U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt recently praised the U.S. Senate’s action to confirm David Ross to serve as the...
Entries Tagged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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A Michigan Plant Works to Prove a Simple, Low-Cost Formula for Producing Class A Biosolids
There are various ways to produce Class A biosolids. Mark Bowman wants to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency that his preferred...
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EPA Launches Cross-Agency Effort to Address PFAS
The U.S. EPA is announcing a cross-agency effort to address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS, which includes PFOA, PFOS and GenX,...
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Idaho Gets Bang for Its Buck With Dixie Drain Project
Water-quality professionals are confirming what fishermen and boaters on U.S. waterways already know: Nutrient pollution is increasingly damaging the water environment.In its...
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Biofuel Advocates Urge EPA to Invest in Homegrown Fuels
In a display of unity, the nation’s leading advocates for advanced liquid and gasified biofuels recently urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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News Briefs: Top EPA Official Resigns Over Agency's Course Under Trump
A 30-year U.S. EPA senior official left federal service Aug. 1 convinced that her agency is being steered in a disastrously wrong...
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EPA Tool Offers One-Stop Shop for Infrastructure Financing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching the Water Finance Clearinghouse, a web‐based portal to help communities make more informed financing decisions...
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Flint Congressman Proposes New Federal Lead Regulations
U.S. Representative from Flint introduces new lead regulationsMichigan Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Flint) introduced a bill in early April to require the U.S....
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News Briefs: EPA Official Says 'No Reasonable Operator' Would Have OK'd Flint Plant
Robert Kaplan, the EPA’s interim Region 5 director, says Flint, Michigan’s water plant should never have gotten the approval to operate.“No reasonable...
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News Briefs: Worker Rescued After Falling Into Treatment Plant Hole
A Baton Rouge Wastewater Treatment worker was recently hospitalized following an incident that left him trapped in a hole at the facility.The...
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News Briefs: Salaries Docked for 25 Water Employees After Data Falsification
The city of Youngstown, Ohio, has reduced the salaries and suspended 25 water employees who were found guilty of falsifying credentials.The workers...
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Updated Water Management Plan to Help Utilities Meet Infrastructure Challenges
Nearly a decade after an agreement among six water trade organizations and the EPA that pledged to develop a water sector utility...
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What Will the Trump Administration Mean for the Water, Wastewater Industry?
“We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our...
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EPA Announces $1 Billion in Credit Assistance for Water Infrastructure Projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the availability of approximately $1 billion in credit assistance for water infrastructure projects under the...












