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Stories tagged "water pollution"

July 21, 2019

4 Million Gallons Of Sewage Spill Into Puget Sound

Authorities in King County (Seattle), Washington are investigating why two large sewage treatment plants failed late last week, causing the release of approximately 4 million gallons of untreated sewage into Puget Sound and forcing the closure of the Sound for...

April 16, 2019

Industry pushes back on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights

We wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, an initiative that requires the Toledo City Charter be amended to ensure the Lake Erie watershed has legal rights to “exist and flourish,” and provides a right for citizens to sue private actors that...

January 6, 2019

NYT Exposé: Health Risks on the Rise Due to Regulatory Rollbacks

The New York Times published a major investigation over the holidays explaining the real-life impacts of the Trump Administration’s environmental regulation rollbacks and reversals by telling the stories of agricultural workers in California sickened by looser...