News Work Continues on Federal Appropriations The House on Wednesday passed a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown when current funding expires on December 16th. The Senate passed… Read More »
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ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 35 (Week of December 5, 2022)
News Addressing PFAS Discharges in NPDES Permits and Through the Pretreatment Program and Monitoring Programs This week EPA’s Office of Water issued a memorandum to the 10 Regional Water Directors… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XIII, Issue 7 (Week of February 28, 2022)
News Environmental Justice Data System Updates On Friday, February 18, 2022, EPA provided a number of updates to EJScreen used to pinpoint disadvantaged communities suffering from legacy environmental pollution. EJScreen… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 39 (Week of November 1, 2021)
News Agencies Extend WOTUS Stakeholder Nomination Period On October 13, 2021, EPA and the Army (the agencies) announced a process for stakeholders to nominate a slate of participants to potentially… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XII, Issue 14 (Week of April 19, 2021)
News ACWA Supports Robust USGS Streamgage Funding for FY2022 ACWA recently joined a broad coalition of groups in urging Congress to fully fund the USGS Streamgage Networks. The Streamgage Networks… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 38 (Week of Nov. 9, 2020)
News President-Elect Biden Names EPA Agency Review Team As President-Elect Biden moves forward with transition preparations, he has released the names of agency review teams that are responsible for understanding… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. XI, Issue 1 (Week of January 6, 2020)
News WGA Policy Resolution on Federal State Relationship The Western Governors’ Association recently approved several policy resolutions, including a resolution focused on the Federal-State relationship, during its winter meeting in… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. X, Issue 42 (Week of December 2, 2019)
News EPA Seeks Nominations for Environmental Financial Advisory Board The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking nominations of candidates for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB). Nominations are due no… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. X, Issue 33 (Week of September 23, 2019)
News EPA Takes Two Important Steps Under PFAS Action Plan EPA has given advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow the public to provide input on adding PFAS to… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. X, Issue 31 (Week of September 9, 2019)
News Administration Repeals 2015 Clean Water Rule Defining “Waters of the United States” This week, EPA and the Department of the Army published a final rule to repeal the 2015… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. X, Issue 8 (Week of February 25, 2019)
News Andrew Wheeler Confirmed as EPA Administrator On February 28th, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Andrew Wheeler as the new EPA administrator. The Senate voted 52-47 in favor of… Read More »
ACWA Weekly Wrap Vol. IX, Issue 41 (Week of November 5, 2018)
News AA Wheeler Releases Memo on State Oversight of Federal Programs The 2018-2022 EPA Strategic Plan identifies cooperative federalism (Goal 2) as a fundamental priority for the agency with a… Read More »
