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EPA shifts to rolling decisions on initial loan applications, looking to speed the approval process.

Story updated on 6/14/2022 with comments from National Association of Clean Water Agencies.

Four Snake River dams produce energy, enable commodity barging and provide reservoirs for irrigation.

As drought-plagued western states watch their water sources literally dry up, California is digging deeper.

The measure was approved with a strong, bipartisan 384-37 vote.

New York City environmental department awards $3M contract to Jacobs for feasibility study as it prepares to close aging prison.

Total includes $3.5B for Indian Health Service sanitation facilities.

French contracting giant's water diversion scheme, one of Alberta's largest ever infrastructure projects, will prevent events such as the 2013 flood that caused more than $5B in damage and displaced 125,000 Calgary residents

A final independent report from a forensic team backed by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials found that rapid, static liquefaction of earthen embankments caused the May 2020 collapse of the Edenville and downstream Sanford Dams in Michigan.