SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Voted into law a half-century ago, the Clean Water Act of 1972 is still far from achieving its ambitious goals. The landmark law aimed to make U.S. waters safe for swimming and ...
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move ...
Bronx activists are fuming that a proposal aimed at opening up the notoriously polluted Harlem River to swimming won’t do anything to keep raw sewage from being dumped there. The state Department of ...
Air Force firefighters are transitioning to a new PFAS-free foam to combat fuel fires, eliminating what had been a key source of chemical contamination in water systems near military installations.
An Oregon wood treatment facility polluted a town’s water source for years with a now-banned chemical. Regulators who knew didn’t stop it. After decades trapping crayfish in northwest Oregon, Mike ...
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One of South Dakota’s top lawmakers said Wednesday that it may be time to move beyond financial incentives and consider new regulations on agriculture to address the state’s polluted rivers and lakes.