|
|
2007-01-18
|
At a town hall meeting Thursday, a panel of scientists and policy experts highlighted the growing threat to water quality for the Toms River and other coastal waterways in the path of some of the fastest development in the state. |
|
|
2007-01-11
|
The Environmental Management Commission approved the reclassification of the North Fork First Broad River as an Outstanding Resource Water. |
|
|
2006-12-12
|
In a major victory for public health and the environment, Illinois completed the final step in adopting a rule to reduce coal-fired power plant mercury pollution by up to 90 percent by 2009. |
|
|
2006-06-19
|
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a split decision today in two Clean Water Act cases, Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers. |
|
|
2006-05-18
|
In a victory for clean water, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to protect America’s waterways. |
|
|
2006-03-23
|
More than 62 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across the country discharged more pollution into U.S. waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allowed between July 2003 and December 2004, according to "Troubled Waters: An Analysis Of Clean Water Act Compliance", a new report released today by U.S. PIRG. |
|
|
2006-02-28
|
Gov. Granholm, joined by PIRGIM (U.S. PIRG's Michigan chapter) and other members of Michigan’s environmental community, signed a landmark package of water-use bills today, bringing long overdue protections to Michigan’s waters. |
|
|
2005-09-23
|
A new analysis of government data released today by the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG) and the National Environmental Trust (NET) found for the first time that the West’s major river basins are getting warmer, at exactly the time of year water needs to be stored as snow to meet the region’s water needs. |
|
|
2005-05-26
|
As the swimming and boating season begins around the Great Lakes this Memorial Day weekend, a new U.S. PIRG report finds that Great Lakes residents are often not told when hazardous sewage is dumped into local waterways. |
|
|
2005-01-09
|
Over eight billion gallons of sewage was dumped into Lake Erie in 2004. |
|
|
2004-03-30
|
More than 60 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across the country exceeded their Clean Water Act permit limits between January 2002 and June 2003, and are doing so by an average of six times their legal limits, according to data obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request and released in a new report today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). |
|
|
2004-03-30
|
More than 60 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across the country exceeded their Clean Water Act permit limits between January 2002 and June 2003, and are doing so by an average of six times their legal limits, according to data obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request and released in a new report today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). |
