On Tuesday, April 28, Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz (CA-25) pressed The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment hearing on the FY2027 EPA Budget, securing a commitment from the administrator to visit the New River region, engage with the binational water quality study, and apply the same federal model used to address the Tijuana River crisis to the New River in the Imperial Valley. … Ruiz detailed the severe conditions facing communities along the New River, which originates south of Mexicali carrying raw sewage, industrial waste, pesticides, and heavy metals across the border into Calexico before traveling sixty miles through Imperial County and emptying into the Salton Sea. 

Other water quality and pollution news:

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• WyoFile: EPA, conservation groups: Wyoming’s ‘impaired’ water protocols run afoul of the Clean Water Act
• ABC10 (San Diego): Coronado High School’s ‘Stop The Sewage Club’ heads to Sacramento to advocate for sewage crisis solutions
• Lake County News (Lakeport, Calif.): Project focuses on controlling phosphorus as part of improving Clear Lake’s health
• The Sacramento Bee (Calif.): Opinion: New oil drilling in California would put land, water, lives at risk