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• EPA Secures Agreement from Chemours to Conduct New Sampling for PFAS Contamination near Washington Works, WV Facility

  Agreement Reflects Agency’s National Enforcement Compliance Initiative on Addressing Exposure to PFAS

  EPA News Release: EPA Secures Agreement from Chemours to Conduct New Sampling for PFAS Contamination near Washington Works, WV Facility

  • Release Date: December 20, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Selects Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to Receive $50,000,000 to Fund Environmental Justice Projects Across the Mid-Atlantic as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  Grantmaker selected to reduce barriers to federal funds and issue thousands of environmental justice grants over the next three years

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Selects Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to Receive $50,000,000 to Fund Environmental Justice Projects Across the Mid-Atlantic as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  • Release Date: December 20, 2023

• EPA Names Martha Shimkin as New Director of Chesapeake Bay Program

  EPA News Release: EPA Names Martha Shimkin as New Director of Chesapeake Bay Program

  • Release Date: December 15, 2023

• EPA Proposes Water Quality Standards to Protect Aquatic Life in Certain Sections of the Delaware River

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Water Quality Standards to Protect Aquatic Life in Certain Sections of the Delaware River

  • Release Date: December 14, 2023

• EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator Offers Tips for an Environmentally-Friendly Holiday

  EPA News Release: EPA Mid-Atlantic Administrator Offers Tips for an Environmentally-Friendly Holiday

  • Release Date: December 13, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million to Recruit and Train Pennsylvania Workers for Community Revitalization and Cleanup Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  Latest funding for EPA’s Brownfield Job Training Grants is supported by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and will boost workforce training in underserved and overburdened communities

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million to Recruit and Train Pennsylvania Workers for Community Revitalization and Cleanup Projects as Part of Investing in America Agenda

  • Release Date: December 8, 2023

• EPA Partially Removes Novak Sanitary Landfill Site from National Superfund List

  EPA News Release: EPA Partially Removes Novak Sanitary Landfill Site from National Superfund List

  • Release Date: September 26, 2019

• EPA awards grants to support pollutant reduction plan tied to Conowingo reservoir infill

  EPA News Release: EPA awards grants to support pollutant reduction plan tied to Conowingo reservoir infill

  • Release Date: September 26, 2019

• ALCOSAN settlement modified with green infrastructure as it improves water quality for Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers

  EPA News Release: ALCOSAN settlement modified with green infrastructure as it improves water quality for Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers

  • Release Date: September 19, 2019

• EPA Approves West Virginia Plan to Improve Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Approves West Virginia Plan to Improve Water Quality

  • Release Date: September 13, 2019

• EPA Supporting Pennsylvania In Implementing Chesapeake Bay Restoration Projects

  NFWF to Receive $2.4 Million for Local Projects as Part of Funding Reallocation Plan

  EPA News Release: EPA Supporting Pennsylvania In Implementing Chesapeake Bay Restoration Projects

  • Release Date: September 11, 2019

• EPA Awards Nearly $850,000 to Johns Hopkins University to Advance Research on Alternative Methods to Animal Testing

  Grant is part of $4.25 million to universities on heels of memo from Administrator Wheeler to prioritize agency efforts to reduce animal testing

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Nearly $850,000 to Johns Hopkins University to Advance Research on Alternative Methods to Animal Testing

  • Release Date: September 11, 2019

• EPA Applauds the Smart Refrigerant Management by Weis Markets and Supermarkets Across America

  EPA News Release: EPA Applauds the Smart Refrigerant Management by Weis Markets and Supermarkets Across America

  • Release Date: September 10, 2019

• EPA Completes Clean Up and Removes Strasburg Landfill Site from National Superfund List

  EPA News Release: EPA Completes Clean Up and Removes Strasburg Landfill Site from National Superfund List

  • Release Date: September 5, 2019