water pollution

A controversial bill that would significantly roll back Kentucky’s ability to regulate water pollution will become law after the GOP-controlled legislature on Thursday overrode its veto by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Environmental advocates, including author Silas House, gathered to urge lawmakers not to pass a bill allowing more water pollution.

From its sometimes turbid currents, the Ohio River and the basin encompassing it provide drinking water, electricity, commerce, habitat and recreation for…

Tap water delivered by more than 2,000 water systems across the Ohio Valley contain pollutants, many harmful to human health, even though they mostly meet…

The multi-state commission overseeing water quality along the Ohio River has adopted voluntary pollution control standards nearly a year after member…

A commission that watches over the Ohio River's health across six states may give up setting pollution standards for the waterway, raising concerns it…

The Sea Grant program, which funds research on coastal environments, is slated by White House for elimination in 2018. If it goes, a project that finds leaking septic tanks goes down the drain, too.

For more than half a century along the Ohio River, the chemical company DuPont provided jobs for thousands of people. One chemical they produced is PFOA,…

Widespread lead contamination in Flint, Michigan is prompting Kentucky officials to double check state procedures.A state workgroup has been formed to…

Grant funds for projects that clean up polluted streams, rivers, lakes and groundwater or protect water resources are available from the Kentucky…