EPA is clarifying its NPDES Stormwater Phase II regulations due to the Census Bureau’s recent change that discontinued the practice of defining and publishing the location of “urbanized area.”  EPA

EPA is proposing revisions to the Federal Clean Water Act water quality standards (WQS) regulation to clarify and prescribe how WQS must protect aquatic and aquatic-dependent resources reserved to tribes.

EPA announced the availability of $52 million in grants to help communities improve essential stormwater infrastructure. EPA’s Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants will be used by states to

EPA announced it has achieved major improvement in compliance with Clean Water Act permits over the past five-year period. In FY 2018, EPA and 47 states agreed to collaborate on

Forest Service is announcing up to $40 million will be provided to Trout Unlimited as part of a five (5)-year agreement to improve watersheds on national forests and grasslands, which

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) filed on open comment opposing the EPA’s proposed rule to designate two key PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances.  The current proposal would

EPA announced the selection of twenty-nine (29) Environmental Finance Centers (EFCs) that will help communities across the country access federal funding for infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction projects that improve

Representatives from EPA and the White House Council on Environmental Quality gathered on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland to recognize the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water

With its 2025 deadline a little more than three years away, environmental leaders are publicly acknowledging that the Chesapeake Bay region will miss for the third time a self-imposed cleanup

This week EPA announced two new online tools available to the public that provide additional information on environmental enforcement and compliance in their communities.  The Enforcement and Compliance History Online

This week EPA released twenty (20) Climate Adaptation Implementation Plans that were developed by its major offices, including national program offices and all ten (10) regional offices.  These plans provide

The future of federal jurisdiction over waters and wetlands under the Clean Water Act hinges on a watershed US Supreme Court case scheduled for oral arguments Monday.  The case of

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is announcing $11M in Fiscal Year 2022 to fund eighteen (18) coastal resilience research projects across the nation. The complex challenges of

EPA will exercise its “residual designation authority” to require permit coverage for stormwater discharges from unregulated stormwater pollution sources in the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset River watersheds.  The EPA Clean

EPA is hosting a series of public meetings to inform updates to the industrial stormwater fact sheet series, which provide guidance to each of the 29 industrial sectors covered under