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Ag Pollution Is Keeping Des Moines Water Works Busy. Can It Keep Up?

By Nina B. Elkadi

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

A worker climbs out of the walkway inside Hazel, the tunnel boring machine, on April 19, 2023 in Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

After $615 Million and 16 Months of Tunneling, Alexandria, Virginia, Is Close to Fixing Its Sewage Overflow Problem

By Sarah Vogelsong

A morning haze settles over the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, in July 2023 near Centreville, Maryland. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

The Chesapeake Bay Program Isn’t Likely to Hit Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

By Aman Azhar

Some streams and rivers in Alaska’s remote Brooks Mountain Range are turning orange. Researchers think melting permafrost may be the culprit. Credit: Josh Koch/USGS

Q&A: What’s in the Water of Alaska’s Rusting Rivers, and What’s Climate Change Got to Do With it?

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Sam Satterly investigated a hazardous waste dump known as the “Gully of the Drums” in Jefferson Memorial Forest, a Louisville public park, while she was a graduate student at the University of Louisville. Credit: Courtesy of Sam Satterly

The EPA Cleaned Up the ‘Valley of the Drums’ Outside Louisville 45 Years Ago. Why Did it Leave the ‘Gully of the Drums’ Behind?

By James Bruggers

The water crisis is maintained by an economic system that has made water bills and infrastructure exponentially more expensive; all while Black Americans’ trust in the water running through their homes has increasingly faltered. Credit: Adam Mahoney/Capital B

Record Investment Merely Scratches the Surface of Fixing Black America’s Water Crisis

By Adam Mahoney and Aallyah Wright, Capital B

Scum floats on the surface of Western Lake Erie on Sept. 20, 2017. Credit: NOAA

Lake Erie’s Toxic Green Slime is Getting Worse With Climate Change

By Nicole Pollack

Drill rig in a natural gas field in Wyoming

Fracking Chemical Found in Wyo. Aquifer

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Aerial view of a frac sand mining operation in Wisconsin

Sand Mining Emerges as New Frack Danger

By Anna Driver, Reuters

Old oil rig

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Tainting U.S. Drinking Water

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

Drilling rig

Can Michigan Prevent 'Fracking' Pollution Woes?

M. Lisa Weatherford, Midwest Energy News

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