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• EPA Announces 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Northwest

  Winners helped consumers access products with safer ingredients and showed leadership in green chemistry and sustainable packaging

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Northwest

  • Release Date: September 24, 2024

• Teck Alaska pays $429K penalty for hazardous waste violations at Red Dog Mine

  EPA's settlement with Teck Alaska, Incorporated, for hazardous waste violations at Red Dog Mine near Kotzebue, Alaska.

  • Release Date: August 6, 2024

• Federal, Tribal, and State Leaders Launch Puget Sound Federal Leadership Task Force

  EPA News Release: Federal, Tribal, and State Leaders Launch Puget Sound Federal Leadership Task Force

  • Release Date: May 4, 2023

• EPA Region 10 announces Regional Pollution Prevention Award Program

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 10 announces Regional Pollution Prevention Award Program

  • Release Date: April 5, 2023

• EPA issues Toxics Release Inventory 2021 report on chemical releases and waste management in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

  EPA News Release: EPA issues Toxics Release Inventory 2021 report on chemical releases and waste management in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest

  • Release Date: March 16, 2023

• EPA Region 10 Announces Virtual Listening Session on PFAS Strategic Roadmap

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 10 Announces Virtual Listening Session on PFAS Strategic Roadmap

  • Release Date: February 22, 2023

• EPA Awards $750,000 Pollution Prevention Grants to Oregon, Idaho and the Knik Tribal Council, Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards $750,000 Pollution Prevention Grants to Oregon, Idaho and the Knik Tribal Council, Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  • Release Date: October 19, 2022

• Oakridge-Westfir communities attain Clean Air Act standards for fine particle pollution

  Local collaborative efforts result in cleaner and healthier air during winter months

  EPA News Release: Oakridge-Westfir communities attain Clean Air Act standards for fine particle pollution

  • Release Date: September 23, 2022

• EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  Agency has provided Oregon with $8.3 million to revitalize blighted sites

  EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  • Release Date: August 11, 2022

• Air Force agrees to pay $206,811 EPA penalty for hazardous waste violations at Eareckson Air Station in Alaska

  EPA News Release: Air Force agrees to pay $206,811 EPA penalty for hazardous waste violations at Eareckson Air Station in Alaska

  • Release Date: June 23, 2022

• EPA Adds Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  EPA News Release: EPA Adds Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  • Release Date: March 17, 2022

• EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee adopts infrastructure investment recommendations for communities, climate, and environmental justice

  EPA News Release: EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee adopts infrastructure investment recommendations for communities, climate, and environmental justice

  • Release Date: February 17, 2022

• Chemical Hazard Reporting & Planning Enforcement Actions by EPA Region 10 in 2021

  EPA News Release: Chemical Hazard Reporting & Planning Enforcement Actions by EPA Region 10 in 2021

  • Release Date: February 16, 2022

• Chemical Accident Prevention Enforcement Actions Taken by EPA Region 10 in 2021

  EPA News Release: Chemical Accident Prevention Enforcement Actions Taken by EPA Region 10 in 2021

  • 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