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Potentially toxic chemicals have been found in water from wells at least 16 miles from the Chemours plant in Bladen County, with more than 4,660 having at least one of

Dayton sues Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, DoD for water pollution Associated Press Vehicles enter Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (Wesley Farnsworth/Air Force) DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The city of Dayton has sued the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Defense Department for failing to stop water contaminants from entering a source of the city’s drinking water. The lawsuit filed Monday in the Southern District of Ohio accuses the air base of failing to stop per-and polyfluo...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A $17 million water treatment facility at the former Pease Air...

Saint-Gobain whistleblower says company ignored pleas to probe pollution sites Complaint alleges far higher levels of pure PFOA were used at Hoosick Falls plant FacebookTwitterEmail 27 1of27Buy PhotoSign outside Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will WaldronShow MoreShow Less 2of27Buy PhotoMichael Hickey, the resident who investigated and discovered PFOA in the Hoosick Falls village water system, on Thursda...

We are still grappling with the not-so-little secret that Gustavus is not pristine.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan The Obama-era Waters of the United States rule expanded the types of waterways that are regulated by federal law. The Trump administration rolled back protections for streams and other smaller bodies of water.  “We don’t have any intention of going back to the original Obama Waters of the U.S. verbatim and we don’t necessarily agree with everything that was in the Trump administration’s version as well. We’ve learned ...

weekly political column. Tim Newcomb Vermont has spent nearly $200 million in the past five years to clean up its waterways. But the threats to water quality only seem to have intensified, reinforcing the questions in some quarters about whether the state really has the will to do whats necessary to restore lakes and streams. Much of the focus in recent years has been on efforts to reduce phosphorus p...

UF Algorithm for Tastier Strawberries Friday Apr 16th, 2021 News Reporter Developing taster fruit seems to be a never-ending process for some scientists. But thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, the perfect tasting strawberry may soon be a reality. This would be great news for Floridas $300 million a year strawberry industry. Vance Whitaker, a UF/IFAS associate professor of horticultural sciences, has developed an algorithm that allows scientists to predict how a strawberr...

Credit NHPR Photo New Hampshire’s U.S. senators are asking federal regulators to allow state and local governments to spend pandemic stimulus funds on addressing PFAS chemical contamination. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan joined a bipartisan group making the request to theTreasury Department this week. They want a $350 billion-dollar portion of the American Rescue Plan made eligible to test and treat local water supplies for PFAS, and for other related projects. The industrial chem...

Their last battle royale in 1962 earned the two adversaries an exalted spot in pop culture, so there is little surprise that interest in the upcoming rematch in the new film “Godzilla vs. Kong” is high. Aficionados of old-school Japanese kaiju, or monster, films are especially keen to see whether this bout between giant gorilla Kong and dinosaur-like sea monster Godzilla ends with a definitive winner. But that likely will be anybody’s guess, says William Tsutsui, the Edwin O. Reischauer ...