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• EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  EPA News Release: EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  • Release Date: October 29, 2024

• EPA Announces $2.8M for Washington to upgrade older diesel engines to cleaner, zero-emission solutions

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $2.8M for Washington to upgrade older diesel engines to cleaner, zero-emission solutions

  • Release Date: October 17, 2024

• EPA announces $50 million grant to King County to cut climate pollution, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $50 million grant to King County to cut climate pollution, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice

  • Release Date: July 23, 2024

• EPA awards $730k to support water quality monitoring and protect beachgoers in PNW, Alaska

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $730k to support water quality monitoring and protect beachgoers in PNW, Alaska

  • Release Date: June 13, 2024

• EPA announces $194M to King County to improve wastewater infrastructure resiliency, protect Puget Sound

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $194M to King County to improve wastewater infrastructure resiliency, protect Puget Sound

  • Release Date: March 28, 2024

• EPA invests $3B into clean ports

  EPA opens two grant competitions funding zero-emission port equipment, infrastructure and planning to tackle the climate crisis, reduce pollution and advance environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA invests $3B into clean ports

  • Release Date: February 29, 2024

• EPA announces $8.2M for environmental justice projects in Washington 

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $8.2M for environmental justice projects in Washington 

  • Release Date: October 25, 2023

• EPA $6.3M grant to Salmon-Safe expands agricultural certification program across Columbia Basin

  Yakama Nation receives $4M for Yakima, Klickitat River cleanup

  EPA News Release: EPA $6.3M grant to Salmon-Safe expands agricultural certification program across Columbia Basin

  • Release Date: October 4, 2023

• EPA announces $4.6b in pollution reduction grants for Pacific Northwest, Alaska  

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $4.6b in pollution reduction grants for Pacific Northwest, Alaska  

  • Release Date: September 20, 2023

• EPA announces 3 Pollution Prevention Award winners in Pacific Northwest

  EPA News Release: EPA announces 3 Pollution Prevention Award winners in Pacific Northwest

  • Release Date: September 20, 2023

• EPA selects 7 Washington projects to receive $4.5 million to assess and clean up contaminated brownfields sites 

  EPA announces the largest investment ever in Brownfields communities made by President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda

  EPA News Release: EPA selects 7 Washington projects to receive $4.5 million to assess and clean up contaminated brownfields sites 

  • Release Date: May 25, 2023

• Squaxin Island Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  EPA News Release: Squaxin Island Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  • Release Date: March 1, 2023

• EPA selects City of Tacoma for $500,000 in Brownfield Environmental Job Training Grants

  EPA News Release: EPA selects City of Tacoma for $500,000 in Brownfield Environmental Job Training Grants

  • Release Date: December 14, 2022

• Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  $53 million for 132 local projects nationwide is EPA’s largest ever investment in community air monitoring

  EPA News Release: Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  • Release Date: November 3, 2022

• Washington Schools Receive $2 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program

  Historic investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law headed to all 50 states in effort to transform America’s school bus fleets

  EPA News Release: Washington Schools Receive $2 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program

  • Release Date: October 26, 2022