Water Pollution

World Animal Rights Day falls on October 4. It coincides with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron Saint of animals and the environment. As far back as the 12th century, he recognised the importance of extending compassion towards animals. Today, wi…

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a violation notice to the city of city of San Francisco Wednesday for violating the Clean Water Act. This comes at a time when California is feuding with the federal government over whether or not the state has the r…

Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these elements are rare in Earth's crust, so mining them requires displacing vast volumes of dirt and rock. Hard rock miningso called because i…

For nearly five decades, weve been at the forefront of responsible investing. Although the burning issues of the times might have evolvedfor example, from auto safety and apartheid to climate change and governancewe have consistently worked to make environmen…

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to take steps towards ensuring that discharge of blood resulting from slaughter of pigs, is stopped. The directions came following a plea which alleged that t…

Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi was the great Iraqi military hero of the war against Isis, leading the assault on Mosul which recaptured the de facto Isis capital after a nine-month siege in 2017. But at the weekend he was suddenly removed as the com…

A sewer in San Francisco. | Photo via Shutterstock EPA worries about “untreated human waste entering nearby waters” On Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom accusing the stat…

Escalating its fight with California, the Trump administration accused the state Thursday of failing to stop water pollution from such sources as human waste left on the pavement by the homeless in big cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Franci…

by Alexa Diaz and Anna M. Phillips The Trump administration warned California officials Thursday that the state is "failing" to meet federal water quality standards, the latest move in the president's escalating political feud with the state's liberal leaders…

The Trump administration picked another fight with California Thursday, accusing the liberal state of being lax on water pollution and linking the problem in part to feces from homeless people. "Based on data and reports, the EPA is concerned that California…