Environmental Protection Agency

Last August, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed extending the amount of time operators of “certain high-speed vessels”—pilot boats and some smaller vessels—have to comply with the upcoming switch to clean-burning… Read More

Washington, D.C.—Congress overwhelmingly approved an $8.3 billion coronavirus emergency funding bill as talk by some turned to using infrastructure spending to stimulate the nation’s economy and members of the waterways… Read More

Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump announced he will sign a “very large and comprehensive” Phase 1 trade agreement with China on January 15. “The ceremony will take place at the White… Read More

The end of 2019 brought major changes in leadership for two major waterways advocacy organizations. On December 4, The American Waterways Operators announced that Jennifer Carpenter, AWO’s executive vice president… Read More

At a September 12 event in Washington, D.C., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Department of the Army Assistant Secretary for Civil Works R.D. James announced that the… Read More

In July, the Environmental Protection Agency released its fourth report on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) program. Originally authorized in 2005 and reauthorized with unanimous bipartisan support in 2010,… Read More

The recently passed Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate federal standards of performance for marine pollution control devices and best management practices, and… Read More

Washington, D.C.—In an unusual rebuke even in these divisive political times, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House voted to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency on border security that some warn could… Read More

Have you lost track of the debates surrounding what used to be called WOTUS, shorthand for “waters of the U.S.”? That may be because of how the media changed their… Read More