Groups including GreenLatinos, 350 Colorado, Sierra Club sent a notice to Suncor Energy about its Commerce City Colorado refinery's pollution violations.
Colorado s oil producers
are bracing for a new fee associated with their production as
part of a compromise the industry reached with environmental
groups that were pushing for more stringent.
The Blackwater River, which flows more than 30 miles through West Virginia s Allegheny Mountains, ranks among the top 10 most endangered rivers in the nation, according to a new report. The river is threatened by a proposed four-lane highway construction project which would cross all of its headwater streams. Judy Rodd, executive director of the group Friends of Blackwater, said Corridor H would involve building a bridge in an area honeycombed with old mines and explains the construction could compromise decades-old work to actively treat the water in the North Fork of the Blackwater impacted by acid mine drainage. .
A new, high-tech wastewater treatment incinerator, used in only a few states, is on the wish list for one Michigan city. Former state Representative - now Mayor of Warren - Lori Stone is asking her former colleagues in the Environment, Great Lakes and Energy Subcommittee for up to $100 million to upgrade her city s wastewater treatment system. Warren s current plant was built in 1957 and serves over 137,000 residents. .
As Wyoming and other states grapple with shrinking Colorado River water levels - new research pinpoints how much water is being diverted to feed cattle, to sprawling desert cities, and the river s 40 million other stakeholders. The stakes are high in a time of persistent and widespread drought. Brian Richter - president of Sustainable Waters - said if Upper Basin states can t deliver the volume of water required under a century-old agreement, Lower Basin states could force the issue with what s known as a compact call. .