As a result of a lawsuit filed by Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a draft permit to limit ...

On Nov. 8, the Boston Public Health Commission released a health advisory due to a cyanobacteria bloom in Sprague Pond in Hyde Park, which falls in the Neponset River watershed. For two weeks in ...

Scientists have used moss as a biological indicator of air pollution since the late 1960s. Moss data is an indicator of ...

Climate change is already causing native fish species to flee northward or die, and it’s only expected to get worse, local ...

In a recently concluded review of Logan’s operations, the state’s top ranking environmental official Secretary Rebeca Tepper, head of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) ...

The draft stormwater runoff rules target large private properties like malls and universities that are within the watersheds of the Charles, Mystic and Neponset rivers.

Since the early 2000s, regulators have known that about half of the pollution entering Boston-area rivers comes from commercial properties’ stormwater runoff, experts said, but it’s long gone ...

Researchers at Cal State University, Long Beach, in an analysis of Southern California harbor pollution, reported that discharge “from the ballast tanks of ships, though illegal, does occur.” Andrew ...

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Many sources of air pollution also produce greenhouse gas emissions. We are taking steps to reduce air pollution and fight climate change through establishing national air quality standards, making ...

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