"ANN ARBOR, MI - Ann Arbor officials are taking additional steps to ensure city residents are drinking safe water, spending another $850,000 to try to better filter out harmful PFAS chemicals."
"The weedkiller glyphosate decreases microorganisms in honey bee guts and these changes leave them more susceptible to death, according to a new study."
"A federal appeals court has ordered EPA to begin enforcing an Obama-era chemical plant safety standard that was stalled by the Trump administration.
"PASCO, WA -- Hazardous liquids are leaking and contaminating groundwater, and there is evidence that another fire may be smoldering underground in part of a landfill just east of Pasco city limits."
"Chewable products that protect dogs and cats against fleas can cause neurological problems such as stumbling or seizures, and pet owners need more warning, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday."
"State wants to improve wildlife habitat in St. Johns Marsh but some worry about possible impacts from using herbicide".
"The Vermont Department of Health recommends every school test its water for lead after the state found contamination in 16 schools."
"The people who wrote an ordinance banning the aerial spraying of pesticides in western Oregon last year aren’t professional environmental advocates."
"The Environmental Protection Agency is assessing the vulnerability of at least 40 toxic waste sites that could be damaged by Hurricane Florence in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. But that review does not include dozens of inland Superfund sites that potentially could be flooded by the storm’s fluctuating path."
"Dozens of toxic coal ash piles across the Southeast are in the path of what is forecast to be days of torrential rains and flash flooding from Hurricane Florence."
