NACWA met with key Congressional staff last week regarding pending legislation on PFAS to further educate them on potential unintended consequences of the bill on public clean water utilities.

A federal district court in Washington, DC issued a decision last week in Anacostia Riverkeeper, et al. v. EPA, et al. addressing critical Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and permitting issues.

In comments submitted August 15, NACWA asked EPA to consider exposure pathways from pesticides used indoors in its revised Endangered Species Act (ESA) biological evaluation method for pesticides.

Oregon recently became the latest state to pass pharmaceutical take-back legislation with SB 212 Solid Waste: Pharmaceutical and Sharps Waste Stewardship, which was signed into law by Governor Kate Brown.

NACWA attended an Innovative Financing Strategies for Reducing Nutrients Workshop last week co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

NACWA has been informed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) may be pushing back on the use of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in federal wet weather consent decrees currently being negotiated.

EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a final memorandum last week ending a resolution process with EPA’s Office of Water over a November 2018 OIG report criticizing EPA’s biosolids program.

EPA sent an August 6 letter to NACWA, the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA), and two California utilities denying requested changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program that would help utilities to better manage food waste through anaerobic digesters.

NACWA member utilities played an active role at last week’s Transformative Issues Symposium on Workforce, jointly hosted by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA).