When an endangered orca named Tahlequeah lost her calf last summer, the entire pod swam 1,000 miles with the grieving mother as she carried the young whale’s body for 17 days through the Salish Sea.
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A federal judge indicated Thursday he will advance conservation groups’ claims that a proposed 43-mile groundwater pipeline in a Southern California desert was approved abruptly and without proper environmental review by a federal agency.
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A warming climate and bigger corn yields mean Midwestern corn growers who today rely on rainfall to water their crops will need to switch to irrigation by midcentury if current trends continue, possibly setting off a battle royale for dwindling water supplies, new research released Monday suggests.
Read moreMichigan prosecutors have dropped eight criminal cases and relaunched a probe into the Flint water crisis because they say the investigative body appointed by former Governor Rick Snyder’s attorney general kept crucial evidence away from law enforcement officials.
Read moreSenate Republicans lambasted the previous administration’s water regulations as a federal power grab Wednesday in a hearing on the new policy rolled out by President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe harmful effects of DDT are still being felt decades after the pesticide was banned in several countries, according to a new study.
Read moreFearing a rollback of offshore drilling rules will threaten worker safety and coastal waters, nine environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, claiming weaker standards could lead to another catastrophe like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Read moreRunoff from U.S. farms may be causing more than 12,000 cases of cancer per year as Americans drink up nitrate-polluted tap water, according to a new study published Monday in the scientific journal Environmental Research.
Read moreAttorneys for the carpet industry argued before the Alabama Supreme Court Tuesday that two lawsuits alleging Georgia carpet manufacturers allowed contaminants to enter the drinking supply of Alabama cities should not be heard in that state’s courts.
Read moreBy 2050, the ocean will be home to more plastic than fish, and experts told House lawmakers Tuesday that it is not too late to turn the tide.
Read moreMichigan authorities investigating Flint’s water crisis have used search warrants to seize from storage the state-owned mobile devices of former Gov. Rick Snyder and 65 other current or former officials, The Associated Press has learned.
Read moreThe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Friday successfully dodged claims its management of a California dam violates state law and threatens the survival of endangered steelhead trout, but the legal battle is far from over.
Read moreNew Mexico hit Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia with a 261-page lawsuit, claiming they made and sold products containing PCBs though Monsanto knew as early as 1937 that it was polluting the state’s soil and water.
Read moreA federal judge refused to give Oklahoma an injunction against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for invoking the Clean Water Rule to expand federal jurisdiction over certain bodies of water.
Read moreDespite orbiting the sun at an average distance of 3.6 billion miles, Pluto’s subsurface oceans haven’t frozen over, a phenomenon researchers said they’ve solved in a study released Monday.
Read moreNine environmental groups sued Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt for granting rights-of-way across public lands to an Estonian oil company to build a giant oil-shale mine and processing plant, draining more than 100 billion gallons of water from the Green River in Utah’s Uinta Basin.
Read moreFlint city officials still face liability over the city’s contaminated-water crisis after the full Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday not to vacate a panel decision denying immunity from claims brought by a family who drank lead-laced water, but five conservative judges wrote separately to voice their disagreement.
Read moreAn attorney for a Florida man who admitted to falsifying water samples in southeastern Alabama asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to rule that his 30-month sentence for fraud is unreasonable.
Read moreThe San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has “neglected its mission” to protect the bay and surrounding wetlands, the California state auditor reported Tuesday.
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