Category: Public health
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U.S. Steel dumps more toxic chromium near Lake Michigan, faces lawsuit
Six months after U.S. Steel dumped a plume of toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary, the company quietly reported another spill at the same northwest Indiana plant and asked state environmental regulators to keep it secret, according to newly released documents. The 56.7 pounds of chromium released in late October by the company’s Midwest…
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Did a huge Gillette water project frack-up rural wells?
Michael Cranston’s family has ranched in Carlile since 1904. The rolling pine- and spruce-dotted Black Hills make Carlile — a quiet crossroads community between Moorcroft and Devil’s Tower — far more hospitable than the hardscrabble sagebrush plains stretching west toward Wyoming’s coal capital, Gillette. Also attractive to Cranston and his ancestors was a seemingly bountiful…
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EBMUD joins new round of water testing for lead at Oakland schools
Officials with the East Bay Municipal Utility District on Thursday [Nov. 9, 2017 —ed.] will start testing the water at all 86 schools in the Oakland Unified School District, after lead was found in some of the schools’ drinking fountains. (video: Allie Rasmus reports, Media: KTVU) In an effort to protect students and allay rising…
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Nitrates stored in rocks ‘nail in coffin’ for artificial fertilizers
The Manawatu gorge. Photo: 123rf A new report showing nitrates can accumulate in rocks then leach into waterways — leading to long-term pollution — is another nail in the coffin for artificial nitrate fertilisers, an academic says. A paper published by researchers at the British Geological Survey has found vast quantities of nitrate across the…
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PFAS1 found in drinking water wells in unexpected places
Image: A PFAS water well result for a home in Courtland Township tested [by] Pace Analytical and sampled by Gordon Water Systems. (Courtesy) GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI — Katey Morse was wondering about cases of cancer among her neighbors when she decided to have her home’s drinking water well tested for fluorochemicals. Morse doesn’t live…
