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• EPA settles stormwater case with KAG West of Tacoma

  Company paid $133,225 for failures leading to pollution in Commencement Bay

  EPA News Release: EPA settles stormwater case with KAG West of Tacoma

  • Release Date: February 11, 2021

• EPA penalizes Shell for Anacortes refinery release

  Company pays $191,000 penalty for 2015 event that sickened locals

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Shell for Anacortes refinery release

  • Release Date: February 10, 2021

• EPA orders Amazon to halt illegal pesticides sales

  EPA News Release: EPA orders Amazon to halt illegal pesticides sales

  • Release Date: February 9, 2021

• EPA offers $120,000 in grant funds to support healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA offers $120,000 in grant funds to support healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

  • Release Date: February 9, 2021

• EPA settles with Emerald Kalama Chemical, LLC over hazardous waste handling, storage violations

  Facility agrees to modify practice and pay penalty to settle alleged violations

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Emerald Kalama Chemical, LLC over hazardous waste handling, storage violations

  • Release Date: February 8, 2021

• EPA Announces $96 Million WIFIA Loan to King County, Washington to Improve Water Quality in Puget Sound

  Nationally, 43 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $17.1 billion in water infrastructure projects. Since 2017, EPA has invested $424.7 million in WIFIA funding for King County and Seattle Public Utilities water quality projects.

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $96 Million WIFIA Loan to King County, Washington to Improve Water Quality in Puget Sound

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  Nationally, 43 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $17.1 billion in water infrastructure projects. EPA WIFIA investment in Oregon water quality projects since 2018: $1.25 billion

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  Action prompts resumption of recycling “mountains” of expended small arms brass cartridges

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA reports overall 12 percent decline in industrial toxic releases for the Pacific Northwest, Idaho and Alaska

  EPA News Release: EPA reports overall 12 percent decline in industrial toxic releases for the Pacific Northwest, Idaho and Alaska

  • Release Date: January 12, 2021

• EPA settles federal stormwater violations with North Idaho builder and developer in Coeur d’Alene

  EPA News Release: EPA settles federal stormwater violations with North Idaho builder and developer in Coeur d’Alene

  • Release Date: January 7, 2021

• Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  EPA: study delivers important data supporting federal, state and tribal salmon saving efforts

  EPA News Release: Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  • Release Date: January 7, 2021

• EPA enforcement cases in PNW & Alaska finalized in September & October 2020

  EPA News Release: EPA enforcement cases in PNW & Alaska finalized in September & October 2020

  • Release Date: December 30, 2020

• EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska finalized in July and August 2020

  EPA News Release: EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska finalized in July and August 2020

  • Release Date: December 30, 2020

• EPA Region 10 Issues Outdoor Burn Ban for the Yakama Reservation in Washington

  All outdoor open burning on the Yakama Reservation is prohibited due to stagnant and unhealthy air conditions

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 10 Issues Outdoor Burn Ban for the Yakama Reservation in Washington

  • Release Date: December 23, 2020

• Crowley Fuels pays over $1 million for environmental, public safety violations in Alaska

  EPA News Release: Crowley Fuels pays over $1 million for environmental, public safety violations in Alaska

  • Release Date: December 17, 2020