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• EPA Pacific Southwest Region Announces New Toxics Release Inventory, Covering Expanded Sectors and Chemicals

  EPA News Release: EPA Pacific Southwest Region Announces New Toxics Release Inventory, Covering Expanded Sectors and Chemicals

  • Release Date: March 22, 2024

• EPA Orders City of Los Angeles to Implement Improvements to Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Largest Western U.S. Plant spilled 12.5 million gallons of untreated sewage in July 2021.

  EPA News Release: EPA Orders City of Los Angeles to Implement Improvements to Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant

  • Release Date: March 21, 2024

• EPA Investing Over $43 Million in New Funding to Protect and Restore San Francisco Bay and Its Watersheds

  EPA will also open a new San Francisco Bay program office later this year

  EPA News Release: EPA Investing Over $43 Million in New Funding to Protect and Restore San Francisco Bay and Its Watersheds

  • Release Date: March 12, 2024

• EPA completes 17 miles of sewer line inspection and continues to sample drinking water lines impacted by Maui wildfires

  This work will support the County of Maui’s efforts to restore wastewater and drinking water impacted by the wildfires

  EPA News Release: EPA completes 17 miles of sewer line inspection and continues to sample drinking water lines impacted by Maui wildfires

  • Release Date: March 11, 2024

• EPA Adds Sites to the Superfund National Priorities List, including the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District in Navajo Nation

  EPA News Release: EPA Adds Sites to the Superfund National Priorities List, including the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District in Navajo Nation

  • Release Date: March 5, 2024

• EPA Proposes to Add Afterthought Mine in Shasta County, Calif. to Superfund National Priorities List

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes to Add Afterthought Mine in Shasta County, Calif. to Superfund National Priorities List

  • Release Date: March 5, 2024

• EPA Awards Over $650,000 for Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Recycling Project

  Grant funded in part by the largest recycling investment in 30 years

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Over $650,000 for Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Recycling Project

  • Release Date: March 5, 2024

• EPA Completes Nighttime Operations on Sanitary Sewer Lines in Lahaina on March 2nd

  EPA News Release: EPA Completes Nighttime Operations on Sanitary Sewer Lines in Lahaina on March 2nd

  • Release Date: March 4, 2024

• U.S. EPA issues PCB permit to Kettleman Hills hazardous waste facility

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA issues PCB permit to Kettleman Hills hazardous waste facility

  • Release Date: July 30, 2020

• U.S. EPA Continues to Aggressively Address PFAS in the Pacific Southwest

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA Continues to Aggressively Address PFAS in the Pacific Southwest

  • Release Date: July 29, 2020

• U.S. EPA settles with Pacific Seafood for wastewater violations in Eureka, California

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA settles with Pacific Seafood for wastewater violations in Eureka, California

  • Release Date: July 27, 2020

• U.S. EPA settles with Irvine, Calif., manufacturer for selling illegal “defeat device” pollution-control bypass equipment

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA settles with Irvine, Calif., manufacturer for selling illegal “defeat device” pollution-control bypass equipment

  • Release Date: July 23, 2020

• EPA fines Hawai‘i local and state governments, requires three cesspool closures in effort to protect groundwater

  EPA News Release: EPA fines Hawai‘i local and state governments, requires three cesspool closures in effort to protect groundwater

  • Release Date: July 22, 2020

• Pacific Energy to pay civil penalty for violations of the Clean Water Act at the American Samoa Terminal

  EPA News Release: Pacific Energy to pay civil penalty for violations of the Clean Water Act at the American Samoa Terminal

  • Release Date: July 22, 2020

• U.S. EPA Awards over $780,000 to UC Riverside to Advance Research Related to Air Quality

  Almost $6 Million in Research Funding Awarded Nationwide

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA Awards over $780,000 to UC Riverside to Advance Research Related to Air Quality

  • Release Date: July 9, 2020