A Senate panel will convene Wednesday to hear from a cybersecurity expert and two water utilities about threats facing water infrastructure. The Environment and Public Works Committee hearing will seek to identify strategies to make the water sector more resilient against cyberattacks, which have become more common in recent years. The meeting could be an opportunity for bipartisan consensus, as lawmakers generally agree on the need to protect water and wastewater infrastructure against cyberattacks. The issue was a priority under the Biden administration and remains so under the Trump administration, which last year established an EPA water office division that focuses on cyberthreats. 

Other EPA water news:

• The Guardian (U.K.): How Trump’s EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water – and worsen global heating
• ABC10 (Albany, N.Y.): Senate Democrats blast Zeldin’s EPA over proposal to roll back federal water protections