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EPA Administrator outlines new vision for clean, safe drinking water

Posted Tue, 2010/03/23 - 11:09am by RCAP

WASHINGTON (EPA) - In a speech today at the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) annual conference in Washington, D.C., U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced the agency is developing a broad new set of strategies to strengthen public health protection from contaminants in drinking water. The aim is to find solutions that meet the health and economic needs of communities across the country more effectively than the current approach. EPA is also announcing a decision to revise the existing drinking water standards for four contaminants that can cause cancer.

EPA initiates hydraulic fracturing study

Posted Mon, 2010/03/22 - 2:14pm by RCAP

Agency seeks input from Science Advisory Board

 

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.