From the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV-SALTS) program As 2024 ends, the CV-SALTS program continues to make...
The researchers hope their new method can be scaled up for use in the real world. By Christina van Waasbergen,...
Wastewater from the refinery in Carson contained more than 300 times the permitted concentration of oil and grease, prosecutors claim. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service Texas oil company Phillips 66 faces federal charges of illegally dumping hundreds of thousands...
UC Davis experts are studying where small bits of synthetic polymers, or microplastics, are winding up — and what risks...
By Jacob Margolis, LAist This article was originally published by LAist on 10/30/2024. Over the past decade, about 67 million...
By Leslie Hart, College of Charleston and Miranda Dziobak, College of Charleston Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. Tiny...
For nearly 50 years, the agrochemical conglomerate was the sole producer of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in the United States....
By Gabriel Lade, Macalester College About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source....
Repeated pollution violations result in $2.38 million in mitigation payments From the San Francisco Baykeeper: Valero oil refinery and Amports, a shipping company operating at the Port of Benicia, reached an agreement with San Francisco Baykeeper over allegations that the...
WaterPACT Project to quantify and reduce plastic waste in US rivers By Anna Nixon, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Rivers...
By the EPA: To some people, tire pollution might draw up an image of a blown-out or discarded tire on...
By Joseph Winters, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic litter into small,...
The communications giant said it had agreed in 2021 to remove the cables, but paused that process to have further...
Press release from the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance: Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California. September 18, 2024 – California Sportfishing Protection...
Emerging research is unraveling the complex ways wildfires affect lakes, streams and the ocean. By Kiley Price, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment....