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• EPA Approves Kansas’ and Iowa’s Lists of Impaired Waters

  EPA News Release: EPA Approves Kansas’ and Iowa’s Lists of Impaired Waters

  • Release Date: May 3, 2022

• EPA Recognizes ReHarvest Partners for Excellence and Innovation in Financing Projects to Improve Iowa Water Quality

  Two rural Kansas water infrastructure projects receive honorable mentions

  EPA News Release: EPA Recognizes ReHarvest Partners for Excellence and Innovation in Financing Projects to Improve Iowa Water Quality

  • Release Date: February 16, 2022

• EPA Region 7 Recognizes Hartley Elementary School in Lincoln Public School District with Food Recovery Challenge Award

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Recognizes Hartley Elementary School in Lincoln Public School District with Food Recovery Challenge Award

  • Release Date: January 27, 2022

• EPA Honors Sprouts Farmers Market’s Food Rescue Program with National Food Recovery Challenge Award

  Overland Park, Kansas, Sprouts location has almost 1,300% increase in food rescue and recovery

  EPA News Release: EPA Honors Sprouts Farmers Market’s Food Rescue Program with National Food Recovery Challenge Award

  • Release Date: January 27, 2022

• EPA Region 7 Honors K-State PPI and Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, for Sustainable Food Management Practices

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Honors K-State PPI and Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, for Sustainable Food Management Practices

  • Release Date: January 27, 2022

• EPA Region 7 Announces Virtual Public Listening Session March 3 on Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Announces Virtual Public Listening Session March 3 on Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities

  • Release Date: January 26, 2022

• EPA Fines Cleaning Products Manufacturer in Great Bend, Kansas, for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Fines Cleaning Products Manufacturer in Great Bend, Kansas, for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations

  • Release Date: January 25, 2022

• EPA Region 7 Announces Opportunity to Apply for Farmer to Farmer Grant Funding

  $12 million available for historically underserved farm-focused projects in Gulf of Mexico watershed

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Announces Opportunity to Apply for Farmer to Farmer Grant Funding

  • Release Date: December 14, 2021

• KDOT Awarded $127,536 to Reduce Locomotive Diesel Emissions in SW Kansas, SE Colorado, and Oklahoma Panhandle

  EPA News Release: KDOT Awarded $127,536 to Reduce Locomotive Diesel Emissions in SW Kansas, SE Colorado, and Oklahoma Panhandle

  • Release Date: November 22, 2021

• KCMO’s Metropolitan Energy Center Awarded Over $1.4 Million to Reduce Diesel Emissions in Six Regional Cities

  EPA News Release: KCMO’s Metropolitan Energy Center Awarded Over $1.4 Million to Reduce Diesel Emissions in Six Regional Cities

  • Release Date: November 22, 2021

• EPA Fines Pesticide Applicator for Alleged Violations of Federal Pesticide Law on Kansas Farms

  EPA News Release: EPA Fines Pesticide Applicator for Alleged Violations of Federal Pesticide Law on Kansas Farms

  • Release Date: November 10, 2021

• Federal Government, State of Nebraska Fine Big Ox Energy and NLC Energy Venture 30 LLC $1.1 Million for Violations of Multiple Environmental Laws

  EPA News Release: Federal Government, State of Nebraska Fine Big Ox Energy and NLC Energy Venture 30 LLC $1.1 Million for Violations of Multiple Environmental Laws

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• EPA Region 7 Partners with University of Kansas Health System to Promote Safer Management of Bed Bugs and Other Pests at Health Care Facilities

  Sept. 21 webinar will highlight new Integrated Pest Management Toolkit

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 7 Partners with University of Kansas Health System to Promote Safer Management of Bed Bugs and Other Pests at Health Care Facilities

  • Release Date: September 8, 2021

• EPA Takes Action to Address Risks to Public Health by Adding Cherokee Zinc-Weir Smelter Superfund Site to National Priorities List

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Address Risks to Public Health by Adding Cherokee Zinc-Weir Smelter Superfund Site to National Priorities List

  • Release Date: September 8, 2021

• EPA Launches Mobile CyANWeb App to Expand Data Availability Beyond the CyAN Android™ App

  Kansas scientists provide harmful algal blooms research and testing

  EPA News Release: EPA Launches Mobile CyANWeb App to Expand Data Availability Beyond the CyAN Android™ App

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021