Articles Tagged with ''groundwater''

Efforts like the San Fernando Valley cleanup are about more than addressing legacy contamination—they’re about maintaining access to safe, reliable drinking water for millions of people.

Residents near a quarry in southern Michigan say something has changed underground — and not in a good way.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun soil removal work at the East Troy Contaminated Aquifer Superfund site

Groundwater that supplies most of central Orange County’s drinking water has been polluted by past industrial activity.

EPA Regional Administrator Cyrus Western said the approval supports both resource development and environmental responsibility

The $12 million in grants offers important support for state and tribal programs—especially as carbon capture initiatives and industrial expansion ramp up.

Illinois is setting the pace with tough new rules to protect the Mahomet Aquifer, joining other states that are figuring out how to push carbon capture projects forward without putting critical water supplies at risk.

With 99% of Hawai‘i’s drinking water sourced from groundwater, the stakes remain high. 

The decision focuses on the Battle Springs Formation—a deep aquifer in the Great Divide Basin—and clears the way for Lost Creek ISR, LLC, to boost its underground mining efforts.

Two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas.