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Topic: water pollution

Horacio Romero of Toledo, Ohio, looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park on Aug. 4, 2014. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae are back. We're all at risk

Patrick Wensink
Supreme Court under polluted water (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS is helping polluters

Matthew Rozsa
TOLEDO, OHIO - AUGUST 4: Algae washes ashore from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two day ban due to algae related toxins. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae in the Great Lakes

Diana Kruzman - Grist
A sunken World War II-Era Higgins landing craft that used to be nearly 200 feet underwater is being revealed near the Lake Mead Marina as the waterline continues to lower on July 01, 2022 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Climate change is evaporating lakes

Matthew Rozsa
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Plastic contaminations in a glass of water (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Tire particles are destroying lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Catherine Coleman Flowers (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

Flowers' quest to drain the septic swamp

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main
The Animas River flows through the center of Durango (Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

US rivers are changing color

Matthew Rozsa
TOLEDO, OHIO - AUGUST 4: Algae washes ashore from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two day ban due to algae related toxins. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Lake Erie & Rights of Nature

Dana Zartner - The Conversation
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David Bernhardt (AP/David Zalubowski)

Zinke's replacement: No better

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

5,800 square miles of dead ocean

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

EPA stops punishing polluters

Igor Derysh
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Algae is taking over Lake Erie

Maria Gallucci - Grist
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Brett Kavanaugh (AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Kavanaugh could destroy the EPA

Amanda Marcotte
Scott Pruitt (Getty/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Scott Pruitt: Not the real problem

Amanda Marcotte
High water cover the road in the Box Town neighborhood as a waste can floats Sunday, May 8, 2011 in Memphis, Tenn. as flood waters continue to rise along the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/Wade Payne) (AP)

US rivers becoming saltier

Sujay Kaushal, Gene E. Likens, Michael Pace, Ryan Utz - The Conversation
(Wikimedia/U.S. Coast Guard)

No lessons learned from Deepwater spill

Donald Boesch - The Conversation
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Scott Pruitt (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Forcing the EPA to do its job

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Karen Budd-Falen (AP/YouTube/Salon)

Will Bundy lawyer lead BLM?

Amanda Marcotte
Water is distributed at the Lincoln Park United Methodist Church in Flint, Mich, Feb. 3, 2015. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Accountability for Flint

Matthew Rozsa
Environmental Protection Agency headquarters (iStock/Skyhobo)

Reagan Waskom, David J. Cooper - The Conversation
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(Reuters/Salon)

rural U.S. reacts to climate

Rebecca J. Romsdahl - The Conversation
(AP/Steve Helber)

Sheltering in place

Shawna Kay Rodenberg
(Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock)

Fracking's dangerous waste

Lindsay Abrams
(Meryll/Shutterstock)

Iowa's drinking water debacle

Lindsay Abrams
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