Protecting America?s waters is top EPA priority for 2010 and beyond
Tuesday, March 09, 2010-- EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued a memorandum to agency employees last month outlining seven key themes that EPA will consider priorities going forward. Protecting the waters of the United States is one of them. -- (full text)
[Water World]

EPA Tests Environmentally Friendly Parking Lots
Friday, March 05, 2010-- In an effort to help reduce pollution runoff from paved parking lots, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is testing a variety of permeable paving materials at its facility in Edison, NJ. -- (full text)
[Water World]

Green Infrastructure Helping Protect Urban Waters
Friday, March 05, 2010-- Communities across the country are exploring the use of green infrastructure to protect the quality of their local rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries from the impact of development and urbanization. -- (full text)
[Water World]

EPAs impact 'long time coming'
Friday, March 05, 2010-- In November 2009, the EPA issued a final rule to reduce water pollution from construction sites, which became effective in February. To be phased in over four years, the regulations seek to improve water quality and reduce the amount of sediment discharged from construction sites by up to 27 million pounds annually. -- (full text)
[SW Iowa News]

Find out about rain gardens at open house
Monday, March 01, 2010-- The city is encouraging the construction of residential rain gardens as part of its agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency on reducing combined-sewer overflows. -- (full text)
[News Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)]

Too much pavement, too little oversight: EPA to tackle stormwater runoff
Monday, February 22, 2010-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel of researchers. -- (full text)
[Environmental Health News]

EPA's Rulemaking Gateway
Monday, February 22, 2010-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new Web site giving the public additional opportunity to participate in the agencys rulemaking process. The online Rulemaking Gateway serves as a portal to EPAs priority rules, providing citizens with earlier and more concise information about agency regulations. -- (full text)
[EPA]

Group seeks to create wetland-mitigation bank
Saturday, February 13, 2010-- Wetland banks must be permitted by the state or water district and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The agencies assign a number of credits that mitigation bankers can sell based on the amount and value of wetlands to be restored. -- (full text)
[Daytona Beach News-Journal]

Developers fined nearly $45,000 for storm water violations
Thursday, February 11, 2010-- The Environmental Protection Agency has settled with seven firms and individuals accused of violating the Clean Water Act at construction sites in northern Idaho. EPA found the violations during routine inspections last fall in the Sandpoint area. The violations resulted in fines ranging from $8,000 - $14,000. -- (full text)
[U.S. EPA.gov (press release)]