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• Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  EPA News Release: Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  • Release Date: August 22, 2022

• EPA Awards $400,000 Environmental Education Grants to Empower Students, Teachers and Communities in Oregon and Washington

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards $400,000 Environmental Education Grants to Empower Students, Teachers and Communities in Oregon and Washington

  • Release Date: August 18, 2022

• EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  Agency has provided Oregon with $8.3 million to revitalize blighted sites

  EPA News Release: EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing

  • Release Date: August 11, 2022

• EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  Up to $6.9 million in Clean Water Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding will be awarded to reduce toxics in fish and water, address climate impacts in communities throughout the Basin

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $79 Million Investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Protect and Restore the Columbia River Basin

  • Release Date: August 10, 2022

• EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act 

  EPA News Release: EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act 

  • Release Date: August 5, 2022

• EPA Announces $96 Million WIFIA Loan to King County, Washington to Improve Water Quality in Puget Sound

  Nationally, 43 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $17.1 billion in water infrastructure projects. Since 2017, EPA has invested $424.7 million in WIFIA funding for King County and Seattle Public Utilities water quality projects.

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $96 Million WIFIA Loan to King County, Washington to Improve Water Quality in Puget Sound

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  Nationally, 43 WIFIA loans are helping finance more than $17.1 billion in water infrastructure projects. EPA WIFIA investment in Oregon water quality projects since 2018: $1.25 billion

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $81 Million WIFIA Loan to Beaverton, Oregon to Improve Water Supply

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  Action prompts resumption of recycling “mountains” of expended small arms brass cartridges

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Anchorage military base for hazardous waste violations

  • Release Date: January 19, 2021

• EPA reports overall 12 percent decline in industrial toxic releases for the Pacific Northwest, Idaho and Alaska

  EPA News Release: EPA reports overall 12 percent decline in industrial toxic releases for the Pacific Northwest, Idaho and Alaska

  • Release Date: January 12, 2021

• EPA settles federal stormwater violations with North Idaho builder and developer in Coeur d’Alene

  EPA News Release: EPA settles federal stormwater violations with North Idaho builder and developer in Coeur d’Alene

  • Release Date: January 7, 2021

• Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  EPA: study delivers important data supporting federal, state and tribal salmon saving efforts

  EPA News Release: Newly released EPA plan will aid salmon survival in the Columbia River

  • Release Date: January 7, 2021