ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Recovery crews and divers searched the Potomac River for remains and cleared wreckage Saturday from the ...

Bill sponsors say a bottle bill could help alleviate pollution that has long affected communities of color. It calls for a 10 ...

While much about modern farming techniques centers around the use of synthetic pesticides (a catch-all term that includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other similar substances) on large ...

Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb of the District of Columbia has initiated a groundbreaking lawsuit against the United States government, accusing it of over 150 years of pollution that has ...

But it had been operating without a liner since opening in 1997 and started facing a range of questions from state and local regulators about the presence of volatile organic compounds in its ...

WASHINGTON - D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of polluting the Anacostia River for more than a century. The suit claims the government has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An Anacostia Riverkeeper boat passes along the river during a tour on May 1, 2024, at Anacostia Park in ...

FILE - An Anacostia Riverkeeper boat passes along the river during a tour on May 1, 2024, at Anacostia Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner) ...

The District of Columbia on Friday filed a lawsuit against the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, arguing it has inflicted “catastrophic harm” on the mostly poor and minority ...

“The federal government has been the number one driver of pollution,” said D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb. The District of Columbia sued the federal government Friday over pollution in ...

Trey Sherard of Anacostia Riverkeeper, a group dedicated to restoring the river, welcomed the lawsuit for what he described as the federal government’s “reckless and significant pollution of ...