President Trump's EPA administrator aims to roll back environmental protections in an effort to reduce the agency's spending.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency once again will revisit a controversial rule to define streams and wetlands ...

The plaintiff in this case—one of the most environmentally ... under the Clean Water Act is to issue permits for facilities that routinely discharge pollutants into American waterways.

Clean water is essential for life, but most people in the developed world don't think much about the water they use for drinking, food preparation, and sanitation. In developing nations ...

One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced ...