Hirst decision protects salmon and water rights for farmers, tribes

7 years ago

Water rights across Washington is an extremely complex area of law, and it affects all of us. So what is…

EPA awards tribes $2+ million for water quality protection & restoration

7 years ago

Seattle – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1,039,686 to support 32 tribes with their nonpoint source pollution programs,…

Hydraulic fracturing negatively impacts infant health

7 years ago

Map: Locations of births and fractured wells in Pennsylvania. Credit: Currie, Greenstone, Meckel, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1603021 From North Dakota…

EPA drops rule requiring mining companies’ funding to clean their pollution

7 years ago

Photo: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said modern mining practices and state and federal rules already in place…

The lesser-known threat from sea-level rise? Saltwater intrusion into Florida’s freshwater wells.

7 years ago

When it comes to sea-level rise, Miami is usually deemed ground zero. Time-lapse maps depict the creeping rise of blue,…

Your laundry is more toxic than you think

7 years ago

Conservation photographer Ben Von Wong is drawing attention to a serious pollution threat with these 'Toxic Laundry' photos. (Photo: Ben…

DEP using water insects to measure waterway health

7 years ago

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is making public aquatic life sampling results from across the state. The data is…

A rare victory for Iowa water quality

7 years ago

Following a public outcry, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has abandoned an effort to weaken the state’s E. coli…

Simple River-Cleaning Tactics That Big Farms Ignore

7 years ago

Iowa is the largest corn producer in the U.S.—and the second largest producer of nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River…

Don’t be silent about the EPA Clean Water rollback

7 years ago

What happens when you can't trust water from the tap? photo: Shutterstock In the United States, we have developed public…