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Algal bloom confirmed in Hennepin, Marseilles areas
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order directing a review of a rule designed to protect the country`s waterways
We only need to look to the Mediterranean Sea, and, more recently, the Great Lakes, for dramatic illustrations of what lies in store if we don’t act now.
Watersheds are natural landscape boundaries that define an area that drains into a stream, river, lake, reservoir or ocean.
In order to solicit input on a proposed regulatory change, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued a supplemental notice seeking comment for the revised “waters of the...
A final draft of the state’s plan to increase flows in key tributaries of the Bay-Delta will mean more water for fish but less for urban areas like the San Francisco Bay Area.
In March 2017, coal mogul Bob Murray came to the Washington headquarters of the US Department of Energy for a meeting with Secretary Rick Perry. Also at the table was Andrew Wheeler, who this month became acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put a two-year suspension on the Clean Water Rule, an Obama-era policy defining which waters can be protected against pollution and destruction under federal law.
EPA head Scott Pruitt proposed another way to weaken U.S. environmental regulations protecting the nation`s waterways from pollution. Pruitt seeks to restrict the agency`s ability to revoke permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowing projects to dispose of dredged or fill material in rivers, streams and other waterways.
Multiple states and conservation groups are legally challenging the Trump administration`s decision to delay the Obama-era Clean Water Rule. Last week, the EPA put a two-year suspension on the rule, which protects large water bodies like lakes and rivers but also listed smaller waterways such as streams, ponds and wetlands for federal protection.
Research into Lake Erie`s toxic algae shows no clear decrease in the pollutants feeding the persistent blooms during the past five years, according to an
Decades ago, some people thought polluted rivers and streams were the price we had to pay for progress. That’s not a world we have to live in anymore. Nor is it the future our children deserve. Yet President Trump and his allies in Congress are pushing for changes that would turn back the clock to when environmental protection was an afterthought — not the foundation for a better quality of life and a brighter future.
Ocean plastic has gained notoriety, but we`re starting to realize that microplastics pollute our freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems too.
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