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EPA Administrator Zeldin Signs MOU With Mexico to Solve the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis, July 28, 2025

July 28, 2025 · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 0:01:27

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What happened

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Mexico to address the decades-long Tijuana River sewage crisis, meeting with Secretary of the Environment and National Resources of Mexico Alicia Bárcena Ibarra at the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s description of the July 28, 2025, video. In his remarks, Zeldin said, as he stated it, that his tour began in San Diego at the Mexican consulate, that he saw the environmental degradation in the Tijuana River valley, heard about closed beaches, and met Navy special warfare personnel whose training had been affected by the situation.

Zeldin said, as he stated it, that during the tour he was certain the United States and Mexico could quickly develop and accomplish a 100 percent permanent solution, and he announced, as he stated it, the details of an urgent, long-awaited, and final 100 percent solution to address the sewage crisis once and for all, standing before the people of Mexico and the United States, as he described the announcement.

Why it matters

The MOU is the administration’s formal instrument on one of the longest-running cross-border environmental disputes — sewage flows that, as Zeldin stated them, closed beaches and interfered with Navy training — and its promised permanent solution is a dated commitment to track.

Scoreboard watch

Zeldin’s announcement of a 100 percent permanent solution to the Tijuana River sewage crisis, as stated on July 28, 2025, is a dated, checkable commitment flagged for the scoreboard editor. No verdict is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Trump Administration Secures Massive Environmental and National Security Victory for USA”, 2025-07-28 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-07-28). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.