LIABILITY WAIVER DEFEAT LEADS TO MTBE SETTLEMENT

Public water providers across 17 states and the largest oil companies in the U.S. announced a settlement over MTBE contamination of water supplies with the oil companies agreeing to pay $422 million to the water systems.  MORE

NEW BILL WOULD SUPPORT WATER SYSTEM CLIMATE RESEARCH

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced the “Climate Change Drinking Water Adaptation Research Act” (S. 2970) to establish and fund a new research program intended to help drinking water systems prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change.  MORE

SENATE, EPA ACTION PROMISED ON PERCHLORATE REGULATION

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) chided EPA for not moving quickly enough to enact regulations to protect sensitive populations from potentially unsafe levels perchlorate and TCE found in some drinking water supplies.  MORE

HOUSE PANEL APPROVES SEWAGE NOTIFICATION, WATER RESEARCH BILLS

The House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee unanimously approved three bills dealing with public notifications following untreated sewage releases and the impacts of climate change on water resources.  MORE