President Donald Trump recently signed the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act into law, which codifies the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Planning approach and includes provisions ensuring the use of green infrastructure to reduce stormwater flows.
The Act also establishes an office of Municipal Ombudsman in the EPA that provides municipalities with technical assistance to comply with the Clean Water Act.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) said in a statement that every American deserves to know that our nation’s waters are not impaired with contaminants.
“This bipartisan bill — now signed into
