Wastewater Regulations and Legislation

1. Sioux City Wastewater Plant Supervisor Caught Masking E. Coli Samples, Will Plead Guilty
   1/16/2019

   Following federal charges that he manipulated water sample test results to mask plant discharges, the ex-supervisor of a wastewater treatment plant in Sioux City, IA, plans to plead guilty.

2. Furloughed U.S. EPA Employees Fear Municipal, Environmental Water Pollution During Shutdown
   1/15/2019

   Entering its fourth week and now the longest in the country’s history, the partial government shutdown is affecting a wide range of federal employees and agencies. Naturally, water and wastewater treatment operations are no exception.

3. Investing In Wastewater Drives Energy Efficiency
   2/2/2018

   In his State of the Union address on January 30th 2018, President Trump called for a $1.5 Trillion investment in infrastructure. If you’ve been around the wastewater industry for a while, you’ll know that infrastructure spending is often directed to roads and bridges first, transit needs second, and drinking water a distant third. But our industry has a pressing need for investment too.

4. Miami-Dade May Join Fight Against State Water Quality Standards
   2/1/2018

   Water quality standards introduced by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) came under renewed scrutiny late last month as Miami-Dade’s government operations committee joined a lawsuit to challenge them.

5. Groups Lobby To Preserve Supreme Court Ruling On WOTUS
   1/26/2018

   After the Supreme Court cleared the way for an Obama-era environmental regulation to go into effect, Congress may become a hot spot for a major fight over water policy.

6. Pruitt Describes EPA’s 2018 Agenda: Scaling Back Regulations And Staff
   1/24/2018

   In laying out the U.S. EPA’s agenda for 2018, Administrator Scott Pruitt indicated that the agency would focus on scaling back Obama-era clean water regulations while ramping up the fight against lead contamination in public drinking water.

7. Massachusetts Raw Sewage Challenges Run Deep
   1/19/2018

   Massachusetts faces a deep problem with raw sewage.

8. EPA Overstates Its Work On Superfund Cleanup
   1/16/2018

   Though the current U.S. EPA administration is boasting about its action to clean up the nation’s Superfund sites, it appears that it has not done as much as implied.

9. Ohio EPA Awarded Record $936 Million In 2017 Water/Wastewater Loans
   1/10/2018

   With cuts being made to the budget of the federal EPA, individual states are having to step up and take matters of protecting drinking and source water into their own hands. Last year, none were more forceful with this change than Ohio.

10. With EPA Cuts, Critics Fear Loss Of Water Oversight
    1/9/2018

    As the U.S. EPA is reshaped under President Trump, some are concerned over what has been reported as an “exodus” of employees from the agency.