News President Biden’s FY 2022 Discretionary Funding Request Please see the President’s “skinny” budget request. The discretionary request proposes $769 billion in non-defense discretionary funding in FY 2022, a 16%… Read More »
ECOS
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 8 (Week of March 1, 2021)
News EPA Publishes Flyers Summarizing Bioassessment Program Reviews and the BCG Online EPA has posted online two new flyers that summarize key information found in two longer, previously published EPA… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 25 (Week of July 20, 2020)
News Inspection Expectations During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency This week EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Assistant Administrator, Susan Bodine, sent a letter to states, tribes, territories, and local… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 23 (Week of July 6, 2020)
News Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions Last week, EPA released the spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. This list provides updates on all planned… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 22 (Week of June 22, 2020)
News ECOS Status of State Environmental Agency Budgets ECOS published its report on the Status of State Environmental Agency Budgets (EAB), FY2016 – FY2019 this week. The report notes that… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 6 (Week of February 10, 2020)
News President’s Budget Request Released The Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request, A Budget for America’s Future, this week and continues the Administration’s focus on cutting federal… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 3 (Week of January 21, 2020)
News EPA, Army Announce Final WOTUS Step 2 Revision On January 23, the EPA and the Department of the Army finalized the “Navigable Waters Protection Rule” (i.e. Step 2), the… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. X, Issue 14 (Week of April 15, 2019)
News Earth Day Have a happy Earth Day, Wrap readers! Earth Day is this Monday, April 22. EPA Releases Interpretation of Clean Water Act’s Relation to Groundwater This week, EPA… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 46 (Week of December 17, 2018)
News 2018 Farm Bill Signed This week, President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill. The legislation will cost $867 billion over 10 years. Regarding the conservation title, the Conservation Reserve… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 33 (Week of September 10, 2018)
News ECOS Officers Announced This year is the 25th Anniversary for the Environmental Council of States (ECOS). New officers this year include: President Becky Keogh, Director of the Arkansas Department… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 26 (Week of July 16, 2018)
News EPA to Modify CGP EPA’s Construction General Permit (CGP), which covers stormwater discharges from certain construction activities, became effective on February 16, 2017. The National Association of Home Builders… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 9 (Week of February 26, 2018)
News ECOS Announces New Executive Director ECOS announced this week that Sambhav (Sam) Sankar has been named the new Executive Director and General Counsel. Sankar will take join ECOS on… Read More »
