Dozens of Texas water systems exceed new federal PFAS limits ~enviro pollution.water Article 1536 words, published Apr 16 2024 12 votes
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1321 words 17 votes
Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water ~enviro water.drinking pollution.water Article 1181 words 26 votes
Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers ~enviro pollution.water Article 719 words 47 votes
Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan ~enviro pollution.water Article 550 words 29 votes
Companies knew the dangers of PFAS 'forever chemicals'—and kept them secret ~enviro pollution.water Article published Jun 1 2023 58 votes
Scientists have found a ‘sleeping giant’ of environmental problems: Earth is getting saltier ~enviro pollution.water pollution.ground Article 942 words, published Oct 31 2023 35 votes
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How a Japanese-run wastewater treatment plant in Mexico shamelessly polluted until the site was shut down ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 1771 words 7 votes
The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America ~enviro pollution.water Article 962 words 11 votes
Fukushima contaminated water set to be released into the ocean ~enviro pollution.water Article 889 words, published Mar 17 2020 13 votes
Judge rules in favor of Oklahoma against big chicken producers in poultry-pollution lawsuit ~enviro pollution.water Article 1141 words, published Jan 19 2023 17 votes
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris ~enviro plastics pollution.water Article 6 votes
Chemical companies’ PFAS payouts are huge – but the problem is even bigger ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1043 words 11 votes
Paris olympics swimming events to be held in cleaned up river Seine, public swimming to become legal ~sports Article 13 votes
How “Big Ag” pollutes America’s water, and makes money doing it ~enviro pollution.water Article 1303 words 13 votes
Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 828 words 49 votes
Patagonia helps Samsung redesign washing machines to help reduce microfiber pollution ~enviro pollution.water plastics.micro Article 46 votes
Are cures for some of the world’s deadliest diseases hiding in our sewers? ~health medicine Article 2304 words, published Dec 16 2022 7 votes
Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems ~enviro water.melt pollution.water Article 408 words 6 votes
Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution ~enviro pollution.water water.storm Article 2122 words, published Aug 2 2022 11 votes
Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river ~enviro pollution.water Article 481 words 8 votes
Nurdles: The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of ~enviro pollution.water plastics.micro Article 4691 words, published May 6 2022 10 votes
Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you've never heard of ~enviro pollution.water Video 11:54, published Apr 15 2022 5 votes
International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish ~enviro pollution.water Article 336 words 9 votes
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities ~enviro pollution.water Article 1018 words 5 votes
Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores ~enviro pollution.water Article published May 27 2021 5 votes
Collapse possible at Manatee County (FL) wastewater reservoir ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 1773 words 12 votes
Hackers try to contaminate Florida town's water supply through computer breach ~tech Article 361 words 15 votes
Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water ~enviro pollution.water water.drinking Article 1383 words 17 votes
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis ~enviro pollution.water Article 837 words, published Jan 14 2021 29 votes
How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground ~enviro pollution.water Article 5481 words 12 votes
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims ~enviro pollution.water Article 508 words 9 votes
Greta Thunberg scolds Danes for dumping wastewater – thirty-five billion liters of unfiltered sewer water have been pumped into the Oresund Strait since 2014 ~enviro pollution.water water.waste Article 226 words 10 votes
Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate ~enviro climate change plastics.micro pollution.water Article 741 words 6 votes
A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing? ~finance Article 7271 words 5 votes
Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away ~enviro pollution.water Article 317 words 8 votes
Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste ~enviro plastics pollution.water Article 386 words 4 votes
The spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than previously believed, new research has found ~enviro pollution.water Article 975 words 9 votes
Welcome to Hawaii's 'plastic beach', one of the world's dirtiest places ~enviro plastics pollution.water Article 1608 words 7 votes
New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse ~enviro pollution.water Article 3962 words 11 votes
For the first time in decades, EPA is overhauling how communities must test for lead in water ~enviro water.drinking pollution.water Article 1238 words 3 votes
Global shipping companies have spent millions rigging vessels with “cheat devices” that circumvent new environmental legislation by dumping pollution into the sea instead of the air ~enviro pollution.water Article 966 words 16 votes
A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland ~enviro pollution.water Article 1640 words 11 votes
Newark, NJ: Inside America's latest lead water crisis ~enviro water.drinking pollution.water Article 1285 words 6 votes
Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics ~enviro plastics.micro pollution.water Article 657 words 9 votes