At its conference last month, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers awarded a grand prize for university research to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD)...
Read More >The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) applauded USDA's new National Water Quality Initiative but voiced concern that the scale of the problem warrants more aggressive action...
Read More >The Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority and the Department of Environmental Protection will host a June 13 auction for the sale and purchase of nutrient credits in the Susquehanna and Potomac watersheds...
Read More >Under a new National Water Quality Initiative launched today, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will make at least $33 million in financial assistance available to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners for water quality initiatives...
Read More >EPA will distribute approximately $20 million through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant program during Fiscal Year 2012 and is currently requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes, universities and nonprofit organizations for new projects to restore and protect the Great Lakes...
Read More >The U.S. EPA has finalized its plan to demolish a building, dig up contaminated soil and sediment, and treat the groundwater at the Crown Cleaners of Watertown Inc. Superfund site in Herrings, New York...
Read More >IBM's World Community Grid and the University of Virginia have launched Computing for Sustainable Water, a project to simulate and predict the environmental and economic effects of agricultural, commercial, and industrial decisions over the next 20 years in and around the Chesapeake Bay...
Read More >It was announced today that an estimated $60 million in early restoration projects soon will begin along the Gulf Coast following the nation's largest oil spill...
Read More >Students from Niobrara High School in Niobrara, Neb., are being recognized with EPA Region 7's 2011 President's Environmental Youth Award for their work on a wetlands conservation project...
Read More >Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water...
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