The Future of Desalination Lies With Small-Scale Household Systems By Julia Sklar April 9, 2024 Large municipal desalination plants create more problems than they solve In this story: clean tech, water, clean water
Should Chicago Dye Its River Green for St. Patrick’s Day? By Lydia Larsen March 16, 2024 The dye is considered environmentally friendly, but some groups say the river shouldn’t be altered In this story: water, clean water, holidays, urban living
The Twisted Tale of Indianapolis’s White River By Robert Annis February 4, 2024 Once considered one of the most polluted waterways in the nation, the White River has been neglected and abused for 200 years. Can it make a comeback? In this story: clean water, water, rivers, racial justice
A New Hope for Shutting Down the Dakota Access Pipeline By Juliet Grable November 14, 2023 An unusual, after-construction public comment period opens the door for correcting a grave mistake In this story: Dakota Access Pipeline, NoDAPL, indigenous communities, clean water
New Orleans’s Saltwater Intrusion Scare Is a Reminder of a Nationally Looming Threat By Marlowe Starling , Emily Driehaus , Aarohi Sheth October 31, 2023 Climate change is worsening drought and sea level rise across the country—and that’s a major problem for securing safe drinking water In this story: lead, clean water, flint water crisis
It’s Long Past Time to Rewrite Outdated US Mining Laws By Jeremy Miller October 24, 2023 The White House and some legislators have a plan to reform the General Mining Act In this story: clean water, saving wild places
What We Cannot Permit By Ben Jealous May 26, 2023 The Republican plan for energy-permitting “reform” will end up sacrificing people and places In this story: dirty fuels, pipelines, clean water
Supreme Court Waters Down the Clean Water Act By Jason Mark May 25, 2023 In its latest ruling against environmental safeguards, SCOTUS decides that polluting or destroying some wetlands is OK In this story: Supreme Court, clean water, EPA
A Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes By Donovan Hohn March 16, 2023 A pipeline carrying Canadian tar sands crude has already leaked a million gallons. These are the resisters dedicated to shutting down Enbridge Line 5. In this story: pipelines, Line 5, indigenous communities, clean water, tar sands
Environmentalists Push to Protect the Okefenokee Swamp From Titanium Mining By Niko Zlotnik February 14, 2023 Georgia is considering whether to allow a mine to be built next to critical wetlands In this story: mining, clean water