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• Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  EPA News Release: Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  • Release Date: November 10, 2020

• EPA Calls for Nominations for the 2021 President’s Environmental Student and Teacher Awards

  Applications due by February 19, 2021

  EPA News Release: EPA Calls for Nominations for the 2021 President’s Environmental Student and Teacher Awards

  • Release Date: October 28, 2020

• Senior EPA Officials Announce Great Lakes Grants During Visit to Superior and Duluth

  Funding for ballast water research highlighted

  EPA News Release: Senior EPA Officials Announce Great Lakes Grants During Visit to Superior and Duluth

  • Release Date: September 8, 2020

• EPA Announces Removal of Lower Menominee River from List of Great Lakes Areas of Concern

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Removal of Lower Menominee River from List of Great Lakes Areas of Concern

  • Release Date: September 3, 2020

• EPA Highlights Recovery of Great Lakes Piping Plover

  Endangered shorebird recovering thanks to GLRI support and partnerships

  EPA News Release: EPA Highlights Recovery of Great Lakes Piping Plover

  • Release Date: August 13, 2020

• EPA Announces Significant Air Quality Improvement in Jefferson County, Kentucky

  Area now meets the 2010 1-Hour Federal Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Significant Air Quality Improvement in Jefferson County, Kentucky

  • Release Date: August 10, 2020

• EPA Supports States in Addressing PFAS Across the Southeast

  Through technical assistance, grants and enforcement, EPA Region 4 assists states, tribes and local communities respond to PFAS challenges

  EPA News Release: EPA Supports States in Addressing PFAS Across the Southeast

  • Release Date: July 29, 2020

• EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  EPA News Release: EPA Requests Applications for $6 Million Grant to Monitor Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Over $12 Million in Grants to Improve Great Lakes Fisheries and Michigan Water Quality

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• EPA Administrator Wheeler Appoints New Members to the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Wheeler Appoints New Members to the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee

  • Release Date: June 17, 2020

• EPA Celebrates 50th Earth Day At Home and Online

  EPA News Release: EPA Celebrates 50th Earth Day At Home and Online

  • Release Date: April 23, 2020

• EPA announces $2.9 million Great Lakes project to clean up contaminated sediment in Detroit River, enabling expansion of city’s Riverwalk

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $2.9 million Great Lakes project to clean up contaminated sediment in Detroit River, enabling expansion of city’s Riverwalk

  • Release Date: April 14, 2020

• EPA awards over $9 million in GLRI funding for projects to reduce excess nutrients in the Great Lakes

  EPA News Release: EPA awards over $9 million in GLRI funding for projects to reduce excess nutrients in the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: April 14, 2020

• EPA awards $6.4 million to Great Lakes Fishery Commission for projects to restore and manage fish species

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $6.4 million to Great Lakes Fishery Commission for projects to restore and manage fish species

  • Release Date: April 13, 2020

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative receives $20 million in additional funding

  EPA proposes allocations of FY 2020 funding increase

  EPA News Release: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative receives $20 million in additional funding

  • Release Date: April 9, 2020