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Cleaning Up Chesapeake Bay

Efforts to improve the estuary are making headway, but the road to recovery is long

March 23, 2016

For years, Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of dire reports: dwindling fish, crab and oyster populations, loss of native underwater grasses, eroding shorelines, murky water and algae blooms caused by excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.

Innovation Keeps Water Treatment Plants Online

Thomas F. Armistead

March 23, 2016

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A digester system cannot be shut down for more than a few hours without serious consequences.

State Seeks Millions in U.S. Aid For Flint Drinking Water

Bruce Buckley

March 17, 2016

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EPA chief, governor and House members clash at Mar. 17 Congressional hearing on responsibility for massive lead contamination.

Funds Sought for Corps River Locks, 'Green' Projects

Tom Ichniowski

March 16, 2016

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Eight senators and an industry-and-labor coalition are lobbying for 2017 funds for a long-delayed Army Corps of Engineers navigation and environmental program in the Midwest.

EPA Answers Critics After Scathing Animas Spill Report

Nicholas Zeman

March 9, 2016

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The U.S. Congress’ House Committee on Natural Resources says the Environmental Protection Agency’s engineers don’t have the skills to manage mine remediation work because of Colorado’s Gold King Mine disaster in August, when 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater were spilled into the Animas and San Juan rivers during an EPA-led effort to reopen the mine.

Canal Leaks Threaten Miami Water

Polluted groundwater lens has migrated four miles from FPL's Turkey Point nuclear power plant and is still moving

Thomas F. Armistead

March 9, 2016

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Officials and researchers are closing in on the causes of hypersaline pollution of the main source of potable water in Miami-Dade County, Fla.

EPA Unveils New Cleanup Plan for Passaic River in N.J.

Jeff Rubenstone

March 9, 2016

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on March 4 finalized its plan to clean up a heavily polluted section of the Passaic River in New Jersey.

N.C. Issues First US Permit for Dewatering Coal-Ash Ponds

Jim Parsons

March 3, 2016

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North Carolina has issued the nation’s first National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the dewatering of power-plant coal-ash ponds in upland areas.

Iraq Hires Trevi-Led Team for Emergency Repairs to Mosul Dam

Peter Reina

March 3, 2016

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Faced with warnings of an imminent, catastrophic collapse of the earthfill structure causing widespread devastation, the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources on March 2 signed up Italy’s Trevi Group to stem leaks under the dam and repair a bottom outlet floodgate.

High Court Vacancy Creates Uncertainty for Contractors

Pam Hunter McFarland

March 2, 2016

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With Republicans vowing to block any Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly on Feb. 13, the fate of cases pending before the court, or that could end up on its future docket, has been clouded with uncertainty.