Strange as it is for a senior Democrat in the Legislature to argue for protecting water agencies with contaminated supplies, ...

A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law, ensuring state water pollution laws cover the same waterways—wetlands, creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes ...

A Supreme Court ruling placed limits on federal protections for many streams and wetlands. A bill in California’s Legislature seeks to restore safeguards.

Southern California can keep a landmark rule that’s meant to spur the electrification of certain boilers and water heaters ...

The U.S. and Mexico have signed an agreement with specific takes aimed at cleaning up pollution from sewage poured in the ...

"You look on the county’s website you see this beach is under advisory, this beach is not under advisory stuff like that what ...

The lake has been choking on past pollution and toxic blooms for decades. Thanks to new state investment, there’s finally momentum toward action.” ...

The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater — including sewage, industrial waste and runoff — into the Pacific Ocean ...

The Pathogen Forecast Model launched this week by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego looks five days ahead at weather, tides, waves and river flows to calculate ocean water ...

Heal the Bay, which issues a weekly beach pollution report card based on its own testing, says the area is a repeat offender. “From a scale of A-plus to F, in 2025 the Santa Monica Pier has ...

All future water pollution laws in California will have to cover the same waterways – wetlands, creeks, streams rivers and lakes – that applied to the federal Clean Water Act as recently as ...