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The Rundown The Senate confirms Rep. Deb Haaland as the Interior secretary. The Army Corps suspends a Clean Water Act permit for a proposed Minnesota mine. A State Department official urges China to be transparent about its use of water from the Mekong River. The EPA seeks more data on PFAS in industrial wastewater discharges. […]
The Rundown The pandemic relief package includes more aid to local and tribal governments and for water bill payments. The EPA delays new rules for lead in drinking water so that the agency can review them. The Senate confirms Michael Regan as EPA administrator. An EPA webinar will feature new technology to provide drinking water […]
Michigan’s Indigenous communities hold long-standing legal rights to protect lands and waters.
National governments are not on track to meet ambitious, globally recognized goals to provide universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2030.
As climate change complicates Lake Erie’s algae problem, scientists say farmers must do far more to reduce phosphorus runoff. But will enough farmers change their ways without a government mandate?
This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you. Circle of Blue · What’s Up With Water – 3.8.21 In the United States, winter storms that swept through the South in mid-February crippled the […]
The Rundown A House bill to move the country to 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 acknowledges water-energy links. A USDA report finds that farm acreage using cover crops increased by 50 percent. The GAO reviews EPA regulatory actions regarding PFAS. The EPA will review a proposed mine in Minnesota for its effects on the […]
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Lawyers for former Michigan Rick Snyder want all Flint residents to be disqualified from being jurors on the case. The government in Bihar, India says it will provide irrigation water to all agricultural land in the state. A Michigan judge orders Detroit to pay $1 million to the city of Highland Park […]
Navajo Generating Station shut down in 2019 and is now being dismantled. The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse.
The Rundown The House passes a pandemic relief package that includes $500 million for household water bill assistance. The EPA decides to regulate two PFAS chemicals in drinking water and proposes to monitor drinking water for 29 more. A House Democrat says he wants to increase authorized spending for two main federal water infrastructure loan […]
With warming temperatures, fluctuating water levels and a series of extreme storms, Lake Superior is undergoing dramatic alterations amid climate change.
YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN Monsoon floods force mass evacuations in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. Despite heavy snowfall in Utah, water scarcity could continue this summer. A recent study finds a significant portion of Mumbai’s coastline is at high risk of flooding. The United States will resume some aid to Ethiopia that was cut off last fall. Experts […]
