Back when this blog was just in diapers, we got a lot of attention for calling out a proposal for a new federal law on bedbugs. “No issue is too small for your Congress to handle,” I wrote. The public reacted.

Well, the bill didn’t pass, but the feds are on the bedbug case all the same. Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency had a big meeting on bedbugs.

“Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit Tuesday,” the AP reported. I don’t know why the EPA has to fix a problem for all these businesses, but that’s just me.

We have yet to see a bedbug bill re-introduced in the current Congress, but if one is, I guarantee you’ll read about it here on the unofficial Bedbug Blog.