On June 16, the Rodale Institute will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new Water Purification Eco-Center located on its research farm in Kutztown, Penn. The center, supported in part through a $695,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will serve as a model on-site wastewater treatment system.  The system incorporates an experimental wetland-based treatment and reuse facility that captures rainwater and reuses it several times before returning it to the soil as clean water.

The Hill newspaper on June 3 ran a feature article on U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. It begins:

Tom Vilsack thought he knew a lot about the Agriculture Department from his days as a farm-state governor, but he found out he had a lot to learn when he took the helm as secretary in 2009.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a public stakeholder meeting on June 16, 2011, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern daylight time) in Washington, D.C., to discuss the agency’s Regulatory Determinations for the third Contaminant Candidate List, or CCL3. The agency is currently in the preliminary process of making decisions about whether to regulate any of the unregulated contaminants on the third Contaminant Candidate List as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.