"The owners of the Vogtle nuclear power plant project in Georgia on Wednesday agreed to continue its construction, a decision reached after protracted eleventh-hour squabbling over how to share development costs threatened to scuttle the oft-delayed project that has been plagued by billions in cost overruns."
"President Trump is expected to follow through soon on a big promise to Corn Belt states, leaving his EPA chief to broker a politically risky deal with the oil industry."
"Across the Arctic, lakes are leaking dangerous greenhouse gases. And one lake is behaving very strangely."
"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."
