Senate Republicans Work To Advance House-Passed EPA Cyanotoxins Bill

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Senate Republicans are pushing to quickly pass a bipartisan bill that would require EPA to quickly develop a strategy for managing the risks of cyanotoxins in drinking water, hoping to gain enough Democratic support to approve the legislation through unanimous consent. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) Chief Counsel Susan Bodine urged members of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AM WA) at the group's annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C., March 24 to ask Senate Democrats to "hotline" the bill, or agree to approve the legislation, which passed the House in February, by unanimous consent. "What that means is that every [Senate Republican] office has been emailed saying, 'any objections?'," Bodine told AMWA members. "It has not been hotlined on the Democratic side, so if you are doing your Hill visits, you may want to ask."