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March 15, 2016
This week, EPA Chief, Gina McCarthy, who will testify before the House Oversight committee on Thursday, made a preemptive strike, blasting the state of Michigan as a failed state environment partner in Flint. The WashPo op-ed titled “Michigan evaded the EPA on Flint. We can’t let that happen elsewhere” goes like this. This week, I […]
March 14, 2016
EPA is now accepting applications for the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators. EPA, in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, administers this award to honor, support and encourage educators who incorporate environmental education in their classrooms and teaching methods. The program recognizes outstanding K-12 teachers who bring innovative approaches to environmental […]
March 10, 2016
The U.S. Department of Interior announced this week its decision to tap Jeff Klein to be the Executive Director of the new Natural Resource Investment Center. Martin Doyle, who is on sabbatical from Duke University’s Water Policy Program at the Nicholas Institute, will support Klein and the Interior’s efforts to energize and leverage new investments to improve […]
March 8, 2016
Flint’s other water crisis: Money A municipal cash crunch has long burdened the city’s residents and laid the groundwork for its lead crisis. By ANNIE SNIDER 03/07/16 05:43 PM EST Updated 03/07/16 08:56 PM EST Re-posted from Politico FLINT, Mich. — Even before lead began pouring from the spigots in this hollowed-out former General Motors […]
March 7, 2016
Registration is open at www.waterweek.us for the National Water Policy Forum, Fly-In & Expo (April 11-13, 2016) in Washington D.C. The event is presented by the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the WateReuse Association. This year’s program will feature distinguished speakers, […]
March 6, 2016
Professor Marc Edwards, who brought attention to the Flint water crisis, sheds more light here on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, March 1, 2016. The Professor, an environmental and water resource engineer by training, reserves his harshest criticism for State environmental bureaucrats who, according to Edwards, tried to cover over how bad the situation really was. http://
March 5, 2016
The Failure of Cooperative Federalism in Flint, Michigan By now, most everyone has been following the public health crisis that has unfolded in the community of Flint, Mich. For over a year now, the citizens of Flint have been drinking water with significantly elevated lead levels, raising serious concerns about the impacts of lead exposure […]
March 5, 2016
The recent Fox News GOP had more lowlights than highlights, but one of the latter was a mention of the water crisis in Flint and the need to do a better job of providing clean water, and reinvesting in and maintaining our nation’s water delivery system. Bret Baier, one of the moderators, asked the candidates […]
March 5, 2016
Water is life, and it is also our economy. The water challenges we face here in the U.S. are significant and continue to present mounting risks to public health, environment, and our local economies. To resolve these growing risks, we must innovate to change, and change to innovate. Yet, so many barriers remain […]
March 3, 2016
Fewell’s Focus: Making the Right Decision Reprinted from Water & Wastes Digest By Brent Fewell Wed, 2016-03-02 09:54 Money alone will not solve our nation’s water problems As is true for many, I have been following closely the tragic public health crisis that has unfolded in Flint, Mich., and devastated so many families. The fallout […]