President Donald Trump has approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city address a sewage system leak ...

NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.

Virginia officials released the first downstream water quality data after a major sewage discharge from Maryland’s collapsed Potomac Interceptor, showing low bacteria levels in Prince William and ...

El Nino warps weather worldwide. Meteorologists say the natural El Nino cycle is both adding to and feeling the heat of a warming world. A new study says a shift ...

Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be ...

The disaster sparked environmental and public health concerns as dangerous levels of bacteria were found miles away in the ...

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Wednesday declared a local public emergency over the sewage spill in the Potomac River ...

A sewage pipe collapse just outside of Washington, D.C. that spilled 200 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River has caught Trump's attention.

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line ...

Moving forward, FEMA will play a "key role in coordinating the response" to the wastewater spill, Trump said while placing blame on Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD).

Drinking water in Prince William County, Manassas, Stafford County, and surrounding communities remains safe despite a massive sewage spill into the Potomac River that has triggered health advisories ...

Officials warn residents to avoid the Potomac River after a massive sewage spill caused dangerous contamination along more than 70 miles of the waterway.