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More than half of the streams in America are contaminated with insecticides that have been linked to bee colony collapse, according to a new study. Researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) found neonicotinoids, which some scientists blame for ...

The debate over hydraulic fracturing’s impact on America’s water supply is a heated one, and the Environmental Protection Agency added fuel to the argument in early June by issuing a long-awaited report that both sides of the issue said supported ...

Hydraulic fracking has the potential to pollute the nation’s streams, aquifers and wells, according to a massive new report from the Environmental Protection Agency that also concluded that even though pollution already has happened, it is not widespread. It is ...

A federal judge has decreed that manure is pollution and a danger to public health in a ruling that could make it easy to sue farmers and others that use natural fertilizer. “This is the first case that would define ...

The residents of a small Ohio town could lose their water supply if a federal lawsuit filed by a fracking company that has made hundreds of millions of dollars succeeds. Gulfport Energy is trying to force Barnesville, Ohio, (population 4,100) ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning a burn that could release millions of tons of toxic chemicals two miles into the air over at least three states – and rural residents are outraged. The agency wants to burn 15 million ...

California state officials knowingly let oil and gas drillers dump 3 billion gallons of wastewater from fracking into underground aquifers that supply both irrigation and drinking water in the state’s San Joaquin Valley – a move that has both sides ...

Ancient Egyptians depended on them when the Nile River couldn’t provide water that was safe enough to drink. The Roman Empire utilized them to supply the intricate plumbing and sewage system for their capital city. And if not for their ...

Property owners’ ability to sue in well water-pollution cases has been severely limited by a new US Supreme Court decision. The ruling in a case called CTS Corp v. Waldburger could make it far harder for victims of water contamination ...

Most of the wood and pellet-burning stoves and furnaces found in American homes would be illegal under new air quality rules proposed this month by the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency is inviting comment on proposed regulations that will require ...