Mercury, PFAS and other harmful pollutants have for years emanated off the BASF Wyandotte plant's property through groundwater into the Detroit River The company is working with U.S. EPA on a ...

Rivers, lakes, and wetlands cover the landscape of our blue planet, but over 97 percent of the world’s freshwater resources lie beneath the ground. In fact, scientists estimate that there is 100 times ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

A view of the city of San Luis Obispo from Terrace Hill. Joe Johnston [email protected] The city of San Luis Obispo wants to pump groundwater again — but first it must clean up decades-old ...

When Morrow County declared a state of emergency in 2022 over the high levels of nitrates found in the Lower Umatilla Basin’s groundwater, the long-term response to the crisis was a jumble of local ...

Oregon regulators would gain new powers to enter private rural properties under a bill that aims to make the state government more proactive in preventing groundwater pollution. Senate Bill 1154 would ...

GADSDEN, Ala.—Cruising upstream on the Coosa River through downtown Gadsden, it would be easy to miss the old coal ash pond sitting on the north bank of the river. It’s mostly hidden by trees and ...

Like many families in Wisconsin, my family turns on the tap every day trusting that our drinking water is safe. We shouldn’t have to wonder whether contamination is present in our community or nearby ...

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A 39-page amendment added to the bill Friday neutralizes the power it would have brought to state agencies to enforce pollution regulations, groups said. FILE- Gov. Tina Kotek on May 3, 2023 at the ...