Debate over how to address PFAS continues to roil Capitol Hill, while time runs out to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Dave Ross, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Water, testified last week at a hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Water Resources Subcommittee.

NACWA joined with a coalition of other municipal government organizations on a letter last week to EPA asking about the Agency’s progress in implementing the recent landmark integrated planning legislation, which was signed into law earlier this year.

NACWA partnered with the Water Environment Federation (WEF) to jointly host the annual Utility Leaders Morning at WEFTEC2019 on September 24, bring together clean water utility leaders from across the country.

As anticipated, the Maui County Council in Hawaii voted 5-4 last week to accept a settlement agreement from Earthjustice, the lead environmental litigant in the groundwater case currently pending before the US Supreme Court.

NACWA and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) hosted a September 17 webinar, Understanding Resilience, from Concept to Implementation Strategy, which focused on resilience planning for water sector utilities.

As part of NACWA’s upcoming 50th Anniversary in 2020, the Association is putting together a comprehensive report that details all of the remarkable progress the public clean water sector has made over the last 50 years – including all the amazing contributions clean water utilities have made environmentally, socially, and economically to their communities and to the nation.

NACWA attended the Maine Water Environment Association’s (MEWEA) annual convention and first-time PFAS Summit last week in Northport, Maine.

US EPA is poised to initiate its multi-phase study of nutrient removal at publicly owned treatment works (POTWs), starting with a survey to be distributed to every POTW in the country in mid-October.