Tag: Water Quality Trading Policy

EPA Updates Water Quality Trading Policy

By William C. Schillaci Sep 30, 2019 Special Topics in Environmental Management

Updated: Sep 30, 2019

In February 2019, the EPA’s assistant administrator for water issued a memo updating the Agency’s water quality trading policy “to promote market-based mechanisms.” The memo includes six principles intended to clarify aspects of the federal water quality trading program, provide tools and incentives to states and local governments to implement trading programs, and promote increased […]

EPA Revisits Water Quality Trading Policy

By William C. Schillaci Feb 20, 2019 Special Topics in Environmental Management

Updated: Feb 20, 2019

For the first time since it issued its Water Quality Trading Policy (Policy) in 2003, the EPA appears to be taking consequential steps to encourage broader use of a practice that seems highly attractive at first glance but that has been constrained because of how the Policy was written and how stakeholders have interpreted it.