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- Cranston sues landfill operator over wastewater discharge (10/29/13)
JOHNSTON — A lawsuit filed by the city of Cranston accuses the operator of Rhode Island’s Central Landfill of sending a stream of highly polluted wastewater to the city’s treatment facility.
- Commission sets water quality initiatives before shore-front owners (10/3/13)
Lawmakers and the Shumlin administration hold public meetings to gather ideas to bolster shore-land protection on state's 812 lakes and ponds.
- Judge dismisses parts of ‘Clean waters’ lawsuit (9/3/13)
CAPE COD — In written and oral rulings Friday from the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf denied the Environmental Protection Agency’s motion to dismiss a vital piece of a 2011 lawsuit brought jointly by Conservation Law Foundation and the Buzzards Bay Coalition
- For regulators and Nestle Waters, conflict by the gallon (9/1/13)
All three PUC commissioners and Maine's public advocate have ties to Poland Spring's parent company, which is seeking a 25-year contract.
- Essex wastewater plant dumps 500,000 gallons into river (8/7/13)
Spill one of an unusually high number of similar incidents in Vermont this year, state says
- Maine PUC chairman drops out of Poland Spring water case (10/15/13)
The chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission has recused himself from a controversial case involving the owner of Poland Spring water and the family-controlled utility in Fryeburg that supplies it with water
- Bon voyage, big boats on Candlewood Lake (9/4/13)
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced Wednesday that it will begin to enforce the state regulations concerning boat size on Candlewood beginning Saturday. It's the first time the DEEP has tried to enforce such a limit. "This is all new to us,'' Eleanor Mariani, the DEEP's director of boating, said Wednesday.
- Critics question Cape Cod fertilizer figures (9/4/13)
The Cape Cod Commission last week approved a Capewide planning district for fertilizer that would allow towns to regulate when and how much of the nutrient-infused material is applied.
- Decade after massive fish kill, Narragansett Bay healthier, but work remains (8/19/13)
On Aug. 20, 2003, John Torgan awoke to a call about dead fish in Greenwich Bay. As Baykeeper for Save the Bay back then, he rushed to Warwick to investigate, climbing atop a sea wall overlooking Apponaug Cove.
- EPA only has funds for half its CAD cell (8/7/13)
NEW BEDFORD — The EPA's Lower Harbor CAD cell is so big that it has to be dug in two phases, but agency officials are unsure of when they'll be able to pay for the second phase