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• City of Driggs, Idaho pays $400K penalty for Clean Water Act violations, agrees to wastewater facility upgrade

  EPA News Release: City of Driggs, Idaho pays $400K penalty for Clean Water Act violations, agrees to wastewater facility upgrade

  • Release Date: January 16, 2025

• EPA announces $2.4M in funding for small businesses to develop environmental technologies

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $2.4M in funding for small businesses to develop environmental technologies

  • Release Date: January 13, 2025

• Federal judge orders Lower Yakima Valley dairies to test wells and provide alternative drinking water to area residents at risk from nitrate-contaminated wells

  EPA News Release: Federal judge orders Lower Yakima Valley dairies to test wells and provide alternative drinking water to area residents at risk from nitrate-contaminated wells

  • Release Date: December 18, 2024

• EPA announces $89M loan to enhance wastewater management in King County

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $89M loan to enhance wastewater management in King County

  • Release Date: December 18, 2024

• EPA announces $319M WIFIA loan for improvements to a critical drinking water system in Oregon

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $319M WIFIA loan for improvements to a critical drinking water system in Oregon

  • Release Date: December 16, 2024

• Renewed EPA wastewater permits require Haines, Sitka, Skagway, and Wrangell to significantly reduce bacteria from sewage discharges

  EPA News Release: Renewed EPA wastewater permits require Haines, Sitka, Skagway, and Wrangell to significantly reduce bacteria from sewage discharges

  • Release Date: December 5, 2024

• PSF, formerly Peter Pan Seafoods, pays $750K penalty for Clean Water Act violations in Valdez and King Cove, Alaska

  EPA News Release: PSF, formerly Peter Pan Seafoods, pays $750K penalty for Clean Water Act violations in Valdez and King Cove, Alaska

  • Release Date: December 5, 2024

• Priest River couple pays $75,000 Clean Water Act penalty for streambank destruction on Priest River

  EPA News Release: Priest River couple pays $75,000 Clean Water Act penalty for streambank destruction on Priest River

  • Release Date: October 30, 2024

• EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  EPA News Release: EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  • Release Date: October 29, 2024

• EPA Announces $24 Million WIFIA Loan to Modernize and Expand Wastewater Facilities in Northern Oregon

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $24 Million WIFIA Loan to Modernize and Expand Wastewater Facilities in Northern Oregon

  • Release Date: October 10, 2024

• EPA proposes temperature cleanup plan for Umpqua Basin

  Public can comment on plan until November 25

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes temperature cleanup plan for Umpqua Basin

  • Release Date: October 9, 2024

• EPA proposes PCBs cleanup plan for Spokane River

  Public can comment on plan until July 15

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes PCBs cleanup plan for Spokane River

  • Release Date: May 15, 2024

• EPA develops 6PPD-q water testing method for widespread use

  “Lightspeed” test development highlights significance of finding salmon-killing tire additive

  EPA News Release: EPA develops 6PPD-q water testing method for widespread use

  • Release Date: January 30, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Largest Ever Clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to Address Milwaukee Area of Concern

  Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, new funding agreement between EPA and partners will invest an estimated $450 million to cleanup of nearly two million cubic yards of contaminated sediments

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Largest Ever Clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to Address Milwaukee Area of Concern

  • Release Date: October 12, 2023

• EPA proposes new requirements for Skagway and Wrangell wastewater plants to disinfect sewage discharges

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes new requirements for Skagway and Wrangell wastewater plants to disinfect sewage discharges

  • Release Date: July 28, 2023