EPA proposes a three-year extension for a deadline to close large unlined waste pits at coal-fired power plants. ● EPA announces $6.5 billion in water infrastructure financing while also reallocating ...

Overview: Weeks before an anticipated final permitting decision regarding the Line 5 pipeline tunnel project, federal ...

Learn how Catalonia's large-scale hog farming leads to nitrate pollution and its consequences for the environment and public health.

Explore the Michigan AI data center controversy with DTE Energy's rushed plans and regulatory concerns from Attorney General Nessel.

Elevation, temperature, burn severity, vegetation type, and the amount of incoming solar radiation are among the drivers explaining when snowpack disappears after a wildfire. Wildfires had the biggest ...

Fort McMurray, at the confluence of the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers, is the center of Alberta’s oil industry. Photo from Syncrude Canada via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license ...

Fort McMurray, at the confluence of the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers, is the center of Alberta’s oil industry. Photo from Syncrude Canada via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license Roughly 141,000 groundwater ...

Irrigation brought fat harvests to the plains. But the water is disappearing. Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems ...

For more than a century, the U.S. Geological Survey has honed the science of water monitoring. The U.S. Geological Survey is the federal government’s premiere Earth science agency and the world’s gold ...