The thirst of California’s 40 million residents and the ravages of climate change has the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – the state’s most important water source and the West Coast’s largest estuary – on the brink of ecological disaster. The fix, according to Gov. Jerry Brown? A plan to build two water tunnels under the delta, at a cost of $16.7 billion.
Read moreNestle’s marketing and sales of Poland Spring water has been “a colossal fraud perpetrated against American consumers,” 11 people claim in a federal class action.
Read moreThe University of Rhode Island is using an $8 million grant to lead the charge in understanding how fluorinated pollutants found in products like nonstick cookware and firefighting foam contaminate drinking water and affect people.
Read moreThe U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday released its annual checkup of the Earth, highlighting numerous records including hottest year, highest sea level, and lowest sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Read moreTen states on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify a recent Ninth Circuit ruling that they say essentially wiped out state groundwater rights in favor of federal oversight.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit has ordered a new trial against a Chilean industrial chemical company that the Southern California city of Pomona says contaminated the its water system with fertilizer chemicals.
Read moreOn my way out, I talked to the lone park ranger at the entrance to the Salton Sea. I asked him if the sea was dying. “If nothing is done, it will die off,” he said. “But s-l-o-w,” he said, stretching out the last word.
Read moreGroundwater pumped through a proposed water pipeline from central Nevada to Las Vegas could have permanent and devastating effects on water resources, opponents told a federal judge Monday.
Read moreResidents of Flint, Michigan, can pursue civil claims against the city and state municipal officers in a water-contamination suit because the Safe Drinking Water Act does not pre-empt civil rights claims, the Sixth Circuit ruled on Friday.
Read more(CN) – Increased rainfall from a changing climate is likely to negatively impact water quality and will result in more
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The California Department of Water Resources has filed a complaint for validation of $11 billion in bonds for Gov. Jerry Brown’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta tunnel project, California Water Fix, which cleared its final environmental hurdle on Friday.
Read moreA decades-old effort to restore water and salmon to California’s second largest river is on the chopping block under a proposal by House Republicans to speed up dam projects and increase diversions to farmers.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved new criteria for levels of mercury in California fish.
Read moreSued for interfering in dredging of Boston Harbor, the power company NStar reached a settlement with the U.S. government on Wednesday to install a new cable.
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Environmentalists who want Nestle to stop pumping tens of millions of gallons from a California creek, virtually for free, to sell it as bottled water, have sued the federal government for records on the multinational corporation.
Read moreGrass fires blazed, cows bathed in cool, scarce pools, and corn farmers worried about fall yields in South Dakota this week, where temperatures soared over 100 degrees – compounding a drought that’s covered most of the state for over a month.
Read moreNine conservation groups brought a federal complaint Thursday over the flood of raw sewage befouling borough shorelines thanks to New York City’s outdated sewer systems.
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A powerful assemblage of environmentalists are targeting federal fisheries officials days after regulators gave California the green light on a $15.7-billion makeover of the largest estuary on the West Coast.
Read moreThe Michigan Department of Environmental Quality filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Flint over city officials’ refusal to sign off on a long-term contract with a Detroit-based water authority.
Read moreThe Trump administration is poised to revoke an Obama-era rule which gave the EPA broad powers to regulate pollution levels in waterways and natural wetlands throughout the United States.
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