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"Coal Ash Cleanup At Grainger Site Results In Cleaner Groundwater" [1]

"COLUMBIA, SC --  Since a power company began digging up coal ash from a leaking waste pond west of Myrtle Beach, arsenic levels have dropped dramatically in groundwater, according to an environmental group that pushed to have the ash removed."

Energy & Fuel [2]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Columbia State [7], 06/03/2016
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"Water Departments To Change Lead-Testing Methods After Investigation" [8]

"Water departments that use controversial lead-testing practices have told the Guardian they will change their methods after an investigation revealed they were not following environmental guidelines."

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [10], 06/03/2016
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In Alabama, 100,000 People Told Not To Drink Water Due To Contamination [11]

"A water provider in northern Alabama warned more than 100,000 customers on Thursday not to drink or cook with tap water, saying it could be contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of a chemical that federal health officials have linked to cancer, according to local media reports."

Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Source: Reuters [14], 06/03/2016
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"Pharmaceutical Chemicals Found in Every Stream Sampled in USGS Study" [15]

"Our waterways are filled with traces of drugs, says a new study conducted by the USGS."

Chemicals [12]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Weather Channel [16], 06/03/2016
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"At Least 33 US Cities Used Water Testing 'Cheats' Over Lead Concerns" [17]

"A Guardian investigation reveals that testing regimes similar to that of Flint were in place in major cities including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia".

Environmental Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [19], 06/02/2016
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"Scientists Just Discovered Dozens Of New Sources Of Air Pollution" [20]

"Scientists may have significantly underestimated a dangerous source of pollution in the atmosphere, new research suggests. A satellite study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, has revealed nearly 40 previously unreported major sources of sulfur dioxide emissions — a pollutant that can cause multiple harmful health and environmental impacts and even exacerbate global warming."

Air [21]
Pollution [3]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Wash Post [22], 06/01/2016
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"Canada, U.S. Warn of Eight Chemicals in Great Lakes" [23]

"Canada and the United States have identified eight substances in the water of the Great Lakes as chemicals of mutual concern under the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. These chemicals are potentially harmful to human health or the environment or both."

Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: ENS [25], 06/01/2016
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Scant Accountability For Officials in Calif. Exide Lead Contamination [26]

"California officials have talked tough about the contamination of up to 10,000 homes with lead from a battery recycling plant, calling it a regulatory failure, an environmental injustice and a public health disaster. Yet accountability for years of pollution by Exide Technologies has been scant."

Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Pollution [3]
Public [5]
California [28]
Source: LA Times [29], 05/31/2016
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"Flint, Michigan, Pipe-Replacement Cost Nearly Doubles: Newspaper" [30]

"The cost of replacing water lines in Flint, Michigan, has nearly doubled amid a health crisis from high lead levels in drinking water, the Detroit Free Press reported on Saturday."

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [24]
Source: Reuters [31], 05/31/2016
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"Philadelphia Keeps Stormwater Out Of Sewers To Protect Rivers" [32]

Green infrastructure projects in Philadelphia are helping keep sewage from polluting rivers.

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer [34], 05/31/2016
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