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EPA Announces 100th WIFIA Loan, Investing $115 Million to Improve Resilience to Extreme Weather in Santa Clara County, California Feb 23, 2023
WASHINGTON (Feb. 23, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loans totaling $115 million to Santa Clara Valley Water District […]
EPA Proposes Rule To Protect Farmworkers And Pesticide Handlers From Exposures Feb 17, 2023
LENEXA, KAN. – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that would improve and modernize the pesticide Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ) requirements under the 2015 Agricultural […]
EPA Wants to Hear Your Thoughts on the Proposed RFS Levels Jan 4, 2023
The proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) levels for 2023-2025 were published in the Federal Register Dec. 30, with a 10-day comment period on the proposed marks. While EPA has announced […]
WOTUS Update, “EPA Revises Clean-Water Protections” Jan 2, 2023
Washington Post writer Scott Dance reported in Saturday’s paper that, “The Biden administration on Friday imposed a rule expanding the definition of waterways that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has authority to regulate, a […]
EPA and Army Finalize Rule Establishing Definition of WOTUS and Restoring Fundamental Water Protections Dec 30, 2022
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a final rule establishing a durable definition of “waters of the […]
Why Did EPA Use Old Data on Renewable Diesel Ahead of RFS Announcement? Dec 6, 2022
Renewable diesel capacity topped 2 billion gallons per year as of August, according to the latest data released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). But EPA used a lower […]
Renewable Fuel’s Big Week: EPA’s RFS Proposal And Year-Round E15 Legislation Dec 1, 2022
EPA, by court order, released renewable fuel blending proposals on Thursday for 2023, 2024 and 2025, as well as information about eRINS for electric vehicles. The proposed volume requirements come […]
Supreme Court Returns to “Waters of the U.S.” Definition – A Congressional Perspective Oct 14, 2022
On Monday, October 3, 2022, the Supreme Court began its new term by hearing oral arguments over the Clean Water Act’s troubled definition of navigable waters in the case, Sackett v. […]
Atrazine Mitigation Docket – Comment Period Closes Oct. 7 Sep 30, 2022
The United States Environmental Protection Agency regulates and registers pesticide use in the United States. These regulations and restrictions are designed after three-tiered risks assessments to determine the hazard of […]
Peanuts: Petition to Revoke Use of Thimet and Orthene Aug 15, 2022
An NGO group is currently petitioning the US EPA to revoke all food use tolerances for the organophosphate class of chemistry. In peanut this means phorate (Thimet) and acephate (Orthene). […]
