NACWA President Kishia Powell has established a new standing Environmental Justice Committee that will be co-chaired by Andrew Lee, Interim General Manager/CEO at Seattle Public Utilities, and Sharise Horne, Director of Community Benefits & Partnerships at Louisville & Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District.

The U.S. Treasury – the federal department implementing the COVID-19 Relief for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program that was signed into law as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – published its final rule for the program on January 6.

NACWA led a water sector coalition letter this week to U.S. EPA urging that as the Agency moves forward in awarding Water Workforce Infrastructure Development Grants, utilities are given direct consideration as a potential recipient regardless of how they are locally structured.

In early December 2021, U.S. EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published a proposed rulemaking for a "Revised Definition of Waters of the United States."

NACWA, along with various other partners, joined the California Association of Sanitation Agencies in a response to the Sierra Club’s Sludge in the Garden: Toxic PFAS in Home Fertilizers Made from Sewage Sludge.