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• Washington Teachers Receive 2022 Presidential Award for Environmental Educators

  EPA News Release: Washington Teachers Receive 2022 Presidential Award for Environmental Educators

  • Release Date: June 30, 2022

• EPA Awards Research Grants to Student Teams at Gonzaga University and Oregon State University

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Research Grants to Student Teams at Gonzaga University and Oregon State University

  • Release Date: June 28, 2022

• Air Force agrees to pay $206,811 EPA penalty for hazardous waste violations at Eareckson Air Station in Alaska

  EPA News Release: Air Force agrees to pay $206,811 EPA penalty for hazardous waste violations at Eareckson Air Station in Alaska

  • Release Date: June 23, 2022

• EPA awards $1.2 Million to Alaska tribes to help protect communities from harmful diesel emissions

  EPA is awarding $5.4 million in grants nationwide for tribal and insular areas

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $1.2 Million to Alaska tribes to help protect communities from harmful diesel emissions

  • Release Date: June 23, 2022

• EPA awards $1.2 Million to Washington tribes to help protect communities from harmful diesel emissions

  EPA is awarding $5.4 million in grants nationwide for tribal and insular areas

  EPA News Release: EPA awards $1.2 Million to Washington tribes to help protect communities from harmful diesel emissions

  • Release Date: June 23, 2022

• Space Age Fuel, Inc. to pay $135,000 EPA penalty for N. Santiam oil spill

  Tanker truck crashed on icy road, released oil to river

  EPA News Release: Space Age Fuel, Inc. to pay $135,000 EPA penalty for N. Santiam oil spill

  • Release Date: June 1, 2022

• 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