Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed limits to protected waters under a new interpretation of the Clean Water Act ...

Morrow County is experiencing a silent crisis: wells contaminated by nitrates, thirsty data centers, and a population afraid to drink from the tap.

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with ...

Bathing water quality at a beach affected by pollution has been classed as sufficient, in the latest set of Environment ...

Long-polluted waterways near Chicago are part of a system of natural and manmade barriers keeping invasive crustaceans at bay ...

This mixture includes arsenic, lead, mercury, barium, boron, cobalt, manganese – chemicals linked to cancer and heart and ...

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis ...

The EPA is moving to narrow the definitions of protected waterways under the Clean Water Act, opening many waterways to ...

The crisis in our state is more evident than ever, and legislators will make clear whether they care, writes the Register's editorial board.