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• EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  EPA News Release: EPA Transmits Addition of 32 Waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List

  • Release Date: November 9, 2021

• EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  EPA News Release: EPA, MPCA Begin $16 Million Project to Remove Contaminated Sediment from Duluth-Superior Harbor

  • Release Date: October 1, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  City of Erie, Pennsylvania, and University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh to implement trash collection projects to reduce trash in Lake Erie and Lake Michigan

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards over $725,000 to Address Trash in Lakes Erie and Michigan

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $417,830 to University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  City to install two trash collection systems at Garrison Run

  EPA News Release: Keeping Trash Out of the Great Lakes: EPA Awards $309,300 to City of Erie, Pennsylvania

  • Release Date: September 23, 2021

• EPA removes Arrowhead Refinery Co. site in Hermantown, Minnesota from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes Arrowhead Refinery Co. site in Hermantown, Minnesota from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA removes part of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes part of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• U.S. EPA removes United Scrap Lead Co. site in Troy, Ohio, from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA removes United Scrap Lead Co. site in Troy, Ohio, from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA removes Barrels Inc. site in Lansing from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes Barrels Inc. site in Lansing from Superfund list

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA removes three sites in Bloomington, Indiana, from Superfund List

  Superfund sites include Lemon Lane Landfill, Bennett Stone Quarry and Neal’s Landfill

  EPA News Release: EPA removes three sites in Bloomington, Indiana, from Superfund List

  • Release Date: September 14, 2021

• EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  EPA News Release: EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  Nearly $70 million for cleanup and restoration results in Ohio’s first area of concern delisting

  EPA News Release: EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: August 19, 2021

• EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• EPA Approves Expanded Cleanup Plan for the NIPSCO Bailly Generating Facility in Chesterton, Indiana

  EPA News Release: EPA Approves Expanded Cleanup Plan for the NIPSCO Bailly Generating Facility in Chesterton, Indiana

  • Release Date: July 29, 2021

• EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  Reducing predatory pressure: EPA provided $840,000 of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to improve terns’ nesting area

  EPA News Release: EPA Funding Helps the Terns Return to Interstate Island in Duluth-Superior

  • Release Date: July 21, 2021