Broad EPA Water Trading Guide Seen Boosting New Programs' Prospects

摘要

EPA's reworked guidance for Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality trading programs is drawing enthusiastic support from the wastewater industry and others that have long pushed for broader adoption of such programs, while environmentalists are reacting more cautiously but still welcoming certain elements of the update. "They took pains to say, 'we meant this to be easier, and we meant this to be done more often.' They covered some really important issues, and in general touched on most of the things that have bedeviled or slowed these projects across the country," says a source with the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), a private group that aims to bolster "creative policies" that support infrastructure development and water quality, among other outcomes.