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What Your Plastic Water Pipes Are Doing to Your Tap Water
New research found that plastic pipes can release additives into stagnant tap water and help bacteria grow. In a house…
A Working Cattle Ranch Just Became Part of Florida’s Wildlife Highway
The easement cost about $6 million, most of it from Florida's Rural and Family Lands program, with $2 million from…
Lead the EPA once called safe is still in the yards where East Helena kids play
The EPA cut the cleanup line from 1,000 to 400 parts per million, and 1,517 yards that passed under the…
A strong El Nino is lining up to reshape your winter air and water
The National Weather Service put the odds of a very strong event at 63% for November through January. It pushes…
California is making electricity from ocean waves, and the waves never stop
Solar quits at night. Wind dies on calm days. Waves keep rolling in, and the more power they send to…
Old factory land near Iowa homes carries lead, arsenic and solvent risk
The EPA sent $6.9 million to Keokuk, Burlington, Dyersville, Dubuque and a regional planning group to assess and clean contaminated…
EPA plan may let diesel trucks pollute longer near your highways
The EPA proposal ends the deratement that forced repairs when a truck's NOx controls failed, and it shortens emissions warranties…
Gray whales are starving to death and washing up on Washington beaches
Twenty-one have died on Washington shores since March, most of them emaciated, after Arctic sea ice melting early cut off…
The four ways forever chemicals reach your tap, and the machine built to end them
A Columbus, Ohio plant runs water past 705 degrees and 3,200 pounds of pressure to snap the carbon-fluorine bond in…
One in five people this seawater bacteria infects will not survive
Vibrio vulnificus caused just 150 to 200 US cases a year, but wound infections along the East Coast rose eightfold…
A flesh-eating fly wiped out in the U.S. is back in Texas, and pets are at risk
Female screwworm flies lay eggs in open wounds, which can put even a small unnoticed cut on an animal at…
The EPA pulled a 27-foot abandoned boat off a Shinnecock beach
A 1,200-pound navigational buoy came off a second beach in the same operation, after more than five years aground. The…
Wild pigs cost U.S. farmers up to $3.4 billion a year
USDA says the damage runs from $2.5 billion to $3.4 billion once crop losses and other property damage are counted…
A mega-yacht marina is planned over Biscayne Bay’s last seagrass flats
Miami-Dade has filed for a marina with 325 slips and dry storage for 500 boats on a stretch of bay…
Suspending the federal gas tax would cut prices by only 4%
Crude oil drives most of the price of a gallon, while the federal gas tax adds only 18.4 cents. Even…
Florida’s queen conch is threatened, and still has nowhere protected to live
Federal officials listed the queen conch as threatened in 2024, but the habitat rule that should protect where it lives…
More than 1,000 data centers are moving toward American neighborhoods
Local governments are reaching for moratoriums as more than 1,000 data center projects move toward neighborhoods across the United States…
War near the Strait of Hormuz could cut fertilizer runoff into US waterways
Closing the strait disrupted a third of the world's traded farm nutrients, pushing growers to plant several million fewer acres…
Florida just took control of a $23 billion Everglades rescue project
Florida now controls a major effort to move more fresh water south from Lake Okeechobee toward Florida Bay, a shift…
Illegal bug killer sold in Atlanta stores used a restricted pesticide
Sniper was being sold over the counter even though it contained dichlorvos, a pesticide EPA has restricted over its health…
EPA is reviewing fluoride in drinking water years ahead of schedule
EPA moved its fluoride review forward and will examine two possible effects in children: lower IQ and tooth enamel staining…
Every baby bottle and sippy cup tested leaked bisphenols into drinks
Every baby bottle and sippy cup tested released BPA or BPS into the liquid inside, including plain water and liquids…
More than half of Florida’s waterways fail, and enforcement keeps falling
More than half of Florida's assessed waters fail state standards, and enforcement actions now run at half their 2010 rate…
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