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Trump the environmentalist? Now there’s a dirty joke.

From day one of his administration, President Trump’s top priority has been to reverse Obama-era regulations designed to make the air and water cleaner.

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'The river disappears, but the pollution doesn't'

The disappearing Big Lost River has long confounded federal regulators, but the confusion could soon end under the Trump administration's Waters of the U.S. rule, which would eliminate Clean Water Act protections for many waterways, including the Big Lost.

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Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire 50 years ago. It inspired a movement.

On June 22, 1969, Cleveland's filthy river ignited for the 13th and last time. It and other American rivers are dramatically cleaner today.

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The scary new math of factory farm waste

Factory farms are exempt from reporting requirements under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

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Did a burning river really fuel landmark law's passage?

Cleveland's Cuyahoga River burned for the last time 50 years ago this week. It was a small fire, under control in a half hour and fully extinguished within two hours. A firefighter told reporters it "wasn't that big a deal." Yet the blaze has been credited with sparking passage of the Clean Water Act.

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Peter Dykstra: A river burns through it

Sometime in the 1980's, I spoke to a crowd of a hundred or so people at Youngstown State University in the Rust Belt city in Northeast Ohio.

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Ruth Greenspan Bell, Steven Silverman: Pollution knows no boundaries. The Trump EPA should stop pretending otherwise

Deferring to the states on cutting environmental protections but not on protecting the environment is hypocritical and wrong.

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PFAS require real action

The EPA offers a vague plan on PFAS pollution, which may affect as many as 110 million people. A national health threat demands regulators do more than drag their heels.

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Washington state company to settle EPA water pollution case

A Washington state lumber company has agreed to a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over allegations of water pollution.

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EPA officials met with law firm in groundwater case

EPA officials met with lawyers involved in a key Clean Water Act case days before a petition was due to the Supreme Court.

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Fish species in Ohio River have substantially increased since '60s, study finds

Researchers looked at 60 years of fish survey and credit the Clean Water Act, less agriculture near the river and modified dams.

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Maui County could settle Clean Water Act case

The biggest environmental case on the Supreme Court's docket in years might not happen after all. Earthjustice has made a settlement offer to Maui County, Hawaii, in closely watched litigation over the scope of the Clean Water Act.

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EPA guidance could reduce oversight of coal ash in Indiana waterways

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a memo this week saying contamination in groundwater that feeds into rivers, streams, and lakes doesn't need to be regulated under the Clean Water Act. It goes against two federal court decisions that argued the opposite.

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New Mexico fights federal proposal to change water protections

The Trump administration wants to eliminate federal Clean Water Act protections for streams, arroyos, wetlands and rivers considered “ephemeral" — those that are sometimes dry.

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From our Newsroom

Trump the environmentalist? Now there’s a dirty joke.

'The river disappears, but the pollution doesn't'

Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire 50 years ago. It inspired a movement.

The scary new math of factory farm waste

Did a burning river really fuel landmark law's passage?

Marking 50 years since the Cuyahoga River fire, which sparked US environmental action

Peter Dykstra: A river burns through it

Ruth Greenspan Bell, Steven Silverman: Pollution knows no boundaries. The Trump EPA should stop pretending otherwise

PFAS require real action

Washington state company to settle EPA water pollution case

EPA officials met with law firm in groundwater case

Fish species in Ohio River have substantially increased since '60s, study finds

Maui County could settle Clean Water Act case

EPA guidance could reduce oversight of coal ash in Indiana waterways

New Mexico fights federal proposal to change water protections

Nutrient runoff starves corals in the Florida Keys

Too much nitrogen killed off corals in the Keys, and, as reefs suffer around the world, this new research offers lessons learned in Florida that could save other nutrient-loaded corals

“A friend is gone:” Handpicking hardy corals to save them from warming waters

As warming waters and acidification threaten corals around the world, scientists are gathering clues to save the charismatic colonies and bolster biodiversity

Peter Dykstra: Trump’s Midsummer Night’s Hallucination

With his normal Shakespearean aplomb, the president rattles off a list of his green credentials.

EU court confirms BPA as substance of ‘very high concern’

How toxic PFAS chemicals could be making their way into food from Pennsylvania farms

The chemicals—linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and ulcerative colitis—have been detected in a type of fertilizer used on farms throughout the state.

Monoculture farming is not good for bees: Study

Farmers around the world are increasingly relying on pollinators—but not providing the crop diversity bees and other insects need to thrive

Too much nitrogen killed off corals in the Keys, and, as reefs suffer around the world, this new research offers lessons learned in Florida that could save other nutrient-loaded corals

As warming waters and acidification threaten corals around the world, scientists are gathering clues to save the charismatic colonies and bolster biodiversity

With his normal Shakespearean aplomb, the president rattles off a list of his green credentials.

The chemicals—linked to cancer, thyroid disease, and ulcerative colitis—have been detected in a type of fertilizer used on farms throughout the state.

Farmers around the world are increasingly relying on pollinators—but not providing the crop diversity bees and other insects need to thrive

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