Amid Rollbacks on Environmental Protections, the EPA Goes the Other Way on Delaware River Water Quality - Inside Climate News

Amid Rollbacks on Environmental Protections, the EPA Goes the Other Way on Delaware River Water Quality - Inside Climate News

Environmental activists praise the new rule, which will improve the health of the river for fish. But wastewater-treatment utilities face millions in new costs to make it happen.

Amid Rollbacks on Environmental Protections, the EPA Goes the Other Way on Delaware River Water Quality

Environmental activists praise the new rule, which will improve the health of the river for fish. But wastewater-treatment utilities face millions in new costs to make it happen. By Jon Hurdle The federal government is raising the required oxygen level in an urban stretch of the Delaware River near Philadelphia to improve conditions for fish and humans, but the move faces pushback from wastewater utilities that will have to pay millions of dolla…