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• EPA Renames Its Gulf Division to Honor the Gulf of America

  EPA News Release: EPA Renames Its Gulf Division to Honor the Gulf of America

  • Release Date: February 5, 2025

• EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessment to Advance Scientific Understanding of PFOA and PFOS in Biosolids

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessment to Advance Scientific Understanding of PFOA and PFOS in Biosolids

  • Release Date: January 14, 2025

• EPA Finalizes Protections for Workers and Communities from Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide Pollution

  EPA News Release: EPA Finalizes Protections for Workers and Communities from Cancer-Causing Ethylene Oxide Pollution

  • Release Date: January 14, 2025

• EPA Adds Nine Additional PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory

  EPA News Release: EPA Adds Nine Additional PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory

  • Release Date: January 3, 2025

• Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Rule to Protect Workers from Exposure to C.I. Pigment Violet 29

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Rule to Protect Workers from Exposure to C.I. Pigment Violet 29

  • Release Date: December 20, 2024

• EPA Releases Draft Health-Based Recommendations for PFAS Levels in Bodies of Water

  Criteria can be used to inform water quality standards to protect people from exposure to PFAS

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Draft Health-Based Recommendations for PFAS Levels in Bodies of Water

  • Release Date: December 19, 2024

• EPA Begins Five Chemical Risk Evaluations Under Toxic Substances Control Act, Starts Process for the Next Five Chemicals

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Five Chemical Risk Evaluations Under Toxic Substances Control Act, Starts Process for the Next Five Chemicals

  • Release Date: December 18, 2024

• EPA Report Highlights Water Affordability Challenges in the U.S.

  EPA News Release: EPA Report Highlights Water Affordability Challenges in the U.S.

  • Release Date: December 17, 2024

• EPA Announces $12 Million WIFIA Loan to Modernize and Improve Wastewater Infrastructure in Delaware

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $12 Million WIFIA Loan to Modernize and Improve Wastewater Infrastructure in Delaware

  • Release Date: December 16, 2024

• EPA Launches New Studies and Data Collection Efforts to Better Protect Communities from PFAS

  EPA News Release: EPA Launches New Studies and Data Collection Efforts to Better Protect Communities from PFAS

  • Release Date: December 16, 2024

• EPA Celebrates 50 Years of Safe and Clean Drinking Water

  EPA News Release: EPA Celebrates 50 Years of Safe and Clean Drinking Water

  • Release Date: December 16, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule for Carbon Tetrachloride to Protect Workers

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule for Carbon Tetrachloride to Protect Workers

  • Release Date: December 11, 2024

• EPA Announces the Final Rule to Modernize State and Tribal Implementation of Clean Water Act Program

  This rule provides clarity to state and Tribal partners interested in administering Clean Water Act dredge or fill material permitting

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces the Final Rule to Modernize State and Tribal Implementation of Clean Water Act Program

  • Release Date: December 11, 2024

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Latest Actions under Nation’s Chemical Safety Law to Protect People from Cancer-Causing Chemicals Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene

  Final EPA rules ban all uses of TCE, all consumer uses and many commercial uses of PCE, require worker protections for all remaining uses under the Toxic Substances Control Act

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Latest Actions under Nation’s Chemical Safety Law to Protect People from Cancer-Causing Chemicals Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene

  • Release Date: December 9, 2024

• EPA Reforms New Chemicals Review Process to Better Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency and Consistency

  Final amendments will ensure that new PFAS and persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals are subject to safety review process prior to manufacture

  EPA News Release: EPA Reforms New Chemicals Review Process to Better Protect Public Health, Promote Efficiency and Consistency

  • Release Date: December 4, 2024