By Linda Runbeck and Don Parmeter The federal government would be granted authority, for the first time ever, over every backyard pond, wetland, ditch, culvert, and pipe – literally all wet ...
The Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, requires the EPA to regulate pollution discharges into U.S. waters. But the agency illegally exempted ballast water discharges from any regulation for 36 years.
It’s a major potential pivot for the half-century-old Clean Water Act, a law prized by environmentalists and grassroots ...
New report outlines human impact of unregulated factory farm water pollution on public health, recreation, and water bills ...
Last week, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the cities of Cambridge and Somerville introduced several alternative project concepts to eliminate Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) ...