By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis As much as 70% of California was covered by wildfire smoke during parts of 2020...
By: Sarah Blank, Iowa State University and Timothy Ellis, Iowa State University When you turn on your faucet to get...
From Stanford News Severe wildfires can drive chemical changes in soil that affect ecosystem recovery and risks to human health. A new study finds broader surveillance and modeling of these changes could inform strategies for protecting lives, property, and natural...
Method deals with pollution from fire suppressant foams By David Danelski, UC Riverside As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cracks...
The city discharges billions of gallons of untreated sewage water onto its beaches and into San Francisco Bay and its...
From the US EPA: The Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Attorney General of California, on behalf of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, filed a civil complaint in...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Water systems will need to comply with new rules on contaminants at the state and...
California’s Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Permit Vacated The Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group and the California Sportfishing Protection...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: On April 23, 2024, the Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board issued a Denial Without Prejudice of Water Quality Certification for the Kanaka Hydroelectric Project License Surrender. The denial without...
Disputes of fact as to whether contaminated stormwater actually flowed into a Sacramento River tributary precluded summary judgment, a federal...
Kyle Doudrick, University of Notre Dame, The Conversation Chemists invented PFAS in the 1930s to make life easier: Nonstick pans,...
The nationwide cost to treat or replace contaminated drinking water is estimated at $1.5 billion a year. The ubiquitous chemicals, linked to cancer and other diseases, build up in people and the environment. By Rachel Becker and John Osborn D’Agostino,...
Assemblymember Isaac Bryan says possible changes in federal administrations could lead to rollbacks in state protections if environmental rights aren’t...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 3858, the State Water...
From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance In an April 1, 2024 letter to three water boards, fishing and conservation groups and a Tribe have urged regulators to control recently measured excess levels of selenium in Mud Slough. Mud Slough drains...