New legislation in Albany aimed at reducing road salt pollution is drawing support from environmental advocates and ...

Rebecca Hale, who runs the watershed science lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, warned that ...

A Central New York lawmakers is proposing to cap road salt use to 300-pounds per mile. Adirondack advocates aren't convinced.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EAU CLAIRE — Wisconsin Salt Wise has begun Winter Salt Week, an organizational effort to raise awareness of the environmental and ...

Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D-Syracuse, is pictured during a November news conference in his Assembly district. Local governments could see new limits on the amount of road salt they can use each ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said road salt is the primary cause of high concentrations in the creeks.

This “Winter Salt Week” held Jan. 26-30 highlighted all the road salt we use, and how to reduce it. Lake Champlain Sea Grant and UVM Extension joined national partners in sharing with communities the ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Winter Salt Week is an annual initiative started in Wisconsin in 2021. It's aimed at spreading awareness about the growing issue of salt pollution in our waterways and promoting more ...

At Queen’s Park on Tuesday, advocates called on the province to reform a liability ecosystem that they say pushes private contractors to overuse salt in winter, driving up costs and contaminating ...

Pennsylvania residents who watched as the just-concluded 2025-26 state budget-preparation debacle played out might be thinking that the Legislature surely might now be able to find an issue that it ...

MADISON — Winter weather brings increased salt use on Wisconsin's roads, parking lots and sidewalks, but that salt is building up in the state's lakes and drinking water supplies. A statewide ...