Congress and the President agreed late last week to end the five-week partial federal government shutdown and re-open under a three-week continuing resolution (CR) that will temporarily fund the government, including EPA, until February 15.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied, on January 17, the environmental groups’ request for rehearing en banc of the Tennessee Clean Water Network v. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) case.

Registration is now open for the National Water Policy Fly-in—convening April 3 – 4 in Washington, DC—the highlight event of Water Week 2019, which runs March 31 – April 6.

Now that the Federal Government shutdown has ended, EPA is moving forward with two timely webinars. EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center is hosting a webinar on Thursday, January 31, 2019 on Leading-Edge Stormwater Financing: Improving Return on Stormwater Investments with Crediting and Pay-For-Performance Approaches. Expert panelists including Chad Praul, Erik Michelsen, Dave Smith, and Mo Minkara will discuss stormwater crediting and how communities can get more for their stormwater dollar.

The Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) Utility Management Committee, through its Delivery Sub-Committee, is conducting a survey to help support utilities as they develop and implement Capital Improvement Programs (CIP).

NACWA provided an important national advocacy perspective during the Government Affairs Committee meeting at the Annual Conference of the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA), which convened on January 28, in Boston, MA.

Conceived jointly by the Narragansett Bay Commission’s Pretreatment and Public Affairs departments and brought to life by animator Rafael Cuello, NBC’s education program, MR. CAN vs The Grease Beasts and its eponymous protagonist, aim to educate the public about proper household grease disposal. In the 2017-2018 school year, MR. CAN was integrated into the curriculum of the award-winning environmental education program, The NBC Watershed Explorers, which reaches economically-disadvantaged students in the state...