"The plant must operate safely and cannot be allowed to threaten our drinking water." Engineers race to find solution as ...

It’s a type of plan that environmentalists, scientists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says can be a ...

Clean Water Act permits for sewage treatment plants, coal power plants, chemical facilities and other sources of water pollution expire every five years.

Fecal contamination, indicated by the presence of E. coli bacteria, is the leading cause of beach closures in the U.S., said Wenjing Ren, a postdoctoral fellow in Michigan State University’s ...

The county is asking FPL to update its cleanup plan for its Turkey Point facility.

But the first large-scale study of post-wildfire water quality has found that pollution created by such a blaze can threaten ...

Millions of Americans are still breathing in unhealthy air, despite long-term progress toward cleaning up many sources of pollution, according to the 2025 State of the Air report.

Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Sacramento are among big water systems that have indicated military bases as a likely source of water pollution.

“The Clean Water Act is very good at reducing pollution from point sources, but for non-point sources, like row crop agriculture, the Clean Water Act has proven not to be a sufficient tool.

The source of turbidity in the South Fork of the St. Lucie River in the Halpatiokee Regional Park in Stuart remains a mystery.

The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1972, was designed to restore and maintain the integrity of the nation’s waters by preventing point source pollution.

Water has a different or unique isotopic “fingerprint”, or “isotopic signature”, depending on where it comes from. Scientists analyze isotopes to track the movement and pollution sources of water ...