California’s Central Valley yields billions of dollars’ worth of fruits and vegetables each year, but its aquifers are overused and polluted. With brown, silty streams pouring from their kitchen sinks, thousands of farmworkers and residents have become habitual buyers and users of bottled water.
Read moreA federal court in Washington ruled that the government violated the Clean Water Act when it issued a certain permit relating to commercial shellfish aquaculture activities, because there is insufficient evidence to support the conclusion that it would have minimal adverse impacts on the environment.
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Poor management by the international group that oversees the waters of the Great Lakes led to hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage due to flooding two out of the last three years, New York officials claim in a lawsuit.
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Temperatures in the Mediterranean basin are increasing much faster than the global average, threatening food and water supplies, scientists warned Thursday in a new study.
Read moreSan Luis Obispo Coastkeeper sued the Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District, the U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation in federal court, claiming their operation of Southern California’s Twitchell Dam illegally kills steelhead salmon and blocks their migration.
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A proposed open-pit gold and copper mine approved by the federal government faces considerable legal pushback from Alaskan environmental and fishing groups, claiming the project would taint the watershed for local wildlife, including starving the headwaters that sustain the world’s largest wild salmon run.
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The Little Colorado River cuts across the northeast corner of Arizona, emptying its waters into the much-larger Colorado River after a more than 330-mile journey.
Read moreThe Sierra Club sued NRG Power Midwest in federal court, claiming hot water discharges from its coal-fired power plant “degrade the water quality of the Allegheny River … and impair the water’s suitability for aquatic life.”
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While exploring a giant crater on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected salt-bearing sediments within ancient crater rocks, which suggests a lake was once present there before the planet transitioned to arid climates over billions of years, according to a study released Monday.
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Continuing its fixation with the Golden State, the Trump administration has accused San Francisco of soiling city streets and beaches with raw sewage and a bevy of other Clean Water Act violations.
Read moreA federal class action claims the Coachella Valley Water District, in the California desert, illegally charges its nonagricultural customers more for nonpotable water than it charges agricultural users, including some on the water district’s board.
Read moreTwo days after threatening to pull highway funding from California over “chronic” smog, the Trump administration on Thursday said the Golden State is also falling short of federal water-quality standards, due in part to a “homelessness crisis.”
Read moreJackson, Mississippi, sued the Jackson Zoological Society and its directors, claiming the zoo owes it $6 million for water, and seeking an order prohibiting the zoo, from removing any personal property or animals from the zoo, in Hinds County Court.
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Most Americans think of their drinking water is safe, but a new cumulative assessment of risks from 22 carcinogenic contaminants found in the nation’s water supply found chemical pollutants could be responsible for more than 100,000 cancer cases.
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In 2010, Michael Hickney, a resident of Hoosick Falls, New York, introduced his father to his newborn son; the same day his father had a kidney removed due to cancer. Hickney’s father would die from his illness three years later.
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The Trump administration is expected on Thursday to roll back a major Obama-era policy that brought under federal protection many streams and wetlands across the U.S.
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In the Permian Basin, the nation’s largest and most active oilfield surrounding the cities of Midland and Odessa in West Texas, pump jacks are as common as pickups and the industry’s presence is built into the fabric of daily life.
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Months after Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J., he cleared the way for his former campaign treasurer and law partner Elnardo Webster to wield influence at the nonprofit that supplied water to the city.
Read moreA federal class action claims that, contrary to Whole Foods Market’s claims, its house brand of Starkey bottled water is contaminated with arsenic.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Wednesday declined nine environmental groups’ request to review the EPA’s two-year postponement of compliance dates for waste streams from power plants.
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