Items Tagged with 'water quality'

Efforts like the San Fernando Valley cleanup are about more than addressing legacy contamination—they’re about maintaining access to safe, reliable drinking water for millions of people.

The new approach aims to return to what the EPA calls a “back-to-basics” model centered on compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun soil removal work at the East Troy Contaminated Aquifer Superfund site

Massachusetts is one of the states where the federal government directly administers stormwater permitting under the Clean Water Act. 

EPA says inspections and updated maintenance schedules are needed to strengthen safeguards for 3.8 million customers

The settlement resolves violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has responded to a wave of online claims suggesting the agency recently approved pesticides containing “forever chemicals,” a term commonly used to describe a group of persistent and potentially toxic substances known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

As states begin drawing from this new wave of funding, the EPA says it will track progress closely to ensure transparency and effectiveness in how the money is used.

Texas voters will decide Tuesday whether the state should continue spending $1 billion a year to secure the state’s water supply. Part of that investment will be spent to find new water supply.

The partnership aims to speed up testing and improve water treatment decisions for utilities nationwide