EPA Scrambles To Scale Up In Bid To Deliver Billions In Infrastructure Funds

Top EPA officials are touting their efforts to quickly deliver the approximately $60 billion in water and other environmental funding contained in the just-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill to communities, pointing to months-long planning and efforts to scale up existing water funding programs to handle the new money. “This is truly a momentous time for EPA,” and more importantly for the communities that will receive the money, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe told reporters Nov. 9. “The EPA team is hard...