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DMR repairing oyster reefs damaged by 2015 spillway opening Sun Herald
A federal court on Friday rejected an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to waive certain ethanol blending requirements that regulators said were appropriate due to the state of fuel markets.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/344320-court-rejects-2015-epa-ethanol-waivers Down the Mighty Columbia River,
Where a Power Struggle Looms
The Trump administration has proposed selling off portions of a vast
system that produces nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity.
NY Times
The Air Force doesn't plan to reimburse three Colorado communities for the money spent responding to water contamination caused by toxic firefighting foam previously used at a military base, potentially leaving the towns with an $11 million tab.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article164434167.html Air Force to spend $30 million this year on Pease cleanup AP
Satellites in space and a robot under Lake Erie's surface are part of a network of scientific tools trying to keep algae toxins out of drinking water supplies in the shallowest of the Great Lakes.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article164431342.html Cleaning up human waste is cheapest way to improve health of region's beaches, report finds San Diego Union-Tribune
It’s been thought for decades that stormwater runoff is the major source of bacterial pollution in the county’s rivers, bays and beaches — triggering swimming advisories up and down the region’s shoreline for 72 hours after it rains.
However, the greatest source of dangerous pathogens flowing from these urban waterways into the ocean may actually be coming from human waste.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-watershed-pollution-20170731-story.html EPA OKs pollution controls on new diesel Jeeps, Ram pickups AP
