The ongoing issue with firefighting foam in water supplies continues, as Air Force officials announced last month that a base near Colorado Springs sent water laced with the toxic residue into the city’s sewer system as frequently as three times a year.
For illegally dumping waste into manholes in Fort Wadsworth, NY, and into Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, A&L Cesspool Service Corporation will have to pay $900,000 in penalties.
Almost 700 gallons of a hazardous cleaning agent was spilled at the Binghamton-Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Facility in New York last week.
The federal government is cracking down on Tennessee for what it sees as shortcomings in how the state enforces the Clean Water Act.
The U.S. Air Force disclosed last week that it spilled 150,000 gallons of water laced with perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) into the sewage system in Colorado and that it failed to warn a local wastewater utility in time to prepare for the chemical influx.
Last week, federal regulators spent four days in the Madison, WI, headquarters of the state Department of Natural Resources searching through files on state enforcement of water pollution laws.
Residents living in the Fountain, Security, and Widefield, CO, areas were informed earlier this year that toxic chemicals have been entering their drinking water for decades.
The U.S. EPA has reached a deal with a coal company owned by a Democratic gubernatorial candidate over alleged water pollution violations.
Alabama is suing a water utility in the state for alleged pollution violations, including discharging water with high levels of formaldehyde.
An influential U.S. senator is calling on Congress to block a rule proposed by federal agencies that he frames as posing a threat to water utilities.
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