A University of Tulsa chemistry professor may elevate the status of a popular collegiate beverage, saying that beer may be a low-tech, low-cost solution to clean the orange-colored, iron-contaminated waters of one of the country's most urgent Superfund sites.
The EPA has ordered the General Electric Co., based in Fairfield, Conn., to clean up soil and ground water contamination at the Fletcher's Paint Works Superfund site in Milford, N.H.
In an effort to reduce environmental damage from acid mine drainage, EPA is taking comment on new data concerning remining practices that retrieve coal from abandoned mines.
Former El Paso mayor Carlos Ramirez recently took his oath of office as of commissioner of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation purchased water from two irrigation districts and sent it to the drought-stricken Klamath Basin, Ore., the winter home of hundreds of bald eagles.
The California Department of Health Services recently issued a report that presents an overview of the results of public drinking water supply monitoring from 1984 through 2000.
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