In an effort to preserve safe drinking water supplies for the region, a two-year moratorium on new oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes has been upheld.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has created a real-time gas and water quality monitoring system that may help in the effort to protect the nation's water supply.
After encountering Democratic opposition, former Ohio official Donald Schregardus has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for one of the government's top environmental jobs.
The EPA has started working on a new environmental standard for the construction industry that could dictate erosion and sediment controls that contractors must include in storm water prevention programs for all job sites of more than 1 acre.
The Senate recently rejected an energy amendment that would have opened a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and natural gas exploration.