Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Clean Water Act was meant to keep pollution out of U.S. waters. David McNew/Getty Images It’s expensive to pollute the water ...

IDEM Commissioner Clint Woods spoke at a recent hearing about the Clean Air Act at the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The head of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management said ...

A package of bills designed to reduce Colorado’s summertime smog problem through an overhaul of state air pollution regulations is at the center of one of the most contentious lobbyist battles at the ...

Most of the water that eventually drains into our nation’s largest rivers passes through a stream bed that is no longer protected by federal water pollution laws, a new study by University of ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday to reduce oil and gas pollution — the Democrat’s latest move in an ongoing battle against the fossil fuel industry and its impacts on the environment ...

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Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan has filed a lawsuit against a Channelview industrial tank and container cleaning business demanding that the business stop the pollution and noxious odors that flow ...

Houston is the so-called energy capital of the world, and our oil and gas refineries fuel part of the city's economy. EPA data shows three of those refineries are in trouble with federal law and in ...