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• 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

• EPA concludes hazardous waste cleanups in Oregon after September wildfires

  Agency’s work was first step of a two step recovery process for burned-out properties

  EPA News Release: EPA concludes hazardous waste cleanups in Oregon after September wildfires

  • Release Date: December 9, 2020

• Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center receives EPA grant to help auto repair shops use safer alternatives to toxic chemicals

  EPA News Release: Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center receives EPA grant to help auto repair shops use safer alternatives to toxic chemicals

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• Idaho, Oregon, Washington and partners to receive nearly $1 Million in EPA Pollution Prevention Grants

  EPA News Release: Idaho, Oregon, Washington and partners to receive nearly $1 Million in EPA Pollution Prevention Grants

  • Release Date: September 23, 2020

• EPA Announces $348.6 Million Water Infrastructure Loan to Salt Lake City

  Nationally, EPA’s 28 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $13 billion in water infrastructure projects

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $348.6 Million Water Infrastructure Loan to Salt Lake City

  • Release Date: September 17, 2020

• EPA awards $2 million in grants to reduce toxics throughout Columbia River Basin

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $2 million in grants to reduce toxics throughout Columbia River Basin

  • Release Date: September 16, 2020

• Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW

  Actions finalized in May and June 2020

  EPA News Release: Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW

  • Release Date: September 10, 2020

• EPA Region 8 continues to aggressively address PFAS

  Building on assistance provided to Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming, Trump Administration continues to address PFAS affecting water and drinking water resources

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 8 continues to aggressively address PFAS

  • Release Date: July 30, 2020

• Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  Drinking Water Providers Partnership grants benefit clean water, people, salmon and trout

  EPA News Release: Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  • Release Date: July 6, 2020

• EPA selects nine projects in Oregon and Washington for $4.75 million in Brownfields funding

  Five Oregon grants ($2.65 million) are part of nationwide $65.6 million Brownfields funding rollout

  EPA News Release: EPA selects nine projects in Oregon and Washington for $4.75 million in Brownfields funding

  • Release Date: May 6, 2020

• U.S. settles with Oregon landowner over federal Clean Water Act violations near the banks of the North Santiam River

  EPA News Release: U.S. settles with Oregon landowner over federal Clean Water Act violations near the banks of the North Santiam River

  • Release Date: April 13, 2020

• Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  Actions finalized in November and December 2019

  EPA News Release: Recent EPA enforcement cases throughout the PNW & Alaska

  • Release Date: April 9, 2020

• EPA settles with Eastern Oregon fuel distributor for fuel storage violations

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Eastern Oregon fuel distributor for fuel storage violations

  • Release Date: April 2, 2020

• EPA Administrator Appoints Lacey, Washington, Deputy Mayor, Cynthia Pratt and Coos County, Oregon, Commissioner, Melissa Cribbins, to EPA Local Government Advisory Committee

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Appoints Lacey, Washington, Deputy Mayor, Cynthia Pratt and Coos County, Oregon, Commissioner, Melissa Cribbins, to EPA Local Government Advisory Committee

  • Release Date: February 26, 2020

• EPA Region 8 releases 2019 Year in Review highlighting accomplishments and environmental progress under President Trump & Administrator Andrew Wheeler

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 8 releases 2019 Year in Review highlighting accomplishments and environmental progress under President Trump & Administrator Andrew Wheeler

  • Release Date: February 6, 2020