clean water

For This Teen, Graywater Is the New Recycling

Shreya Ramachandran built a graywater system, and you can build one too

By Wendy Becktold May 2, 2019

In this story: activism, clean water

Shreya Ramachandran sits in a chair in her room smiling

The Overstory: Drawdown

Season One, Episode Five

March 6, 2019

In this story: national parks, climate change, energy efficiency, coal ash, clean water

States' Rights? Not When It Comes to Pipeline Permitting.

Trump administration looks to undermine states’ powers under Clean Water Act

By Matt Smith February 5, 2019

In this story: clean water, pipelines, oil, fracked gas

Make Colonizers Afraid Again

Indigenous activists are standing up to uranium

By Zak Podmore November 14, 2018

In this story: clean energy, clean water, nuclear, environmental justice, public lands

So WOTUS Is Legal. Now What?

Fewer strip malls and subdivisions, possibly

By Heather Smith September 26, 2018

In this story: clean water, agriculture, oil

A Toxin in Every Household

PFAS face government roadblocks to EPA regulation, but states are fighting back

By Alison Cagle August 12, 2018

In this story: PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), toxics, clean water, environmental justice

Waterkeepers Fight to Save Florida From Toxic Algae

Toxic algal blooms have been taking over South Florida

By Rebecca Renner July 30, 2018

In this story: clean water

Judge Dread

What could replacing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh do to the environment?

By Heather Smith July 9, 2018

In this story: environmental justice, federal climate policy, clean water, water, clean energy

Flint’s Water Problems Aren’t Over

Gina Luster, a Flint Rising organizer, is still living with the effects of lead poisoning

By Wendy Becktold June 27, 2018

In this story: environmental justice, clean water, toxics

The Lead Poisoning in Flint Points to a Nationwide Problem

Cities carefully monitor lead in the water supply, except when they don't

By SIERRA Staff July 2, 2018