Swimmable Cities is a global alliance of local government officials, experts and advocates working to make urban waterways clean enough to swim in. Jan de Groen / Swimmable Cities ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Voted into law a half-century ago, the Clean Water Act of 1972 is still far from achieving its ambitious goals. The landmark law aimed to make U.S. waters safe for swimming and ...

Bronx activists are fuming that a proposal aimed at opening up the notoriously polluted Harlem River to swimming won’t do anything to keep raw sewage from being dumped there. The state Department of ...

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Air pollution has been convincingly linked to respiratory illnesses, while run-off from industries has not only diminished ...

Sweden's government is taking action to help protect the Baltic Sea, one of the world's most polluted bodies of water. Two pieces of legislation passed in June that will help keep the Baltic a little ...

An Oregon wood treatment facility polluted a town’s water source for years with a now-banned chemical. Regulators who knew didn’t stop it. After decades trapping crayfish in northwest Oregon, Mike ...

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