"The Vancouver School Board is planning to entirely eliminate the presence of lead in all school drinking water after the board voted yes to several water-safety motions at the Sept. 24 board meeting."
"The city's troubled Health Department would get a $7.6 million boost to help prevent lead poisoning under the 2019 budget plan Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett presented Tuesday at City Hall."
"Runoff from farms and feedlots has badly polluted Iowa’s waterways, more than half of which do not meet federal quality standards. Now, an unlikely coalition is calling for stricter controls to clean up the drinking water sources for millions of the state’s residents."
"When a pond dam near Marion failed during Hurricane Florence, water rushed across U.S. 501, closing the highway that connects Myrtle Beach with the interior of South Carolina."
"Conflicting federal court decisions over groundwater pollution liability have created what one law professor calls “a spaghetti jungle” that the Supreme Court must untangle."
"The Trump administration was hoping for a warm welcome just outside Motor City today as it held a public hearing on its rollback of Obama-era climate rules for cars. No such luck."
"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."
"Building work has restarted at hundreds of Chinese coal-fired power stations, according to an analysis of satellite imagery."
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday placed the head of its Office of Children’s Health Protection on administrative leave, in an unusual move that several observers said appeared to reflect an effort to minimize the role of the office."
"A railway will affect the income and existence of the reindeer herding communities in the entire area from Rovaniemi in Finland to Kirkenes in Norway."
