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Illinois Gov. George Ryan recently signed a bill that will ban the gasoline additive MTBE from Illinois beginning in 2004.

The EPA recently finalized its $111-million plan for containing and remediating contaminated ground water beneath the western side of the Aerojet Superfund site outside of Folsom, Calif.

The Senate recently voted to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put new arsenic regulations into effect immediately.

Congress recently voted to require the EPA to put new arsenic regulations into effect immediately.

Many of the frontline troops in the environmental and governmental struggles over water in the drought-stricken southeast United States will be on hand at the Southeast FOCUS Ground Water Conference, Sept. 24-25 in Atlanta.

The EPA recently issued a final rule that will provide an estimated 35 million Americans with cleaner, safer drinking water.

According to an article in the Irvine World News, the Irvine Ranch Water District Board recently approved the long-sought agreement to clean up ground water contaminated by pollutants from the former El Toro air base in Orange County, Calif.

The Indiana Water Pollution Council has delayed voting on water rules brought by the state's chief environmental agency.

The United States must invest an additional $250 billion to replace aging drinking water infrastructure over the next 30 years, reports a national study conducted by the American Water Works Association (AWAA) on the nation's drinking water infrastructure.

Council says a more science-based approach is needed to improve a federally mandated program that requires states to clean up U.S. lakes, rivers and other bodies of water.