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• EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  Waste Management, Inc., agrees to pay $104k penalty and make immediate improvements

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA awards 15 Northwest tribes nearly $2 million for water quality improvement and wetland program development

  EPA News Release: EPA awards 15 Northwest tribes nearly $2 million for water quality improvement and wetland program development

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA Announces 2021 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Pacific Northwest

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 2021 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners in the Pacific Northwest

  • Release Date: September 21, 2021

• EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  Owens-Brockway Glass failed to report chromium used in glassmaking

  EPA News Release: EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  • Release Date: September 16, 2021

• EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  Settlement resolves claims stemming from 2016 UPRR train derailment, spill, and fire

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  • Release Date: September 15, 2021

• EPA Proposes Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  EPA: Soil, Water, and Columbia River bottom near Army Corps facility are contaminated with PCBs, PAHs, heavy metals, and other contaminants.

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Bradford Island near Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River to the National Priorities or “Superfund” List

  • Release Date: September 8, 2021

• EPA, State and Local Partners Team up to Address PFAS in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

  EPA Region 10 supports Pacific Northwest and Alaskan efforts to identify and reduce toxic threats

  EPA News Release: EPA, State and Local Partners Team up to Address PFAS in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

  • Release Date: July 29, 2020

• EPA Releases Final Plan for Quendall Terminals Cleanup

  Creosote, coal tar have polluted land, Lake Washington sediments

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Final Plan for Quendall Terminals Cleanup

  • Release Date: July 28, 2020

• EPA to begin time-critical removal work at Kaiser site in Mead, Washington

  Asbestos, PCBs at former aluminum smelter pose risks to people

  EPA News Release: EPA to begin time-critical removal work at Kaiser site in Mead, Washington

  • Release Date: July 23, 2020

• EPA proposes to remove all or part of three Washington Superfund sites from the National Priorities List

  Washington sites affected by today’s announcement: American Crossarm & Conduit (Chehalis), Northside Landfill (Spokane) and the soils portion of Queen City Farms (Maple Valley). Public is invited to comment.

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes to remove all or part of three Washington Superfund sites from the National Priorities List

  • Release Date: July 14, 2020

• Bogus Basin Recreational Association and EPA settle alleged stormwater violations at ski area near Boise, Idaho

  EPA News Release: Bogus Basin Recreational Association and EPA settle alleged stormwater violations at ski area near Boise, Idaho

  • Release Date: July 8, 2020

• Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  Drinking Water Providers Partnership grants benefit clean water, people, salmon and trout

  EPA News Release: Drinking water protection projects in Oregon and Washington get $400,000 boost from federal and state drinking water partnership grants

  • Release Date: July 6, 2020

• EPA awards Idaho Department of Environmental Quality just over $2 million to protect water quality statewide

  EPA partners with Idaho to protect and restore watersheds, streams and groundwater

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Idaho Department of Environmental Quality just over $2 million to protect water quality statewide

  • Release Date: July 1, 2020