News | EPA Considers Gutting Regulations on Lead Contamination East Chicago residents have been waiting weeks for Pruitt to respond to their emergency petition for federal aid. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout April 21, 2017 Truthout
Graphic Journalism | #WageLove: Water Activists Build a Global Movement Civil rights lawyer Alice Jennings is pushing the courts to see clean water in Detroit and Flint as a human rights issue. By Melissa Mendes & Anne Elizabeth Moore , Truthout April 19, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health The Legacy of Monsanto’s PCBs: Oozing Pus, Birth Defects and Immune Problems In 1937, GE and Monsanto made a business decision to continue making PCBs despite knowing that they were highly toxic. By Peter Montague , Truthout April 16, 2017 Truthout
News | Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge Pipeline Is One Permit Closer to Reality as Groups Plan Continued Resistance “We are not protesters, we are water protectors.” By Julie Dermansky , DeSmogBlog April 6, 2017 Truthout
News | Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment In 2016, chemicals detected in the state's drinking water prompted a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. By Rural America In These Times , InTheseTimes April 4, 2017 Truthout
News | Environment & Health This Invention Lets Rural Hondurans Clean Their Water — and Own the Treatment Plants What's at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need. By Carrie Koplinka-Loehr , YES!Magazine April 1, 2017 Truthout
News | While One Louisiana Town’s Lead-Tainted Water System Is Replaced, Dozens of Others Deteriorate “No one in America should have to live that way.” By Julie Dermansky , DeSmogBlog March 21, 2017 Truthout
News | Dahr Jamail | Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans The Navy doesn't keep records of toxins released so it can conclude that its activities have no environmental impacts. By Dahr Jamail , Truthout March 15, 2017 Truthout
News | East Chicago’s Pleas for Clean Drinking Water Go Unanswered as Trump Moves to Weaken EPA The White House's budget cuts would seriously weaken protections for low-income people of color. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 15, 2017 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Scott Pruitt’s First Big Test at EPA: Flint-Style Lead Contamination in Indiana Will Scott Pruitt keep the promise he made after the emergence of the crisis in Flint, Michigan? By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 3, 2017 Truthout