EPA launches new clearinghouse for environmental finance
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched the Clearinghouse for Environmental Finance (Clearinghouse), an online database of land, air, and…
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How Will Water Affordability be Defined for the Next 20 Years?
The EPA has a chance to listen and implement water industry leaders’ recommendations on affordability using new data, methods, metrics…
NACWA: Clean water funding excluded from final WRDA package
Friday evening, Congress released its long-awaited conferenced Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA). Over the past several cycles, this bill…
EPA receives 67 new requests for WIFIA financing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received 67 letters of interest in response to the agency’s 2020 Water Infrastructure…
Senators propose level EPA funding for 2021, no WIFIA cuts
The U.S. EPA’s water infrastructure financing programs would be in line for approximately level funding next year under a plan for FY21…
Resetting the Mission for WIFIA
By John Ryan The WIFIA Loan Program recently announced that it has reset the interest rates on two undrawn loan…
EPA chief announces $225 million WIFIA loan for Hampton Roads Sanitation District
At a recent event in Suffolk, Virginia, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a $225 million Water…
EPA announces new WIFIA loans totaling more than $415 million
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two new Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loans at events in…
EPA announces research funding to control harmful algal blooms
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken another step to address the environmental challenges posed by harmful algal blooms…
COMMENTARY: The Liberal Case for EPA’s New WOTUS Law
By Mike Keegan After withstanding numerous preemptive judicial challenges, the Trump administration’s version of the Waters of the United States…