Environmental Topics

EPA Invests in Wetland Projects Throughout the Mid-Atlantic

EPA is announcing $2.55 million in wetland grant funding to region 3 mid-atlantic states and universities with goal of protecting and improving water quality, preserving existing wetland habitat and increasing acreage, and monitor/assess health of aquatic.

• Release Date: September 24, 2026

EPA Lowers Costs, Helps Bring Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites Back to Productive Use in the Midwest

Permitting reform championed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin leads to highest underground storage tank site closure rate on Midwest Tribal territories in more than a decade

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced monitoring and remediation partnerships with Tribal communities brought a record number of underground storage tank sites back to productive use.

• Release Date: September 24, 2026

Wednesday: EPA Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber and Saraland Mayor Joe McDonald to Highlight Significant Brownfields Investments in South Alabama 

On Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Kevin McOmber and City of Saraland Mayor Joe McDonald will join state and local officials to highlight $4 million in Brownfields funding.

• Release Date: September 23, 2026

EPA and HHS Announce New Scientific Partnership to Strengthen Glyphosate Review

EPA and HHS today announced a new interagency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen scientific coordination and expand the evidence available to EPA’s ongoing registration review of glyphosate under FIFRA.

• Release Date: September 22, 2026