Fining English water companies for spilling raw sewage will soon become quicker and easier, the government has said. New proposals would see automatic fines of up to £20,000 issued for some minor offences and make it simpler to punish more serious ones.

Nearly 55 million gallons of sewage are threatening Hawaii’s coral reefs. Much of that pollution enters the ground each day, within just a few hundred yards of the coast and the 410,000 acres of life-supporting reefs that lie beyond it. Exposure to ...

Mashpee voters gave the town permission to borrow money for the construction of a system that will help reduce nutrient pollution in Mashpee-Wakeby Pond.

A private sewage pump failure led to more than 27 hours of untreated discharge into the Canandaigua Outlet last week — and the cause may be linked to repeated power disruptions at the site. The New York State Sewage Pollution Right to Know system issued an update Tuesday confirming that the incident began at

CORONADO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Mexico’s Punta Bandera Wastewater Treatment Plant has been repaired and is back up and running at full capacity, helping to stop some of the sewage from entering the Pacific Ocean in southern San Diego County, and the ...