WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2024, (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched a new, no-cost technical assistance effort focused on reducing exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) – To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements measure. As a practical matter, this means proactive replacement of lead service lines nationwide within the next 10 years. […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, January 6, 2024 (ENS) – South Africa’s limited protected-area estate is increasingly coming under threat from mining. This is facilitated by an enabling regulatory environment that permits mining and related activities within certain protected areas. […]
LANSING, Michigan, October 7, 2023 (ENS) – A coalition of more than 60 Tribal Nations from across the U.S. Midwest and Canada, led by the Bay Mills Indian Community, has […]
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 4, 2023 (ENS) – Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs said Monday that the Arizona State Land Commission is ending leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm […]
HOLYOKE, Massachusetts, March 23, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a $27 million agreement with the City […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2023 (ENS) – The today proposed the first national drinking water standard for six harmful “forever chemicals” in the latest action under President Joe Biden’s plan to combat PFAS pollution and EPA Administrator Michael Regan’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 18, 2022 (ENS) – Fifty years ago today the Clean Water Act of 1972 became law, requiring America to protect and restore the crucial waterways that must sustain ecosystems, communities, and the economy. Now, a new law is providing the funding to accomplish those goals. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 8, 2022 (ENS) – The underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the hills above the Pearl Harbor Naval Station on Oahu will be de-fueled and permanently closed, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Monday. The facility holds more than 100 million gallons of fuel in support of U.S. military operations in the Pacific, […]
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 2, 2022 (ENS) – A federal civil trial related to the Flint drinking water crisis got underway in Ann Arbor on Monday, February 28. Four children […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, December 9, 2021 (ENS) – Hawaii’s entire Congressional delegation is calling on Governor David Ige to request that President Joe Biden declare an emergency and direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in and assist with a water contamination crisis on Oahu. […]
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wednesday released a drinking water supply plan for the 14 communities […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon, August 4, 2021 (ENS) – More than four million people in Lebanon, including a million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing their access to safe water. Amid a rapidly escalating economic crisis, with shortages of funding, fuel, chlorine and spare parts, […]
TZUR HADASSAH, Israel, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – BlueGreen Water Technologies, Ltd., a global watertech company that provides innovative solutions to toxic algae blooms, has been named the Global Water Awards 2021 Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year by the publisher Global Water Intelligence. […]
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – “Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable […]
NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2021 (ENS) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent is the salt water of the oceans; just three percent is freshwater. Of that, only 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or stored too far beneath the surface to be retrieved. Much of the accessible freshwater has become polluted. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 19, 2021 (ENS) – A series of executive orders expected from President Joe Biden on his first day in office, January 20, include many that affect the environment, particularly the climate. Among his actions on Day One, Biden intends to sign an order to rescind the construction permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline expansion granted in 2019 by President Donald Trump. […]
NEW YORK, New York, December 17, 2020 (ENS) – Community water systems that fail to comply with the federal arsenic standard are most likely to occur in the Southwest, serving Hispanic communities, rural populations of around 1,000, and those who rely on groundwater, finds a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. […]
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