A New York appeals court threw pipeline plans into a tailspin Tuesday, refusing to let a developer acquire the privately owned land via eminent domain when the state has already held up environmental permits.
Read moreYielding to the governor’s office, California regulators on Wednesday agreed to postpone a restoration proposal that would reduce water for cities and farmers during droughts in hopes of spurring last-minute negotiations among the plan’s critics.
Read moreA controversial reallocation project designed to provide water security for the growing Denver metropolis will continue as planned after the 10th Circuit Monday affirmed that the Army Corps of Engineers’ followed environmental requirements.
Read moreIn an attempt to protect the coral reefs that divers so admire they have dubbed them the underwater Serengeti, the Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscreen.
Read moreTying insect repellants to a decline in salamanders, a study out Wednesday reports that bug sprays are giving a counterintuitive boost to mosquito populations.
Read moreA federal judge agreed with the Gulf Restoration Network that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s reply to questions about pollution in 31 bodies of water in Louisiana was “non-responsive” and must be redone, as, for example, the EPA stated repeatedly “the document speaks for itself” when there was no reference to a document.
Read moreReinstating trademark protection for mineral water produced in Devin, Bulgaria, the European General Court found Thursday that any association tourists might have with the tiny spa town is not enough to cause confusion.
Read morePresident Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a new water infrastructure bill into law, authorizing $3.7 billion for scores of new Army Corps of Engineers projects and an addition $4.4 billion for drinking-water projects.
Read moreDespite the discovery of rust pits in steel pile casings and corrosive bacteria in soil around the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, engineers remain confident the structure can survive a major earthquake for the next 145 years.
Read moreLaunching a new front in his war on red tape, President Donald Trump on Friday ordered federal agencies to speed up environmental reviews and jumpstart major water projects in California and the Pacific Northwest.
Read moreExperts called on Mexico’s government Wednesday to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically endangered vaquita porpoises were spotted in September.
Read moreDutchess County, N.Y., claims in a class action that 3M Co., Chemguard, Tyco Fire Products and others make or sell aqueous film-forming foam containing carcinogens that contaminate the public water supply.
Read moreFrench and Italian maritime authorities have begun cleaning up a fuel spill that has spread 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea after two cargo ships collided north of the island of Corsica.
Read moreToxic red algae blooms in Florida have spread to metropolitan counties on the state’s east coast, triggering large-scale beach closures and fears of a plunge in the tourist economy.
Read moreThe FTC blocked a merger Monday between two large providers of marine water treatment chemicals and related services — the Drew Marine Group and Wilhelmsen Maritime Services dba Resolute Fund II — finding that it would reduce competition.
Read moreE&B Natural Resources Management Corp. claims in a federal complaint that Alameda County arbitrarily and capriciously denied it a permit to continue operating the Livermore Oil Field because it “could” contaminate the aquifer.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit ruled Monday that utilities in Tennessee and Kentucky did not violated the Clean Water Act when contaminents in coal ash ponds at their facilities leached in the local groundwater.
Read moreA 10th Circuit panel on Monday heard arguments on whether the Army Corps of Engineers incorrectly applied Clean Water Act standards only to mitigating environmental damages rather than to the entirety of a project to expand a Colorado reservoir.
Read moreThe city of Hemet brought a federal complaint against Dow Chemical, Shell Oil and Crop Production Service for contaminating groundwater with TCP; and Golden State Water Co. sued the same defendants and J.R. Simplot on similar claims, for its wells in Nipomo and Claremont.
Read moreWith California trudging ahead with a contentious $16.7 billion water project, a cache of environmental and social concerns remain around its plan to replumb the source of drinking water for an estimated 25 million residents.
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