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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation purchased water from two irrigation districts and sent it to the drought-stricken Klamath Basin, Ore., the winter home of hundreds of bald eagles.

U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman moved forward on a decision to clean up PCB pollution from the upper Hudson River.

Pollution-related beach closings and advisories soared last year, according to the National Resource Defense Council's eleventh annual beach report.

The Senate recently voted 67 to 33 to support a compromise White House plan for new oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

The California Department of Health Services recently issued a report that presents an overview of the results of public drinking water supply monitoring from 1984 through 2000.

The Senate has approved a spending bill for fiscal year 2002 containing millions of dollars for key New Mexico water and wastewater projects.

A 250-ton mechanical mole punched through the earth's surface recently, leaving in its wake a large-diameter tunnel, 8 miles long, to serve as a critical water line for Southern California.

Illinois Gov. George Ryan recently signed a bill that will ban the gasoline additive MTBE from Illinois beginning in 2004.

The EPA recently finalized its $111-million plan for containing and remediating contaminated ground water beneath the western side of the Aerojet Superfund site outside of Folsom, Calif.

The Senate recently voted to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put new arsenic regulations into effect immediately.