Washington, Feb. 9 -- Representative Hillary Scholten issued the following press release:
U.S. Congresswoman Hillary Scholten (D-MI-03), alongside U.S. Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL-21), introduced the Local Water Protection Act. This bipartisan legislation would reauthorize an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant program that provides funds for states to develop and implement programs that manage nonpoint source water pollution, or pollution from diffuse sources including runoff from farms, managed forests and urban areas.
"In West Michigan, water is truly a way of life," said Rep. Scholten. "I'm proud to lead this commonsense, bipartisan legislation to strengthen our pollution prevention and management programs, which will help ke...