As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look
By Brittany Peterson and Sam Metz
The Associated Press
Around the U.S., cities increasingly are warming to an idea that once induced gags: Sterilize wastewater from toilets, sinks and factories, and eventually pipe it back into homes ...
The Denver Post WASHINGTON » A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country.
The Biden administration had already begun the lengthy process of ...
CHEMICALS By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Toxic “forever chemicals” likely are used and discharged into water at 501 sites in Colorado and at least 29,900 across the United States, according to a new analysis by an environmental advocacy nonprofit.
The Environmental Working Group unveiled th...
By Henry Fountain
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BELLVUE » Wrangling a 25-footlong tube of straw up a steep hillside studded with charred pine trees, three volunteer workers placed it in a shallow trench that had been dug along the slope.
Locked in place with wooden stakes, the sausage-like t...
The lopsided vote was a reminder that bipartisan cooperation on public works projects is possible, but lawmakers in both parties said the spirit of compromise could be fleeting.The legislation approved on Thursday would authorize funding to clean up the nation’s water systems.
Erin Kirkland for The...
By Anita Snow
The Associated Press
PHOENIX » The Air Force says it will be distributing bottled water to thousands of residents and business owners near its base in suburban Phoenix until at least April, marking the latest case of chemicals from military firefighting efforts contam...
By Wayne Parry The Associated Press
New Jersey is upping its efforts to force chemical companies to pay for decades of contamination of waterways by substances including so-called “forever chemicals,” used to stain-proof clothing and produce nonstick cookware, that have become ubiquitous in everyda...
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By Lisa Friedman
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WASHINGTON» The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to overhaul the way communities test their water for lead, a policy change that will be pitched before Election Day as a major e...
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PFAS have been used in fast-food wrappers and in foam to fight fuel fires at airports. The harmful chemicals have been found in waterways and people in Colorado. Now the state is making it a priority to measure the levels of them and contain them.&...
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Some of the most astonishing creatures on Earth hide deep in rivers and lakes: giant catfish weighing more than 600 pounds, stingrays the length of Volkswagen Beetles, 6-foot-long trout that can swallow a ...
The New York Times, WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers who said Obama-era rules had shackled them with onerous...
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By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Scientists testing rainwater around metro Denver and high in the Front Range mountains found microscopic bits of colored plastic in more than 90% of their samples — adding to growing evidence that plastics have contaminated the planet far more deeply ...
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CHEMICALS IN WATER
Costs slow reform
Pentagon tells House committee that addressing toxic compounds would cost $2 billion for DOD
By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of...
What is clean water worth, well its life to people and essential for animals and plants alike, yet our government
has removed protections rolling back Obama policy that protected more than half the nation's streams from pollution. What is the deal here, how badly do we need to use our streams...
As part of President Trump's executive order to review "job-killing regulations," the Environmental Protection Agency last month asked for the public's input on what to streamline or cut. It held a series of open-mic meetings and set up a website that has received more than 28,000 comments, many of ...
Last month, state water officials eased conservation mandates in response to slightly above-average winter rain and snow in much of California, leading many to speculate that the state’s long-running drought has tapered off.
If only.
The El Niño winter that forecasters said could drench the state ...
Students at nearly half the public school buildings in Newark, New Jersey, have been drinking bottled water for the last month, ever since public officials disclosed that the water from drinking fountains and faucets contained high levels of lead. Just last week, the school district released a ...
The events in the past few years in Michigan, culminating in a public health disaster, have finally turned a public spotlight on what has been happening in my home state.
Perhaps it’s where we are in history that these events have been not only uncovered, but broadcast electronically...
A California company is trying to crowdfund $10m to part-fund the building of the US' largest solar desalination project.
California-based WaterFX announced that it would be financing a third of the project using Californian Direct Public Offering (DPO) shares in an attempt to create the largest so...
