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PFAS in Focus: Forever-Engineering With Trent Stober, HDR - Reflections on Water Podcast
PFAS Regulatory Update: EPA Issues Updated Drinking Water Health Advisories
Drinking Water on Tap: Money, Morality, and More with Tracy Mehan from the American Water Works Association - Reflections on Water Podcast
2BInformed: The Future of Fluoride in Drinking Water, the New TSCA Fees Rule, and the Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 5
Forever Chemicals: What They are and What is being Done to Minimize Their Impact
On-Demand Webinar | Taking the Plunge: Lessons Learned from Water System Consolidations
On-Demand Webinar | Flood or Drought? A Discussion of the Election’s Potential Legislative Impacts on the Water Sector
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
Addressing PFAS continues to challenge local government, water providers, and wastewater providers, particularly in a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Regulatory initiatives will have costly and widespread impacts on...more
The Association of Clean Water Administrators (“ACWA”) issued an FY 2025 Funding Chart Update (“Update”). The Update is stated to reflect the: …FY 2025 “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025”...more
The Southern Environmental Law Center (“SELC”) on behalf of the Tennessee Wildlife Federation entered into multiple Settlement Agreements (“Agreements”) with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”)...more
The Fall 2024 edition of the publication Arkansas Drinking Water Update (“Update”) summarized Enforcement Orders that were issued for three Arkansas water systems. The Update is published by the Engineering Section of...more
H. 3116 was introduced on January 14th into the South Carolina General Assembly addressing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (collectively, “PFAS”). The Bill would require that the South Carolina Department of...more
Traditional sources of freshwater are dwindling as a result of increased demand, reduced natural replenishment, volatile weather patterns, and extended-duration droughts. Desalination, the industrial-scale removal of salt...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has announced the issuance of a December 17, 2024 report titled: Water Affordability Needs Assessment: Report to Congress (“Report”)....more
On election day this year, Suffolk County residents overwhelmingly approved a ballot proposition that will increase the countywide sales tax to fund a project aimed at making water cleaner and upgrading Suffolk County’s sewer...more
Under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) announced on Oct. 8, 2024, EPA has shifted its focus from addressing lead exceedances in drinking water to preventing lead in...more
On September 6, 2024, EPA announced $7.5 billion in available loan funding through the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA). From that total, $6.5 billion is available through WIFIA loans and $1 billion is...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently announced that it will be taking a hard look at the Texas Railroad Commission’s (“RRC”) enforcement of injection well regulatory practices (or the lack thereof). The...more
On August 6, 2024, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the direct potable reuse (DPR) regulations that were previously adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) on December 19, 2023....more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are at the top of every environmental regulator’s list in 2024 and already this year the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken key steps toward regulating...more
Two days after EPA announced Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for six PFAS in drinking water, 15 California cities and water districts filed a lawsuit seeking injunctive relief and damages, based in part on the requirements...more
On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced its highly anticipated final National Drinking Water Regulation ("NPDWR") for six per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS"), which establishes...more
Like much of the western and southwestern U.S., California has experienced drought conditions on and off for decades. Fortunately, the regulatory landscape is starting to catch up with water treatment technology, paving the...more
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) announced the final National Primary Drinking Water Regulation establishing the first national legally enforceable drinking water standards (Maximum Contaminant Levels...more
On March 28, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Final Rule: Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Facility Response Plans (Final Rule) requiring facilities that handle hazardous substances to create...more
In addition to amending the Wetlands Protection Regulations to add performance standards for the Land Subject to Coastal Storm Flowage wetland resource area, MassDEP wants to update the Massachusetts Stormwater Management...more
On December 15, 2023, the Permanent Representatives Committee gave its final approval to the compromise text of the revised Industrial Emissions Directive (“IED”). As of now, the political compromise is provisional, pending...more
On November 30, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI). With this proposal, EPA aims to simplify and expand upon the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule...more
If there is one truism in California water, it is that there is not enough of it. In part to try to help address that issue, on December 19, 2023, the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) adopted...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally withdrawn cybersecurity rules it promulgated in March requiring that states report cybersecurity threats to their public water systems (PWS). The reversal comes in...more
Despite efforts to stem increasing cyber threats to water systems around the nation, on October 13, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew cybersecurity mandates put in place by the Biden...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released a document titled: 7th Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (September 2023) (“Report”) See EPA 810R23001....more