In the wake of devastating floods that left at least eight dead and hundreds displaced across Southeast Texas in June, the ...

A proposal to install historic interpretive signs at a museum and park combination near the west end of Upper Canyon Road turned controversial Thursday, with residents attending a public meeting ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Monday to ensure safe drinking water standards in Illinois.

To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT engineers are tapping into an unconventional source: the air. They developed a new atmospheric water harvester and showed that it ...

The EWG said the PFAS contamination crisis is much larger than just two chemicals, and the current EPA plan to reverse the four MCLs is counter to an anti-backsliding provision in the Safe Drinking ...

A bill heading to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk could ensure safe drinking water standards in Illinois.

On Monday, the EPA lifted its emergency Safe Drinking Water Act emergency order for Flint, saying that all requirements had been completed.

Environmental groups decried plans from the EPA to rescind and 'reconsider' drinking water limits for four PFAS, compounds linked to cancer.

The EPA is rolling back drinking water limits for 4 PFAS. Thousands more remain unregulated. Experts say it’s past time to regulate "forever chemicals" as a class.

The emergency order had been in place since 2016. Flint now has to comply with normal lead-level standards set under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The EPA has lifted its emergency order for Flint's water system, marking compliance with lead standards after years of efforts to address the water crisis.

There’s a catch: an “anti-backsliding” provision in the Safe Drinking Water Act says that any new standard for drinking water safety can’t be less protective than the old standard.