From the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Protecting Lake Tahoe’s iconic water quality, a joint California-Nevada effort, prevented a record quantity of fine-grained sediment and other pollutants from reaching the lake’s dazzling blue waters in 2025, according to an...
UCR researchers develop catalyst to destroy perchlorate pollutant linked to thyroid disorders By David Danelski, UC Riverside For decades, water utilities have relied on giant tanks filled with ion-exchange resin beads to remove perchlorate, a harmful industrial pollutant, from drinking...
From the San Francisco Estuary Institute: San Francisco’s rain gardens—the unassuming patches of greenery and mulch designed to soak up rainwater alongside urban roadways—may improve the environment in more ways than realized. A new SFEI-led study shows that rain gardens...
Press release from the Department of Toxic Substances Control: DTSC’s Safer Consumer Products Program adopted a regulation adding microplastics to the Candidate Chemicals List, an important step toward reducing Californians’ exposure to these persistent and highly mobile particles. Following this...
Order marks major milestone in CV-SALTS Nitrate Control Program Press release from the Central Valley Regional Water Board: The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board yesterday approved the Modesto Management Zone Order, advancing implementation of the Central Valley Salinity...
