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• EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  Projects will help modernize water infrastructure, protect public health, and increase community resilience

  EPA News Release: EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  • Release Date: December 3, 2021

• EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  • Release Date: November 23, 2021

• EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  EPA News Release: EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  • Release Date: November 9, 2021

• EPA to help schools in Oregon and Washington become Community Cleaner Air and Cooling Centers

  Schools will receive technical assistance to create cleaner air and neighborhood cooling refuges in vulnerable communities impacted by wildfire smoke and extreme heat events

  EPA News Release: EPA to help schools in Oregon and Washington become Community Cleaner Air and Cooling Centers

  • Release Date: November 1, 2021

• EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  Lead paint safety training for contractors, community education workshops offered this fall

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  • Release Date: October 25, 2021

• EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  Waste Management, Inc., agrees to pay $104k penalty and make immediate improvements

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  Owens-Brockway Glass failed to report chromium used in glassmaking

  EPA News Release: EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  • Release Date: September 16, 2021

• EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  Settlement resolves claims stemming from 2016 UPRR train derailment, spill, and fire

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  • Release Date: September 15, 2021

• EPA removes Arrowhead Refinery Co. site in Hermantown, Minnesota from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes Arrowhead Refinery Co. site in Hermantown, Minnesota from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA removes part of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes part of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

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

  EPA: Soil, Water, and Columbia River bottom near Army Corps facility are contaminated with PCBs, PAHs, heavy metals, and other contaminants.

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

  • Release Date: September 8, 2021

• Simplot pays $65K EPA penalty for pesticides violations

  Idaho & Oregon storage facilities cited for storage problems

  EPA News Release: Simplot pays $65K EPA penalty for pesticides violations

  • Release Date: July 22, 2021

• EPA Announces $569 Million WIFIA Loan for Flood, Climate Resilience in the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area

  Nationally, 52 WIFIA loans are financing $23 billion in water upgrades, creating 54,000 jobs

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $569 Million WIFIA Loan for Flood, Climate Resilience in the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area

  • Release Date: June 18, 2021

• EPA Selects Hennepin County, Minnesota to Receive $500,000 Brownfields Grant

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Hennepin County, Minnesota to Receive $500,000 Brownfields Grant

  • Release Date: June 16, 2021

• Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, The Baker Technical Institute, South Central Oregon Economic Development District and the City of Chiloquin are selected for $2.3 million in EPA Brownfields redevelopment funding

  Brownfields funds will be used to conduct assessments, cleanup planning, and cleanup to rejuvenate formerly contaminated properties in four Oregon communities

  EPA News Release: Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, The Baker Technical Institute, South Central Oregon Economic Development District and the City of Chiloquin are selected for $2.3 million in EPA Brownfields redevelopment funding

  • Release Date: May 11, 2021