E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump ...

Jan 24, 2020 by

The Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems, according to interviews with local officials, water utilities and their lobbyists.

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Big Oil wants to dump more was...

Jan 22, 2020 by

For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm.

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Our Cherished Rivers Are Under...

Dec 30, 2019 by

Permanent protections for free-flowing rivers need to be a centerpiece of every country’s national climate action plan. Chile can lead the way.

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RIVER OF TRASH

Oct 28, 2019 by

How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central American Communities Uninhabitable

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World’s rivers ‘aw...

May 27, 2019 by

Largest global study finds the drugs in two-thirds of test sites in 72 countries

Natasha Gilbert

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QUARTER OF ENGLAND’S RIV...

Jun 24, 2017 by

[Translate] Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water...

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WHEN RIVERS HOLD LEGAL RIGHTS

Apr 24, 2017 by

Winding its way through dense forest laced with hidden waterfalls…

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HOUSE REPUBLICANS JUST VOTED T...

Feb 2, 2017 by

[Translate] Politics By John Harper  OCCUPYDEMOCRATS.COM America’s streams and rivers have come a long way over the past 50 years....

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TOXIC POLLUTION IS STILL SEEPI...

Mar 29, 2016 by

[Translate] by Alejandro Davila Fragoso CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: AP Photo/Jessica Tefft James Connolly, then executive director of...

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MEAT IS MURDERING AMERICAN RIV...

Feb 17, 2016 by

[Translate] TAKE PART DAILY Government data shows that food processing plants are the biggest toxic polluters of waterways in the...

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ENERGY COMPANY WANTS TO LEGALL...

Jan 12, 2016 by

[Translate] Climate by Alejandro Davila Fragoso CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Alejandro Davila Fragoso The Possum Point Power Station will...

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Dangerous Algae Blooms Threate...

Aug 24, 2015 by

[Translate] Environment The nation’s water systems are increasingly at risk of nutrient pollution. By Alexandra Cousteau /...

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SWIMMING POOLS GO OFFSHORE

Jul 14, 2015 by

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green Before the industrial boom that transformed waterfront cities into dirty manufacturing hubs in...

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