One could argue, we suppose, that there’s a method to the bureaucratic madness of requiring municipal stormwater permit holders to reduce contaminants in 11 Mesa County washes that drain into the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has released a public notice of intent to withdraw the water quality improvement plan, or total maximum daily load (TMDL), created for the Cedar ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The droplets that drip from Cedar Rapids’ taps first belonged to a segment of the Cedar River historically impaired by nitrogen, although the city’s finished drinking water has always ...

The 1972 Federal Clean Water Act contains a series of requirements for state environmental agencies to protect and restore the quality and health of U.S. waters with the goal of achieving fishable and ...

The newest draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement lacks meaningful pollution reduction targets and allows states to evade legal accountability, according to concerned environmental advocates ...

The woefully inadequate clean up plan fails to address factory farm manure’s central role in polluting western Lake Erie The groups will join the City of Toledo, Lucas County, and Environmental Law ...

A federal judge approved FWW intervention in a lawsuit challenging an inadequate cleanup plan for Lake Erie while denying industry groups’ attempt to do the same. A federal judge approved FWW ...