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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the award of $3.5 million to an ongoing program that will support projects to protect and restore the nation’s estuaries—those rich, productive coastal habitats where freshwater rivers and streams meet tidal areas.

Nutrient pollution fouls lakes and bays with algae, killing fish and threatening public health. Progress curbing it has been slow, mainly because of farm pollution.

A report identifies 35% of Montanas river miles and 22% of lake acres as impaired by nutrients.

“Based on the available record, it is apparent that removal of the numeric nutrient criteria results in criteria that do not contain sufficient parameters or constituents to protect designated uses,"

Penn State Centre Stage's "Blood at the Root," the return of the Maple Harvest Festival at Shaver's Creek, two puppet performances at Penn State Altoona and the 2022 Graduate Exhibition at University Park campus are among the cultural highlights at Penn State this weekend and next week.

Researchers discovered troublesome nutrients in coastal waters and coral reefs off West Hawaiʻi are from human sources, like fertilizer run off.

The Mashpee Board of Health voted unanimously last Thursday, December 16, to begin daily fines for properties around Santuit Pond that have not yet complied with a September order to

What remains unknown is what would occur if the EPA ultimately declines to accept Montana’s narrative rule package as sufficient to meet requirements of the Clean Water Act.

Escorted by kayakers, paddleboarders and pontoon boats, a group of swimmers swam across Mashpee/Wakeby Pond on Sunday, September 12, to raise awareness for degrading water quality.

A group litigating variances to Montana’s water quality standards petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency Monday claiming a new state law runs counter to the agency’s authority to approve or disprove changes under the Clean Water Act and is a risk to the state’s waterways. Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed the petition following the signing of Senate Bill 358 into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte. The new law repeals numeric standards for “nutrients,” namely nitrogen an...