The plants need flexibility to meet rising electricity demand, the EPA says. Environmental groups argue that undermines Clean Water Act protections for rivers and drinking water sources.

A global review of more than 6,000 records shows that water pollution now affects nearly half of the world’s waters.

The EPA wants to give Duke Energy and others more time to cut emissions that pollute ground and surface waters with heavy ...

A Maryland program that lets oyster farmers capitalize off the environmental benefits of the bivalves had few takers.

Ocean pollution is quietly draining energy from seabirds’ cells, as mercury and forever chemicals disrupt mitochondria even ...

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows that it is reshaping the chemistry and biology of water itself, creating ...

Minnesota is very proud of its water. Of all of our state nicknames, we are most famous in the United States for being the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” That name is even a bit of a misnomer, as we are ...

The air is polluted, the water is drying out and the land collapsing. Many Iranian farmers have been forced to give up their ...

The violation was issued for discharges of soil and vegetation to two gulches, as well as conducting earth-disturbing ...

Ravinder Kumar wades through ankle-deep sludge every day to leave his home in Sharma Enclave in northwest Delhi – yet inside the brick tenement, he does not have a drop to drink.