Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.
Clean water
If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.
Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.
The Latest on Clean water
Hurricane Beryl: Environment Texas’ Luke Metzger, other experts available for interviews
Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act
Updates
Texas State gets $500,000 federal grant to study fecal contamination of waters
EPA takes bold action on PFAS pollution
Conservation funding could be a big win for bees
What You Can Do
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Accidents Waiting to Happen: Factory Farms
Accidents Waiting to Happen
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Hazardous Materials by Rail
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Oil Pipelines
It took our home...and it stole our natureSuzanne Franklin, Permian Basin Resident
Life in the Oilfields – Living Next to Wells
If we're not looking to the future, even for our own children or grandchildren, then what do we have left today?Christa Mancias and Frankie Orona, Activists
Life in the Oilfields – Fossil Fuels and Indigenous Populations
What we need is enforcement of the existing rulesSarah Stogner , Attorney
Life in the Oilfields – Regulations and the RRC
There's stuff out there that probably won't clean up in my kids lifetime.Schuyler Wight, Rancher
Life in the Oilfields – Oil and water
The regulations in place to regulate oil and gas industry is in favor of the oil and gas and not in favor of the environment or the people.Neta Rhyne, Activist
Life in the Oilfields – Corporate pressure and government apathy
The Latest
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Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water
Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution
Statement: New rule will aid PFAS clean-ups
EPA lists two toxic PFAS chemicals under Superfund law
EPA sets limits for toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water
The EPA finalized six limits on PFAS chemicals in drinking water and released $1 billion in bipartisan infrastructure law funding to address PFAS contamination.
EPA proposes new clean water rules for meat and poultry polluters. What does this mean for Texas?
Texas is number one for water pollution, with slaughterhouses major contributor
Parents and teachers call on EPA to ‘get the lead out’ at school
Groups representing millions of parents and teachers joined environmental and public health advocates to urge the EPA to get the lead out of drinking water at schools and child care centers.