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EPA Administrator marks one-year anniversary of Recovery Act in Ohio, acknowledges RCAP

Posted Fri, 2010/02/26 - 4:40pm by RCAP

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson joined Ohio First Lady Frances Strickland and Ohio officials at a press conference Feb. 18 in Columbus to mark the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
 
Jackson announced that the recovery act had saved or created 79,000 jobs in Ohio and would provide 4.5 million Ohio working families with a tax cut. Ohio is also among the leaders nationally in the number of recovery act-funded water pollution control and safe drinking water projects.

EPA invites applications for environmental community grants

Posted Tue, 2010/01/26 - 1:26pm by RCAP

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making $2 million available in 2010 to reduce pollution at the local community level through the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program. CARE is a community-based program that works with county and local governments, tribes, nonprofit organizations and universities to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources, including those found in water. Since 2005, the grants have reached 68 communities in 34 states and territories.

Small drinking water system case studies on system partnerships for achieving sustainability

Posted Tue, 2010/01/26 - 10:26am by RCAP

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a compilation of case studies in a publication titled Gaining Operational and Managerial Efficiencies Through Water System Partnerships to highlight various approaches that small drinking water systems have taken to improve their technical and financial capacity by partnering with other water systems. Many small public water systems are challenged with limited resources, lack of trained operators, and complex regulations.