FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is expanding its investigation of contaminated water in Franklin County. The investigation comes after water in ...

Richmond’s Department of Public Utilities has received violation letters from regulators in the past three months for ...

Watermen are asking state agencies to pause the practice of using sewage sludge as fertilizer. They worry that toxic “forever chemicals” may accumulate in oysters, crabs, clams and fish.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) is preparing to implement revised risk assessment protocols for many of its site cleanup programs. DEQ’s new approach is called the ...

Richmond area’s water crisis: A timeline of what happened The city says Anthony “Scott” Morris, the director of Water at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, has been chosen to ...

Due to winter precipitation over the last two weeks, the Department of Environmental Quality has lifted drought advisories ...