Regulations and Legislation Features, Insights, & Analysis
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Utility Safety Culture: A Hidden Key To Employee Retention
3/20/2017
Sound safety policy does more than keep your workforce free from harm. It keeps them around.
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Let’s Put The 'W' In Infrastructure
3/14/2017
We need to make water infrastructure a clear priority in the new administration’s infrastructure investment plans. Let’s make sure there’s a “W” in any new infrastructure program.
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Under New EPA, Rural Water Association Sees Chance For Change
2/21/2017
With Donald Trump appointee Scott Pruitt helming the U.S. EPA, the National Rural Water Association sees an opportunity to free its members from burdensome regulations and change the perception of the country’s smallest water utilities.
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A Year Of Water In The News
12/22/2016
As the year winds to a close, I am reflecting on the fact that 2016 could be dubbed “The Year of Water”. January started with the disclosure and national outcry related to lead exposure in Flint, MI, and during the year, the U.S. Congress introduced almost 60 different bills dealing with water.
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Obama EPA Takes A Bow, Touts #WaterProgress
12/22/2016
In the years the U.S. EPA has worked under the Obama administration, the agency has been very active. Depending on your perspective, that may be good or bad. While some see new regulations as necessary to protect citizens and the environment (and to drive innovation in the water sector), others argue that recent actions have been overly restrictive and unduly burdensome.
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An Open Letter To President-Elect Trump On Water
12/20/2016
During the long campaign, you ran on a platform of change, and since the election, you have charted a course toward improving our nation’s infrastructure. I urge you to focus some of that change and a significant portion of those infrastructure improvements on the one issue at the center of survival for all Americans, regardless of whom they voted for — water.
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10 Key Changes To Fall Protection Regulations For General Industry
12/15/2016
The Walking-Working Surfaces rule for General Industry (GI) has been a long time coming for regulators. There have been fall protection rules with vague or missing wording in the 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D standard ever since it was adopted in 1971.
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Water Challenges Are Actually Opportunities
12/8/2016
Our nation needs to talk more about the future of water, which I believe is one of the top public health and economic challenges now facing our country. This is a moment of opportunity – to drive smart, equitable, resilient investments to modernize our aging water infrastructure; to invent and build the water technologies of the future; and to protect our precious water resources.
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EPA Is Ready To Launch New Water Finance Program
12/6/2016
There’s a lot of discussion right now about the need to reinvest in America’s infrastructure, and there’s no question that our aging water infrastructure needs to be at the top of the list. EPA’s surveys of communities across the country show that the U.S. needs about $660 billion in investments for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure over the next 20 years.
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Is There Finally Hope For Infrastructure Relief?
11/4/2016
No matter what happens at the polls on Tuesday, both presidential candidates have made public pledges to address the country’s infrastructure problems. That’s extremely good news for both cities and states, because it appears that the next president will champion infrastructure reform. Long overdue infrastructure needs such as water, energy, and road and bridge projects have been postponed as federal funding has steadily declined. That could soon change.