What would Salt Lake City be without the Great Salt Lake? As far back as people can remember, the Great Salt Lake has been a wonder to drive past, a stopover for 10 million migratory birds as majestic... Read More
The US Forestry Service ordered a private equity firm to stop pumping water from California’s San Bernardino mountains (see Blue News here). As Leana Hosea, founder & journalist with the UK ... Read More
The federal government has backed up California state regulators in ordering the company that bottles Arrowhead water to stop drawing from the San Bernardino Mountains. Though BlueTriton Brands draws ... Read More
Southern California farmers are conserving a lot more Colorado River water, but that’s also causing the Salton Sea to dry up faster. Erin Stone reports for LAist, part of Southern California Public Ra... Read More
In 2023, Alabama settled a civil rights complaint alleging that the state was discriminating against Black residents by not providing adequate sewage treatment in a poor, rural county. A year later, s... Read More
Several unexpected plaintiffs are behind a legal challenge aiming to kill the US Environmental Protection Agency’s groundbreaking new drinking water limits for highly toxic PFAS: the US’s water utilit... Read More
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the final Lead and Copper Rule Improvements rule (LCRI), a long-overdue measure that makes significant changes to the Safe Drinking Water Act rule... Read More
This year, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission held a hearing in Santa Fe to seek public input on regulating wastewater discharge from the oil and gas industry. It ended up dealing a blow ... Read More
The Office of the State Climatologist and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, in coordination with the Kentucky Drought Mitigation Team, are issuing a Level 1 Drought Declaration for the Comm... Read More
