EPA Proposal To Coordinate Federal Water, Waste Funding Faces Hurdles

EPA officials face hurdles achieving their goal for multiple federal agencies to coordinate funding for water infrastructure and brownfields redevelopment in order to improve projects' access to funds they would otherwise be unable to obtain, sources say, because EPA is limited in advancing the goal unless Congress or other agencies also act. “To EPA's credit, EPA has been a long-time and vigorous proponent of increased involvement in environmental redevelopment by its federal agency partners. But for whatever reason, those federal...