Water

HUSTONVILLE — About 15 years after the EPA first designated western Lincoln County an "impaired watershed," officials hope they're close to funding the first step of a solution to the severe water quality issues that have plagued the Dix River area....

SOUTH BEND — The quality of drinking water in St. Joseph County is a serious issue, according to Mark Nelson, director of environmental health with the St. Joseph County Health Department. That’s why last year county officials approved a...

Here is our weekly salute to the people, places and organizations that make Northern Michigan a special place to live. My hero A reading tutor at Lincoln Elementary School saved a child's life recently thanks to crisis training provided by the Americorps...

I will always remember the day I woke to the news that more than 2,000 fires were burning in California. I thought I must not have heard correctly. Two thousand fires? How could that be? In the end, the state's brave firefighters, joined by...

How well does the state maintain its waters? We're aware of too much pollution; not enough oversight; lots of finger-pointing and too-few hands that are willing to do the heavy lifting, politically speaking.  But we don't often consider the potentially...

California has failed to spend $455 million in federal safe-drinking-water funds and isn't adequately managing the program that administers the money, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said. "Nearly half a billion dollars that could be...

Three bills by Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez received support in Assembly policy committees, according to a press release from his office. AB 407 passed the Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials on a vote of 6-0.  AB 407 entails...

Big Sugar-backed changes to Florida’s Everglades restoration requirements won initial approval Thursday, despite environmental objections to potentially shielding agriculture from more water pollution cleanup costs. Environmental groups warned...

One day into Florida’s legislative session, environmentalists and Big Sugar are already squaring off over proposed changes to Everglades restoration requirements. Audubon of Florida Wednesday was rallying opposition to measures that the...

Big Sugar is trying to change state law to dodge more Everglades pollution cleanup costs, according to Audubon of Florida. Audubon Wednesday was rallying opposition to measures that the environmental group warns would help Big Sugar avoid paying more of...

At least 12 people with symptoms of illness were reported at Johns Hopkins at Keswick in North Baltimore on Monday, almost a week after nearly two dozen people fell ill from a contaminated water source at the hospital and university system's...

BRAWLEY — The city faces a $1.7 million penalty from the Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board for several violations of effluent limitations at the city’s Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant. The city received an...