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Months After a Jet Fuel Leak, No Agency Tested Waters Downstream of Piscataway Creek. So Community Groups Are Doing It Themselves.

Authorities that manage the Potomac River tributary did not sample the stretch where residents fish and recreate. One Indigenous leader sees the lack of response as part of a pattern of ongoing neglect.

By Aman Azhar

Air Force One departs from Joint Base Andrews in Prince Georges County, Maryland, on Sept. 11, 2025. Credit: Austin DeSisto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Fire officials and others gather outside of a Bronx supermarket the day after a fire tore through a market that fire officials blamed on a faulty lithium-ion battery on March 6, 2023 in New York City. While there were no fatalities in the blaze, numerous people were injured and it took approximately 200 firefighters to bring the fire under control. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Residents Oppose a Planned Lithium Battery Storage System Next to Their Homes in Maryland’s Prince George’s County

By Aman Azhar

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