As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of the...
Entries Tagged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Editorial
Worth Noting - March 2015
People/AwardsThe Attleboro (Mass.) Wastewater Treatment Plant received an Industrial Pretreatment Program Excellence Award from the U.S. EPA.David A. Simmons was hired as...
Online Exclusives
EPA's 2016 Budget Proposal Increases Funding for Water/Wastewater Infrastructure
On Feb. 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 budget. The $8.6 billion budget is a...
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Florida Operator Dies in Plant Accident
Plant operator Herminio Padilla Jr., 48, died Saturday at the East Central Regional Water Reclamation Facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., after...
Online Exclusives
EPA Launches Infrastructure Finance Center
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched the Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center to help communities across the country improve their wastewater,...
Online Exclusives
EPA Grants to Fund Environmental Education in Northwest
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting grant applications for its Environmental Education Grants Program. The grants seek to support locally focused...
Editorial
Worth Noting - January 2015
People / AwardsKelly Zimmer of Rock Springs was elected president of the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association. Zimmer manages drinking water and wastewater...
Online Exclusives
Water Works To Sue Neighboring Counties
Des Moines Water Works in Des Moines, Iowa — alarmed by rising nitrate levels in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers —...
Online Exclusives
Flight Path: 5 Beautiful Wastewater Treatment Plant Aerials
About 12 years ago, Marcel Tremblay earned his pilot’s license and began a hobby that combined two of his passions: wastewater treatment...
Online Exclusives
Coal Ash Regulations to Guard Water Supplies
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals, or coal...
Blogs
Here's to 40 Years of Safe Drinking Water
1974.Nixon was impeached. The Watergate trial began. The first extraterrestrial message was sent from Earth into space. John Lennon’s solo “Whatever Gets...
Online Exclusives
Congressional Panel Approves WIFIA Funds
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, a U.S. House-Senate conference committee approved spending legislation for the 2015 fiscal year that includes funding for the...
Online Exclusives
WERF Awards Contract for Nutrient Removal Study
The Water Environment Research Foundation is launching its third project under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded National Research Center for Resource Recovery and...
Online Exclusives
From Food to Energy: San Jose Celebrates Recycling Program Anniversary
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose celebrated the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program with a tour of the nation’s...










