EPA released a proposed rule May 19 that it says will improve the transparency of guidance documents issued by the Agency.

Nearly 1,000 pretreatment professionals participated in NACWA’s Pretreatment Virtual Event, May 14-16, featuring two webinars and a meeting of the Association’s Pretreatment & Pollution Prevention Committee.

The Water Asset Management Conference went virtual this year, and on May 14 held a special panel session on PFAS.

The U.S. Supreme Court in the case of County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund recently held that discharges originating from a point source which are either directly discharged into surface waters regulated by the Clean Water Act (CWA), or are the “functional equivalent” of such direct discharges, are subject to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements. The decision lists several factors relevant to determining whether discharges indirectly reaching regulated “navigable waters” through groundwater or other diffuse media require CWA permits, including time and distance traveled.

Congress continues to debate the contours of its next phase of COVID-19 relief, facing growing pressure to return to Washington, D.C. but with strong differences both across and within parties over the appropriate next steps in addressing the pandemic.

One of Congress’s priorities for 2020, prior to the pandemic, was to pass the biennial Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).