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• EPA is securing chemicals stored at shuttered Cosmo Specialty Fibers facility in Cosmopolis

  EPA News Release: EPA is securing chemicals stored at shuttered Cosmo Specialty Fibers facility in Cosmopolis

  • Release Date: September 17, 2024

• Gebbers Farms pays $17,000 penalty for failing to protect workers from pesticides

  EPA News Release: Gebbers Farms pays $17,000 penalty for failing to protect workers from pesticides

  • Release Date: August 14, 2024

• EPA proposes PCBs cleanup plan for Spokane River

  Public can comment on plan until July 15

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes PCBs cleanup plan for Spokane River

  • Release Date: May 15, 2024

• Unified command responds to vessel fire in Tacoma, Washington

  EPA News Release: Unified command responds to vessel fire in Tacoma, Washington

  • Release Date: April 9, 2023

• BNSF Swinomish Channel Derailment UNIFIED COMMAND

  News Media Update #3

  EPA News Release: BNSF Swinomish Channel Derailment UNIFIED COMMAND

  • Release Date: March 18, 2023

• Squaxin Island Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  EPA News Release: Squaxin Island Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  • Release Date: March 1, 2023

• EPA fines 22 home renovators and contractors for lead-based paint safety violations in Idaho and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA fines 22 home renovators and contractors for lead-based paint safety violations in Idaho and Washington

  • Release Date: October 24, 2022

• EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  Up to $6.9 million in Clean Water Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will be awarded to reduce toxics in fish and water, address climate impacts in communities throughout the Basin

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  • Release Date: August 10, 2022

• Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  EPA News Release: Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe receives EPA approval to administer Clean Water Act programs on reservation and trust lands

  • Release Date: April 5, 2022

• EPA penalizes SGL Composites for failing to report releases of dangerous chemical

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes SGL Composites for failing to report releases of dangerous chemical

  • Release Date: February 17, 2022

• EPA honors Nisqually Tribe and partners with national award for innovative watershed collaboration

  EPA News Release: EPA honors Nisqually Tribe and partners with national award for innovative watershed collaboration

  • Release Date: February 16, 2022

• EPA announces $34 million in Puget Sound funding

  National Estuary Program provides funds for state, local, tribal, and federal projects.

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $34 million in Puget Sound funding

  • Release Date: December 16, 2021

• EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  Projects will help modernize water infrastructure, protect public health, and increase community resilience

  EPA News Release: EPA Invites Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Projects to Apply for Water Infrastructure Loans

  • Release Date: December 3, 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 City of Wapato for wastewater treatment discharge violations

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with City of Wapato for wastewater treatment discharge violations

  • Release Date: August 5, 2021