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• 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

• Intalco to pay $5 million penalty for major Clean Air Act violations at former Ferndale smelter

  EPA News Release: Intalco to pay $5 million penalty for major Clean Air Act violations at former Ferndale smelter

  • Release Date: July 23, 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

• EPA invests $3B into clean ports

  EPA opens two grant competitions funding zero-emission port equipment, infrastructure and planning to tackle the climate crisis, reduce pollution and advance environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA invests $3B into clean ports

  • Release Date: February 29, 2024

• EPA Cracks Down on Companies in California, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington State for Selling Illegal Auto Parts that Avoid Pollution Controls

  EPA News Release: EPA Cracks Down on Companies in California, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington State for Selling Illegal Auto Parts that Avoid Pollution Controls

  • Release Date: August 24, 2023

• EPA approves Washington’s Smoke Management Plan to allow strategic use of prescribed fires to manage forest health and protect air quality

  Updated plan provides more flexibility for managing prescribed burning while continuing to minimize air quality impacts from smoke.

  EPA News Release: EPA approves Washington’s Smoke Management Plan to allow strategic use of prescribed fires to manage forest health and protect air quality

  • Release Date: August 10, 2023

• Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  $53 million for 132 local projects nationwide is EPA’s largest ever investment in community air monitoring

  EPA News Release: Community Air Pollution Monitoring Projects in Washington to Receive Over $800,000 in EPA Funding

  • Release Date: November 3, 2022

• Washington Schools Receive $2 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program

  Historic investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law headed to all 50 states in effort to transform America’s school bus fleets

  EPA News Release: Washington Schools Receive $2 Million from EPA’s Clean School Bus Program

  • Release Date: October 26, 2022

• 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 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 to help schools in Oregon and Washington become Community Cleaner Air and Cooling Centers

  Schools will receive technical assistance to create cleaner air and neighborhood cooling refuges in vulnerable communities impacted by wildfire smoke and extreme heat events

  EPA News Release: EPA to help schools in Oregon and Washington become Community Cleaner Air and Cooling Centers

  • Release Date: November 1, 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 issues report on health of Salish Sea

  EPA News Release: EPA issues report on health of Salish Sea

  • Release Date: July 14, 2021

• EPA levies $66k penalty against DDM Imports for illegal truck imports

  3rd case against Airway Heights, WA company

  EPA News Release: EPA levies $66k penalty against DDM Imports for illegal truck imports

  • Release Date: June 30, 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