Stormwater

Two sides of the country and two different discussions about sewage and stormwater: Why is San Francisco a decade behind east coast cities in the adoption of green infrastructure?

Before you head to the beach this Fourth of July weekend, no doubt you will check the forecast for any impending bad weather. But to avoid some potent...

Imagine sewage, sludge, and street pollutants mixed with billions of gallons of water flooding literally thousands of basements, pouring along streets...

Pollution prevention, efficiency, conservation, reuse, doing things locally and in a distributed and decentralized manner are all core principles for moving forward with water and other natural resources.

We called it, simply, The Test. I grew up on a house on Barnegat Bay in Chadwick Beach, New Jersey. With four little children scampering around, my pa...

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.

What does an energy bill have to do with beachwater? An awful lot, it turns out, because global warming poses an immediate risk to nearly every town and city beach across the country.

All too often city beaches offer something other than fun: an elevated risk of contracting rashes and diarrhea because failing urban pipes dump untreated sewage right into our beaches.

Before you dip into the water, you should be aware that swimming at your local beach can make you sick.

As a City Council member, Jack Weiss has a record overall on the environment that is excellent based on any measure.Environmental attorneys in Los Angeles like David Beckman and me support Jack Weiss.