on a proposed Fourth Amendment to the city's federal sewer consent decree.

The amendment, if approved by the district, would eliminate the requirement to construct the enhanced high-rate treatment, better known as EHRT.

It's a facility, and that project is estimated to cost over $300 million and to provide basically little to no additional environmental benefit.

ONN's Brianna Albizu reports.

10TV has confirmed that Honda filed documents with the Ohio EPA to explore a new facility.

It would hire around 3,000 people.

However, Honda says they pulled the permit because of a, quote, procedural issue.

He could face more than five decades in prison if convicted.

In northeast Ohio's Springfield Township, the Ohio EPA was on-site yesterday checking private wells because residents raised concerns about potential drinking water contamination after construction got underway at a landfill nearby.

ONN's Erin Sullivan has details.

Neighbors showed us the former dumping site where we could see debris and also experience that strong odor coming from the area.

These residents believe that disturbing the site of a former dumping site may have affected the soil and potentially their water supply.

They fear when it rains, their water could be contaminating their private wells.

So the EPA and the Summit County Health Department did visit the area.

They took multiple samples of well water.

E-checks could soon be a thing of the past.

Governor DeWine today asked the Ohio EPA to start phasing them out.

First at four, Catherine Huntley learns why.

Some people can't afford to do things fixed on their car, and it's just a big hassle.

Today, Governor DeWine says the testing may no longer be necessary.

That's because Northeast Ohio's air is now clean enough to meet all federal air quality standards.

A lot of collaborative effort between communities in Northeast Ohio, Ohio EPA, business, industry, our environmental partners to get us to this point.

The program goes back decades.

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Governor Mike DeWine has directed the Ohio EPA to begin the process of ending vehicle emissions testing in the region.

The state plans to submit its request to the U.S. EPA by the end of the year following public comments in October and a public meeting in November.

The change comes after the federal government redesignated Northeast Ohio as meeting federal ozone standards.

The current owner, purchased the site in 2019.

The Ohio EPA and City of Cleveland inspected the site in September 2025, responding to complaints from residents after discovering numerous abandoned containers with hazardous substance laborers in the building.

The Ohio EPA referred the site to the EPA.

and the epa collected samples from container services and debris inside the building which confirmed flammable toxic and corrosive waste as well as friable experiment asbestos and pcbs polychlorinated biphenyls i think it's just mind-blowing here that here we have the warehouse picture there imagine i don't know why would you buy something like this looks like a fairly modern label here First of all, my question, and we have limited information here, but was this place bought and did the buyer know what the latest owner that this stuff was in there or did the current owner put it there? Or was it an investment group that was just buying properties, which happens also, especially in this neighborhood in New Jersey here where they just buy things sight unseen.

I think we've all gotten phone calls over the years of, oh, hi.

They were the contractor that was hired by Norfolk Southern.

Cover-up by EPA and Ohio EPA as well.

You know, she wrote a sworn affidavit.

She says the company that hired her, CTEH, who was working for Norfolk, helped hide how bad the contamination really was.

That's at the intersection of Cherry and Central Avenue.

The Ohio EPA was called in to investigate as well.

We're told firefighters are monitoring the situation, but readings in the area for now are at safe levels, meaning there's no danger to the public.

Near Columbus, Whitehall City Council member Gerald Dixon is sharing his thoughts after prosecutors declined to pursue charges against him.

The ones that I am dealing with exclusively are those.

Hey, Rob, do you have capacity at the treatment plant for this new project? It's really Ohio EPA that issues a permit to install.

They're just getting our they're asking us if we have capacity for it.

That's it.

Right.

You have to

turn it in with your application to Ohio EPA.

Oh, I see.