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Stewardship saved a Southern California estuary from development. Climate change is the next challenge.
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Green groups sue EPA over factory farm pollution rules

A group of 13 environmental organizations has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking to force the agency to bolster regulations for industrialized livestock farms, which can pollute U.S. rivers and lakes with raw sewage and other contaminants.
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DeSantis, Florida environmental protection agency attacked by watchdog

The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has again criticized what it calls Florida's lax environmental enforcement.
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WATCH: Cutting the crap

A small group of English cold-water swimmers takes on industry and the government over the misuse of a loophole allowing the discharge of raw sewage into coastal waters.
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Black Alabamians endured poor sewage for decades. Now they may see justice.

Officials in Alabama discriminated against Black residents in a rural county by denying them access to adequate sanitation systems and ignoring the serious health risks plaguing the community, according to a settlement announced by the Biden administration.
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George Monbiot: At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue – and the danger isn’t just sewage

Tackling water pollution means unpicking a complex web of assaults from source to sea, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.

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A cycle of septic repairs, washouts on park service beaches

With two-dozen oceanfront septic systems compromised by storms so far this year and spilling on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Dare County, several have been repaired only to be washed away again.
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