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Compliance clock is ticking: Community water systems have one year to complete a Service Line Inventory
In about 12 months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will expect all public water systems to have completed a Service Line Inventory, which is a complete accounting of the material of every service connection in the public network that delivers drinking water. The main purpose of the regulation (Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, or LCRR) […]
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Adding resilience to roads without reconstruction
In Vermont this summer, torrential rains caused flooding of historic proportions, washing out roads or covering them in feet of mud. And in some coastal areas, sea level rise is making ‘sunny-day’ flooding a twice-monthly occurrence when the moon’s cycles pull tides higher. Often, the hardest hit areas during such extreme weather events are communities’ […]
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City advocacy organizations applaud establishment of White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Every day, an average of 327 people in the United States are shot and 117 are killed, according to the gun violence advocacy organization Brady. Gun violence is an epidemic that has affected every city, county and region in the nation. Municipal and county administrators often find themselves on the frontlines, responding to tragedies and […]
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Boston pilot to support green energy retrofit of smaller, owner-occupied multi-family buildings
With a historic amount of climate-related funding available from the federal government through initiatives like the Inflation Reduction Act, communities across the United States are experimenting with the best ways to drive down carbon emissions. The latest pilot program in Boston, which has notably launched a number of initiatives to reduce building emissions this year, […]
