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Water

Forget His Fancy Lotion and Chick-Fil-A, Pruitt's Gutting of EPA Rule Threatens Drinking Water of 117 Million Americans

As Planet Chokes on Plastic Waste, UN Report Offers Roadmap to Tackle Global Crisis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

plastic pollution

The anaylsis comes amid warnings that plastic pollution has become "one of our planet's greatest environmental challenges."

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'Clear Human Fingerprints' Found by NASA Study of Increasingly Dire Global Water Shortages

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This report is a warning and an insight into a future threat."

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Fearing 'Public Relations Nightmare,' Pruitt's EPA Blocked Release of a Major Water Contamination Study

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Trump, Pruitt

Journalists, members of Congress, environmental and public health advocates,...

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4 Years Since Flint Crisis Began, Ellison Bill Says 'Clean Water a Right for All'

LeeAnne Walters

Citizen Scientist Who Helped Expose Flint Water Crisis Honored With Goldman Prize

To Avoid Water Shortage for 5 Billion by 2050, UN Report Urges Nature-Based Solutions

Indigenous Leaders and Allies Stage Sit-In to Protest Kinder Morgan Pipeline

A 2012 photo by advocacy group Appalachian Voices shows "a horrific mess more than three years after" the coal ash disaster at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tenn. took place. (Photo: Appalachian Voices/flickr/cc)

Ending Rules to Curb 'Silent, Tasteless Killer,' Pruitt Makes It Easier for Polluters to Poison Nation's Water

Research Exposes $16 Billion Bottled Water Industry's Predatory Marketing Practices

In Latest 'Giveaway to Polluters', Trump EPA Suspends Clean Water Rule

Tree trunks stand in the critically low Theewaterskloof Dam in Villiersdorp, South Africa, Jan. 23, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

Climate Bellwether? With Cape Town Almost Out of Water, "Day Zero" Looms

New Report on Radioactive Tap Water Renews Concerns About Trump Nominee for Top Environmental Role

Donald Trump

As Trump Pushes Massive Deregulatory Agenda, One Key Beneficiary: Trump

FEMA's webpage providing statistics on the federal response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico no longer shows the percentage of those without clean drinking water or power. (Image: FEMA.gov with overlay)

Administration Blots Out Damning Data on Puerto Rico's Lack of Power, Water From Federal Response Website

New Research Links Flint Water Crisis to 'Horrifyingly Large' Spike in Fetal Death Rates

Newswire

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Senate Committee Moves to Force Release of Water Contamination Study Blocked by Scott Pruitt, White House

Food & Water Watch

Camden’s Privatized Water Hides Data on Shut-Offs

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

Public Interest Groups Call for Release of Suppressed U.S. Study on PFAS Chemicals

Food & Water Watch

Advocates and Community Members Request AG Investigate Martin County Water District

Food & Water Watch

House Appropriations Committee’s New Energy/Water Funding Bill is a Recipe for Disaster

Food & Water Watch

New Legislation Would Provide Urgent Protections to Prevent Another Flint Water Crisis Amid Trump’s Attack on Public Water

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Views

Gina Benevento

Who Owns America's Water?

Kathleen Rogers

Wrapped in a Sea of Plastic

Katherine Paul

From 'Sea to Shining Sea,' Industrial Ag Fouls America's Waterways

Jenni Monet

What Standing Rock Gave the World

Kaamil Ahmed

Gaza's Water Problems Continue to Compound

Mary Grant

Trump Wants to Sell Our Water to Wall Street

Negin Owliaei

To Understand Inequality in America, Look Outside of the Cities

Sol Trumbo, Nick Buxton

The Power of a Transformative City

Kathy Kelly

"Would You Like a Drink of Water?" Please Ask a Yemeni Child

David Schwenk

Promise in the Land of Despair: The Crisis Is Not Over in Flint, Michigan

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