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• EPA awards Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium $184,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools, childcare centers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium $184,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools, childcare centers

  • Release Date: November 23, 2021

• EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  • Release Date: November 23, 2021

• EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  Lead paint safety training for contractors, community education workshops offered this fall

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  • Release Date: October 25, 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 Announces Baton Rouge Catholic High School Student Among 2021 President’s Environmental Youth Awards Winners

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Baton Rouge Catholic High School Student Among 2021 President’s Environmental Youth Awards Winners

  • Release Date: August 13, 2021

• Kawerak earns federal grant for hazardous waste ‘backhaul’ efforts in rural Alaska

  EPA News Release: Kawerak earns federal grant for hazardous waste ‘backhaul’ efforts in rural Alaska

  • Release Date: June 16, 2021

• EPA cites Bellevue, WA-based Kaliber for illegal pesticides sales

  Company sold misbranded Chinese-made pesticides on Amazon

  EPA News Release: EPA cites Bellevue, WA-based Kaliber for illegal pesticides sales

  • Release Date: June 4, 2021

• EPA reaches settlements with eight Washington renovators for lead-based paint violations

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlements with eight Washington renovators for lead-based paint violations

  • Release Date: May 4, 2021

• EPA penalizes Univar Solutions USA $165,000 for violations of federal pesticide laws

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Univar Solutions USA $165,000 for violations of federal pesticide laws

  • Release Date: April 19, 2021

• EPA Announces $400,000 in Funding to Small Businesses in Alaska and Washington to Develop Innovative Environmental Technologies

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $400,000 in Funding to Small Businesses in Alaska and Washington to Develop Innovative Environmental Technologies

  • Release Date: April 6, 2021

• EPA Settles with “Texas Flip N Move” TV Show for Alleged Lead-Based Paint Violations

  EPA News Release: EPA Settles with “Texas Flip N Move” TV Show for Alleged Lead-Based Paint Violations

  • Release Date: February 16, 2021

• EPA settles Boise asbestos case with “Wright Brothers, the Building Company” and “First Team Restoration”

  Companies will pay $36,300 penalty for renovation violations

  EPA News Release: EPA settles Boise asbestos case with “Wright Brothers, the Building Company” and “First Team Restoration”

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021

• EPA offers $120,000 in grant funds to support healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA offers $120,000 in grant funds to support healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

  • Release Date: February 9, 2021

• EPA publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory report; releases from Region 6 facilities down by six percent since 2018

  Includes data for Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas

  EPA News Release: EPA publishes 2019 Annual Toxics Release Inventory report; releases from Region 6 facilities down by six percent since 2018

  • Release Date: January 13, 2021

• EPA Awards Cooperative Agreement to Support the National Tribal Toxics Council, Zender Environmental

  Five-year grant to Zender Environmental Health and Research Group will assist NTTC’s work with tribes to develop pollution prevention and chemical risk management programs

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Cooperative Agreement to Support the National Tribal Toxics Council, Zender Environmental

  • Release Date: December 16, 2020