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• 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 settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  Waste Management, Inc., agrees to pay $104k penalty and make immediate improvements

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  • Release Date: September 30, 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 settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  Settlement resolves claims stemming from 2016 UPRR train derailment, spill, and fire

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  • Release Date: September 15, 2021

• North Dakota Pipeline Company to Pay $35 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties for Largest-Ever Inland Spill of Produced Water from Oil Drilling

  Pipeline Rupture Caused 29 Million Gallon Spill Over 143 Days Before Discovery

  EPA News Release: North Dakota Pipeline Company to Pay $35 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties for Largest-Ever Inland Spill of Produced Water from Oil Drilling

  • Release Date: August 6, 2021

• EPA proposed settlement with Phoenix Petroleum resolves Clean Water Act violations at North Dakota oil production facilities

  Company agrees to penalty associated with an inadequate spill prevention plan and field implementation of the plan at two tank batteries

  EPA News Release: EPA proposed settlement with Phoenix Petroleum resolves Clean Water Act violations at North Dakota oil production facilities

  • Release Date: June 17, 2021

• EPA Administrator Regan Visits North Dakota to Hear from Elected Officials, Industry, Environmental Leaders, Makes First Visit to Indian Country

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Regan Visits North Dakota to Hear from Elected Officials, Industry, Environmental Leaders, Makes First Visit to Indian Country

  • Release Date: June 4, 2021

• EPA awards $723,000 in grants for beach water quality monitoring in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $723,000 in grants for beach water quality monitoring in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington

  • Release Date: May 10, 2021

• Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians receive EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  EPA News Release: Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians receive EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  • Release Date: May 3, 2021

• EPA Announces $4.5 Million in Grants Available for Tribes to Replace Diesel Equipment and Reduce Harmful Emissions

  For the first time under this competition, matching funds are not required.

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $4.5 Million in Grants Available for Tribes to Replace Diesel Equipment and Reduce Harmful Emissions

  • Release Date: April 30, 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 proposes settlement with Arrow Midstream to resolve produced water releases on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota

  Proposed penalty addresses the discharge of contaminants from the Moccasin Creek and Two Shields Butte pipelines

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes settlement with Arrow Midstream to resolve produced water releases on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota

  • Release Date: April 12, 2021

• EPA settlement with Hess Corporation for Clean Water Act violations at North Dakota gas plant

  Company agrees to penalty associated with inadequate spill prevention and response plans at Tioga facility

  EPA News Release: EPA settlement with Hess Corporation for Clean Water Act violations at North Dakota gas plant

  • Release Date: March 11, 2021

• EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  Settlement with businesses, federal, state, and local agencies for remedial design of the Swan Island Basin area brings the last and largest area into active cleanup work

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021