EPA Floats Guide Urging States To Integrate Climate Concerns Into TMDLs

EPA last month quietly floated guidance urging states to consider the impacts of climate change on water pollution in impaired waterbodies when prioritizing, developing and implementing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) and providing a range of suggestions for how to do so, though it is unclear whether the incoming Trump administration will continue such efforts. The Nov. 12 document , “Climate Change Considerations when Prioritizing, Developing and Implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads,” says allocating allowable pollution levels between point and...