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President accused Wes Moore of ‘gross mismanagement’ after federally managed sewer line ruptured last month

Families and emergency responders are marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly plane collision over the Potomac River

In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil war

Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage and contained toxic chemicals. Ohio’s Cuyahoga River was so contaminated, its oil slicks erupted in flames.

More than two weeks after a helicopter and airplane collision over Washington killed 67 people, investigators have completed their work at the scene where the aircraft fell into the Potomac River

Almost a week after a helicopter and airplane collision in Washington killed 67 people, investigators are still at work as salvage crews pull out chunks of aircraft

NTSB says that Blackhawk was flying more than 100ft higher than its allowed altitude when collision took place

Efforts to recover the aircraft, as well as the remaining bodies, continue on Tuesday

The bodies of 55 of the 67 victims have been retrieved from the river