EPA Announces Proposed Decision to Regulate PFOA and PFOS in Drinking Water On February 20, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took another important step in implementing the Agency’s PFAS Action Plan by proposing regulatory determinations for perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in drinking water. Today’s preliminary determinations mark a key milestone […]
READ MORE »Study funded in part by PA DEP finds no evidence fracking waste harming Pennsylvania streams A new federal study failed to find evidence that oil and gas production in northern Pennsylvania has contaminated the commonwealth’s forest rivers and streams, providing a timely counterweight to the vows to ban fracking being made by some Democratic presidential […]
READ MORE »AWWA Proposed Comments on LCR AWWA today submitted its comments on the proposed changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and Copper Rule. We are grateful to all the Sections who have developed their own comments and helped the Association refine its comments. The Sections and utilities can still submit comments to the […]
READ MORE »Pennsylvania State Clean Diesel Grant Program; Availability of Grants In reviewing the online version of this week’s Pennsylvania Bulletin, we noticed the item(s) below that we thought may be of interest to you. http://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pabull?file=/secure/pabulletin/data/vol50/50-5/159.html NOTICES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Pennsylvania State Clean Diesel Grant Program; Availability of Grants [50 Pa.B. 739] [Saturday, February 1, 2020] […]
READ MORE »FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2020 View Online Gov. Wolf Announces Billion-Dollar Plan to Fix Toxic Schools, Address Lead Across Pennsylvania Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today presented a series of proposed 2020-21 budget items totaling more than $1.1 billion to support reducing the risks to Pennsylvanians of lead and asbestos, and remediating existing […]
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