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• GT Metals & Salvage pays Clean Water Act penalty

  The company agreed to pay a $50,300 penalty for stormwater pollution violations

  EPA News Release: GT Metals & Salvage pays Clean Water Act penalty

  • Release Date: March 31, 2022

• EPA Proposes to Restore Protective Pollution Standards for Washington Waters

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes to Restore Protective Pollution Standards for Washington Waters

  • Release Date: March 29, 2022

• EPA grants $32 million to Oregon for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  State estimates $70 million for wastewater, $70 million for drinking water projects

  EPA News Release: EPA grants $32 million to Oregon for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  • Release Date: March 24, 2022

• EPA grants $20 million to Alaska for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  State estimates $94 million for wastewater, $57 million for drinking water projects

  EPA News Release: EPA grants $20 million to Alaska for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  • Release Date: March 24, 2022

• EPA grants $52 million to Washington for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  State estimates $253.5 million available for wastewater, $22 million for drinking water

  EPA News Release: EPA grants $52 million to Washington for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

  • Release Date: March 24, 2022

• State of Alaska and Fairbanks North Star Borough Receive $5.6 Million EPA Grant to Improve Air Quality in Fairbanks

  EPA News Release: State of Alaska and Fairbanks North Star Borough Receive $5.6 Million EPA Grant to Improve Air Quality in Fairbanks

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• EPA Adds Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  EPA News Release: EPA Adds Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• EPA and Justice Department Propose Settlement to Resolve Federal Hazardous Waste and Oil Spill Prevention Violations on the North Slope of Alaska

  EPA News Release: EPA and Justice Department Propose Settlement to Resolve Federal Hazardous Waste and Oil Spill Prevention Violations on the North Slope of Alaska

  • Release Date: March 16, 2022

• EPA penalizes Hilcorp Alaska $180,580 for Clean Air Act violations

  Company allowed methane, VOC leaks to go undetected and unrepaired

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Hilcorp Alaska $180,580 for Clean Air Act violations

  • Release Date: March 8, 2022

• New EPA Toxics Release Inventory report shows decline in chemical releases in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

  EPA News Release: New EPA Toxics Release Inventory report shows decline in chemical releases in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

  • Release Date: March 3, 2022

• EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Highlights Common-Ground WOTUS Strategy, Infrastructure Investment for Alaska

  EPA News Release: EPA Assistant Administrator for Water Highlights Common-Ground WOTUS Strategy, Infrastructure Investment for Alaska

  • Release Date: March 1, 2022

• EPA challenge seeks innovative solutions for reducing indoor air pollution from western wildfires

  EPA News Release: EPA challenge seeks innovative solutions for reducing indoor air pollution from western wildfires

  • Release Date: February 17, 2021

• EPA settles Boise asbestos case with “Wright Brothers, the Building Company” and “First Team Restoration”

  Companies will pay $36,300 penalty for renovation violations

  EPA News Release: EPA settles Boise asbestos case with “Wright Brothers, the Building Company” and “First Team Restoration”

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021

• EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  Settlement with businesses, federal, state, and local agencies for remedial design of the Swan Island Basin area brings the last and largest area into active cleanup work

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021

• 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