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Communities already facing pollution and failing infrastructure can become even more vulnerable when federal protections are ...
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The Clean Water Act that passed in 1972 dramatically improved the quality of our waterways, however, we still have a long way ...
Rain falling in the Everglades percolates through the porous limestone and recharges the Biscayne Aquifer, which supplies drinking water for 1 in 3 Floridians. But wetlands need time and space to ...
Rolling back federal Clean Water Act water protections threatens the quality of tap water, river health, and community health ...
One program that survived, though, was the EPA’s effort to monitor public drinking water systems for almost ... on the industries responsible for the pollution. The Bipartisan Infrastructure ...
The nitrate concentration in the shallow groundwater exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maximum contaminant level of 10 milligrams per liter for drinking water. “In California ...
The manager of Wilmington’s drinking-water plant, Benjamin Kearns ... the expectation of a booming market for cleaning up PFAS pollution has sparked a rush for better ways to capture and ...
Many sources of drinking water ... fluoride levels are additionally inflated in the soil and water in part as a byproduct of coal pollution. Both highly mineral-rich bedrock and coal burning ...
The accumulation of microplastics in arterial plaques introduces a new dimension to the ongoing conversation about cardiovascular risk factors.
For more than 50 years, the Columbia Environmental Research Center has produced research about contaminants and their effects in the water and ... in funding for the biological research program ...
Elevated nitrogen levels in Irish water is an unintended consequence of agricultural expansion and action must be taken to address this ...
The water has been classified under Class E, with a dissolved oxygen value of 2.3mg/L and a total coliform bacteria level at ...