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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 2021 national recycling strategy, hoping it can be used to tackle critical recycling challenges and create a stronger, more resilient and cost-effective municipal solid waste recycling system.

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EPA Partners with Tribes to Deploy Air Sensors in Communities
Air quality is a primary concern for many Pacific Northwest tribal communities, where smoke from wildfires and wood-heating devices can affect human health and is often present year-round.

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EPA Announces Appointment of Daniel Blackman as Regional Administrator for EPA Region 4
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced that President Biden will appoint Daniel Blackman to become EPA’s Regional Administrator for Region 4.

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EPA and Army Take Action to Provide Certainty for the Definition of WOTUS
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a proposed rule to re-establish the pre-2015 definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which had been in place for decades, updated to reflect consideration of Supreme Court decisions.

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Dredging and Capping Work Completed at Grasse River Superfund Site, Massena, NY
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that dredging and capping work is completed at the Grasse River Superfund site (aka Alcoa Aggregation) in Massena, New York.

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EPA adds 32 waters to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent notice that it has added 32 waterways to Minnesota’s 2020 Impaired Waters List, according to a report by the Red Lake Nation News.

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EPA Awards Over $2 Million for Diesel Emissions Reduction Projects in Georgia
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded over $2 Million to projects that reduce diesel emissions from Georgia’s existing fleet of older, dirtier engines and vehicles.

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EPA among agencies recommitting to water quality, 'tackling the climate crisis'
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with several other federal agencies and non-governmental partners, took time recently to reflect on a decade of progress under the Urban Waters Federal Partnership program, while recommitting to restoring urban waterways.
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Leader Rodgers Statement on Biden, Democrats’ Radical Agenda to Transform America
News Release: Washington D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about Speaker Pelosi’s grand socialist agenda.
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E&C Republicans Demand Oversight of Democrats’ Unprecedented, Partisan FCC Funding
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Subcommittee Chairman Michael Doyle (D-PA) urging them to hold a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) oversight hearing to address the unprecedented influx of funding to the commission.

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EPA funding projects for tribes in California, Arizona
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California.

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EPA grants $224 million loan for Los Angeles for water infrastructure
On Oct. 26, at a virtual event with Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel, and other officials, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox announced a $224 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation.

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California tribes awarded $25 million from EPA for environmental improvements
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California to invest in environmental programs and water infrastructure.

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$23 million granted by EPA to improvements to tribal lands in Arizona
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $23 million in funding to 17 tribes in Arizona to invest in environmental protection programs and water infrastructure.

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Final biological evaluations for three herbicides issued by EPA
After consideration of public comments, EPA has finalized its biological evaluations (BEs) for glyphosate, atrazine, and simazine, three herbicides that are used to control a variety of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
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Pallone Praises House Passage of Build Back Better Act
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement praising House passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act...

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E&C Republicans: 'President Biden and the EPA are proposing more regulations that could raise energy prices even more for families'
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed methane standard
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Leader Rodgers Statement on CBO Estimates of E&C Provisions in the Tax and Spending Spree
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s table of Energy and Commerce provisions in the tax and spending spree.

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Families Need Hope – Not a Government That Has Power Over Life and Death
News Release: Ever since her signature socialist price control scheme, H.R. 3, failed with a bipartisan vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s been working to revive it in the tax and spending spree. Despite many rewrites behind closed doors, her price controls will still lead to fewer cures, less innovation, and no hope.

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EPA seeks public comment on additional cleanup for superfund site in Michigan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to hold a virtual public meeting Nov. 30 to address contamination concerns at Adam’s Plating Superfund site in Lansing, Michigan.

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