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• EPA Announces Removal of Lower Menominee River from List of Great Lakes Areas of Concern

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Removal of Lower Menominee River from List of Great Lakes Areas of Concern

  • Release Date: September 3, 2020

• EPA Highlights Recovery of Great Lakes Piping Plover

  Endangered shorebird recovering thanks to GLRI support and partnerships

  EPA News Release: EPA Highlights Recovery of Great Lakes Piping Plover

  • Release Date: August 13, 2020

• EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  EPA News Release: EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  Drinking Water Providers Partnership grants benefit clean water, people, salmon and trout

  EPA News Release: Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  • Release Date: July 6, 2020

• Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  Actions finalized in March and April 2020

  EPA News Release: Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  • Release Date: June 23, 2020

• EPA selects nine projects in Oregon and Washington for $4.75 million in Brownfields funding

  Five Oregon grants ($2.65 million) are part of nationwide $65.6 million Brownfields funding rollout

  EPA News Release: EPA selects nine projects in Oregon and Washington for $4.75 million in Brownfields funding

  • Release Date: May 6, 2020

• EPA’s Northwest regional Food Recovery Challenge winners both Oregon-based this year

  Newport Avenue Market in Bend and University of Oregon Dining Facilities – Eugene, earn local honors for outsized efforts in preventing food waste

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Northwest regional Food Recovery Challenge winners both Oregon-based this year

  • Release Date: April 30, 2020

• EPA at 50: Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

  EPA News Release: EPA at 50: Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

  • Release Date: April 20, 2020

• EPA announces $2.9 million Great Lakes project to clean up contaminated sediment in Detroit River, enabling expansion of city’s Riverwalk

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $2.9 million Great Lakes project to clean up contaminated sediment in Detroit River, enabling expansion of city’s Riverwalk

  • Release Date: April 14, 2020

• EPA awards over $9 million in GLRI funding for projects to reduce excess nutrients in the Great Lakes

  EPA News Release: EPA awards over $9 million in GLRI funding for projects to reduce excess nutrients in the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: April 14, 2020

• EPA awards $6.4 million to Great Lakes Fishery Commission for projects to restore and manage fish species

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $6.4 million to Great Lakes Fishery Commission for projects to restore and manage fish species

  • Release Date: April 13, 2020

• U.S. settles with Oregon landowner over federal Clean Water Act violations near the banks of the North Santiam River

  EPA News Release: U.S. settles with Oregon landowner over federal Clean Water Act violations near the banks of the North Santiam River

  • Release Date: April 13, 2020

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative receives $20 million in additional funding

  EPA proposes allocations of FY 2020 funding increase

  EPA News Release: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative receives $20 million in additional funding

  • Release Date: April 9, 2020

• Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  Actions finalized in November and December 2019

  EPA News Release: Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  • Release Date: April 9, 2020