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• Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  EPA News Release: Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  • Release Date: August 22, 2022

• EPA Awards $400,000 Environmental Education Grants to Empower Students, Teachers and Communities in Oregon and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards $400,000 Environmental Education Grants to Empower Students, Teachers and Communities in Oregon and Washington

  • Release Date: August 18, 2022

• EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  Agency has provided Oregon with $8.3 million to revitalize blighted sites

  EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  • Release Date: August 11, 2022

• EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  Up to $6.9 million in Clean Water Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will be awarded to reduce toxics in fish and water, address climate impacts in communities throughout the Basin

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  • Release Date: August 10, 2022

• EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act 

  EPA News Release: EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act 

  • Release Date: August 5, 2022

• 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 awards 15 Northwest tribes nearly $2 million for water quality improvement and wetland program development

  EPA News Release: EPA awards 15 Northwest tribes nearly $2 million for water quality improvement and wetland program development

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA Announces 2021 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Pacific Northwest

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 2021 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Pacific Northwest

  • Release Date: September 21, 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 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