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Advocacy
NAPA backs EPA air permitting proposal, seeks additional clarity
NAPA wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of a proposal that would give state and local agencies…
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Advocacy
EPA proposes air permitting reforms backed by NAPA
On July 7, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule to streamline federal air permitting requirements for certain new, smaller “minor…
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Advocacy
EPA seeks changes to PFAS drinking water rule
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rolling back some PFAS drinking water standards.
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Advocacy
EPA keeps existing stormwater permit in place
As a result, there are no new federal PFAS stormwater monitoring requirements for asphalt mix plants.
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Environmental, Health & Safety
EPA withdraws proposed hazardous waste definition
On May 8, the EPA withdrew a 2024 proposed rule that would have had made PFAS and other hazardous constituents subject to the agency's…
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Advocacy
EPA adds microplastics to watch list, signaling potential regulation
The federal government is taking a new, coordinated approach to study microplastic contamination.
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Environmental, Health & Safety
EPA eliminating ORD as Congress looks to defund another critical EPA program
On July 18, the EPA announced the elimination of the Office of Research and Development (ORD).
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Engineering
Getting to know asphalt
NAPA 2024 Summer Intern Juliet Piacsek writes about learning to look at asphalt pavement – and civil engineering as a…
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Environmental, Health & Safety
AASHTO reviews impact of chlorinated solvent ban on asphalt binder extractions
At last week’s AASHTO Committee on Materials and Pavements meeting, InfraTest’s Ann Baranov presented information on EPA rulemaking concerning chlorinated…
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Advocacy
Courts continue to push back on EPA ‘policy’, now with Environmental Justice
On Aug. 22, a federal district court permanently blocked EPA from considering disparate environmental harms when enforcing the Civil Rights…