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• EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  EPA News Release: EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  • Release Date: October 1, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  City of Erie, Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh to implement trash collection projects to reduce trash in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  City to install two trash collection systems at Garrison Run

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• EPA deletes portion of Libby, Montana Superfund site from National Priorities List

  Deletion reflects continued cleanup progress at site

  EPA News Release: EPA deletes portion of Libby, Montana Superfund site from National Priorities List

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA adds Billings PCE site in Yellowstone County, Mont. to Superfund List

  EPA News Release: EPA adds Billings PCE site in Yellowstone County, Mont. to Superfund List

  • Release Date: September 8, 2021

• EPA and Justice Department reach settlement with Northern Cheyenne Utilities Commission to address Clean Water Act violations in Montana

  Settlement reflects joint federal and tribal efforts to protect public health, improve water quality and support tribal utility operations on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation

  EPA News Release: EPA and Justice Department reach settlement with Northern Cheyenne Utilities Commission to address Clean Water Act violations in Montana

  • Release Date: August 31, 2021

• EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  EPA News Release: EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  Nearly $70 million for cleanup and restoration results in Ohio’s first area of concern delisting

  EPA News Release: EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: August 19, 2021

• EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  Reducing predatory pressure: EPA provided $840,000 of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to improve terns’ nesting area

  EPA News Release: EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  • Release Date: July 21, 2021

• EPA issues report on health of Salish Sea

  EPA News Release: EPA issues report on health of Salish Sea

  • Release Date: July 14, 2021

• EPA Selects Two New Members to Great Lakes Advisory Board

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Two New Members to Great Lakes Advisory Board

  • Release Date: July 8, 2021

• Four Piping Plovers Hatch in Toledo, Ohio

  U.S. EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding supports the recovery of this endangered species

  EPA News Release: Four Piping Plovers Hatch in Toledo, Ohio

  • Release Date: July 2, 2021

• EPA announces $500,000 to Great Northern Development Corporation to advance cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated Brownfield sites

  Award part of $11.6 million in supplemental funding for Brownfield projects nationwide

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $500,000 to Great Northern Development Corporation to advance cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated Brownfield sites

  • Release Date: June 16, 2021