Recent Additions

October 13, 2006

EPA and USDA´s Natural Resources Conservation Service Sign a Water Quality Trading Partnership Agreement on Oct. 13, 2006

September 12, 2006

December 20, 2005

September 21, 2005

November 10, 2004

May 19, 2004

Summary information on current trading efforts in the U.S. (link no longer available)

December 1, 2003

EPA's Trading web site has been revised to add some frequently asked questions about trading and the 2003 Trading Policy, and some new links to trading information.

August 15, 2003

Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook: EPA Region 10's Guide to Analyzing Your Watershed, EPA 910-B-03-003, July 2003, 100 pgs.
This new Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook is now available online. EPA's Trading Policy encourages water quality trading as a business-like way of focusing on cost-effective, local solutions to pollution problems. This handbook can help you investigate whether this tool is right for your watershed. The handbook guides you through a structured assessment of trading opportunities. It looks at the environmental,economic, and technical factors that influence your ability to create a water quality trading market.

May 15, 2003

A detailed agenda and registration form for the National Forum on Water Quality Trading to be held in Chicago on July 22 and 23, 2003 is now available.

March 10, 2003

The Great Lakes Trading Network (GLTN) officially changed its name to the Environmental Trading Network (ETN)

January 13, 2003

On Jan 13, 2003, EPA issued its final Water Quality Trading Policy which offers guidance to states and tribes on developing and implementing water quality trading programs. The policy describes how water quality trading programs may be aligned with the Clean Water Act and implementing regulations and discusses elements of environmentally sound trading programs. Water quality trading is a market-based approach to meeting clean water goals that allows a source to meet its regulatory obligations by using pollutant reductions created by another party with lower pollution control costs.

June 28, 2002

EPA' s Proposed Water Quality Trading Policy -- Public comment period extended until July 15, 2002 (comments must be received or post-marked by midnight on July 15, 2002).

May 15, 2002

EPA annouced the availability of a new Proposed Water Quality Trading Policy for pubic comment in the Federal Register today. A copy of the proposed policy, Federal Register notice and fact sheet are posted on EPA's Trading web site.