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Results for keyword: Clean Water Act

Water-quality standards unfairly burden rural communities

The plight of a small water and sewer association in rural Mora, N.M -- caught in a tangle of federal and state clean water rules it can’t afford to meet -- echoes experienced by other rural communities around the West.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Dec 21, 2011
A citizen activist forces New Mexico's dairies to clean up their act

When a giant dairy proposed building near Jerry Nivens' beloved New Mexico home, the chain-smoking Texas hermit became an activist who organized other locals to fight the industry.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Dec 05, 2011
A river again?

The EPA extends Clean Water Act protection to L.A.'s urban watershed.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Jul 28, 2010
Non-navigable River Blues

An obscure legal ruling muddied U.S. water-protection standards, leaving Western intermittent streams and rivers unprotected.

by Tony Davis, Feb 02, 2009
Midnight cowboying

As Bush prepares to leave office, his "midnight regulations" are mostly gifts to big business.

by Jodi Peterson, Dec 16, 2008
Leaky border

Efforts to stop wastewater pollution from Tijuana have bogged down in a nasty mess.

by Rob Davis, Sep 12, 2008
Relicensing dams hangs on warm water, endangered fish

Idaho Power Company needs permits from Idaho, Oregon and the federal government

by Ken Olsen, Jan 30, 2008
Excremental gains?

Kern County, Calif., is trying to prevent Los Angeles sludge from entering the county, where it is used to fertilize farmland, and the resulting stink is raising all kinds of questions about how we handle human waste

by Matt Jenkins, Dec 25, 2006
Good Samaritan bill could clean up old mines

A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines

by Sarah Gilman, May 29, 2006
The Latest Bounce

Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake; Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may become a copper mine

by Jodi Peterson, May 01, 2006