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• EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  EPA News Release: EPA issues final PCBs reduction plan for Spokane River

  • Release Date: October 29, 2024

• EPA announces $104M clean ports investments in Washington

  EPA’s Clean Ports Program to fund zero-emission port equipment, infrastructure, and planning projects to tackle climate change, reduce air pollution, and advance environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA announces $104M clean ports investments in Washington

  • Release Date: October 29, 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 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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