Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- State Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, will be partnering with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on to promote reviving trees in the area, on Thursday, August 24, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Thorn Creek Woods Nature Preserve, located at 247 Monee[Read More…]
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Public Demands End to Trump EPA Plan to Delay Implementation of Crucial Clean Water Protections
EPA holds public hearing on proposal to postpone compliance on wastewater regulations for coal-fired powerplants Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 31, 2017. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a public hearing on a proposal to postpone indefinitely critical public health protections for cleaning up toxic water pollution from power plants.[Read More…]
Park Forest’s 2016 Water Quality Report Now Available
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2017. The Village of Park Forest is proud of the drinking water it provides. Our mission is to provide residents with high-quality, safe drinking water that meets or surpasses every Federal and State standard. In 2016, the Village of Park Forest distributed more than 480 million[Read More…]
Endangered Species Mural at Standing Rock Supports Tribal Push to Protect Water, Sacred Land From Pipeline
Dakota skipper mural and photo by Roger Peet. Dakota Skipper Mural Is Tenth Installment in National Endangered Species Mural Project CANNON BALL, N.D.—(ENEWSPF)–November 29, 2016. In support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s campaign to protect their water and sacred grounds from the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Center for Biological[Read More…]
Pesticide Restrictions in Wisconsin Fail to Protect Groundwater Adequately
WISCONSIN–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2016. A Wisconsin family is speaking out against groundwater contamination after their son fell ill two years ago, prompting them to test their well water. The test results found the water contaminated with fertilizers and pesticides, most notably the weed killer atrazine, which has been banned in their[Read More…]
Federal Court Denies Request to Turn Off Nestlé Spigot Despite Decades of Water-taking in San Bernardino National Forest
Riverside, CA-(ENEWSPF)- A federal court today declared Nestlé’s reliance on a long-expired permit valid, ruling in favor of the U.S. Forest Service for allowing the Swiss conglomerate to continue its use of a four-mile pipeline that siphons water from the San Bernardino National Forest despite the Forest Service’s lack of action[Read More…]
Water Quality Board Urged to Provide More Water to Save Rare Sucker Fish
SAN BERNARDINO, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Three conservation groups filed a request with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board last week to amend the permit of the Rapid Infiltration and Extraction (RIX) facility to require adequate water flows in the Santa Ana River for the federally protected Santa Ana sucker fish. Since[Read More…]
Unsafe Levels of Toxic Chemicals Found in Drinking Water for Six Million Americans
Drinking water samples near industrial sites, military fire training areas, wastewater treatment plants have highest levels of fluorinated compounds Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2016. Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked with cancer and other health problems—polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)—exceed federally recommended safety levels in[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Trump’s ‘Vision’ Includes Dirty Air, Polluted Water, and Endangered Communities
DETROIT, MI –(ENEWSPF)–August 9, 2016. Yesterday, Donald Trump delivered a speech in which he promised to provide an “economic vision” for the country. Instead, among numerous other things, he attacked existing and pending climate, clean air and clean water safeguards, pushed for the increased use of fossil fuels, and[Read More…]
Yuengling to Upgrade Environmental Measures to Settle Clean Water Act Violations at Two Pennsylvania Breweries
PENNSYLVANIA–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc., has settled Clean Water Act violations involving its two large-scale breweries near Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In a consent decree filed today in federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the[Read More…]
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