Dec 18, 2024 · By Evgenia Anastasakos, Circle of Blue A plan by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to limit lead contamination in drinking water would require most water utilities across the nation to replace all lead pipes within ten years. Chicago, which has nearly 400,000 lead service lines, will receive additional time to get the job done, with a 20-year-timeline. The EPA’s revisions to the ...

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Sep 24, 2020 · One Michigan County Tells the Story of a Nation Plagued By Water Pollution Farms housing thousands of animals are one of several sources contaminating the Pine River and dividing a mid-Michigan community.

May 8, 2024 · Palo Alto County has second highest cancer incidence among all U.S. counties.

Nov 8, 2024 · But that bucolic tableau of plain people earnestly cultivating the rich soil where three states meet has ceased to exist, splintered by an industrial farm alliance between one of the area’s leading Amish farming families and JBS Foods, the world’s largest beef producer. Over the last two years, JBS has forged a partnership to establish a mammoth vertically integrated concentrated cattle ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Shell-shocked residents of Valencia wondered when rain inundated eastern Spain in October. The turbulent floods, a deadly deluge, killed at least 224 people and laid waste to bridges and roads, buildings and fields.

Jun 18, 2019 · 2010-2018 water rates data from 30 major U.S. cities. The interactive graphs show average monthly residential water prices for three levels of consumption and the annual percent change.

Dec 16, 2024 · The American public, newly conditioned to the health dangers of a polluted environment, was worried. Media reports documented carcinogens in the lower Mississippi River. The federal government, empowered by recent legislation, sued Reserve Mining Company for dumping asbestos-like fibers into Lake Superior, thereby jeopardizing the water supply for Duluth, Minnesota, and at least four other ...

Oct 16, 2015 · Nearly one-fifth of U.S. households are not connected to a public sewer. More than 21 million households in the United States use septic systems — not a public sewer — to trap and filter their toilet waste. The underground tanks are most common in rural areas, especially in New England and the Deep South. They are an often overlooked source of water pollution and disease transmission. In ...

Jan 26, 2023 · Refresh A Great Lakes News Collaborative series investigating the region’s water pollution challenges. This series explores the Clean Water Act’s shortcomings in the Great Lakes, and how the region can more completely address water pollution in the next 50 years. The collaborative’s four newsrooms — Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, and Michigan Radio — work ...