drinking water

Melting Ice Could Unleash Deadly Bacteria Lain Dormant for Millennia

Melting Ice Could Unleash Deadly Bacteria Lain Dormant for Millennia

Deep in the soils of permafrost lurks unknown and archaic bacteria that could potentially spawn viruses and disease that the human race has never been exposed to, at least, not in the recent history of penicillin. But with climate change rapidly heating up the poles, the permafrost is melting away, and we may have to […]

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    Family-Run Paper Wins Pulitzer for Exposing Big Ag Corruption

    Family-Run Paper Wins Pulitzer for Exposing Big Ag Corruption

    By Nika Knight Prestigious Pulitzer Prizes on Monday were awarded to investigations that tackled President Donald Trump, Big Ag and international offshore tax havens, rewarding reporters that took on today’s powers-that-be. The Pulitzer Prizes this year came “in the face of a combative stance from President Trump, who has called the news media ‘the enemy […]

    Texas Town Opposes BLM’s Plan to Frack Public Lands

    Texas Town Opposes BLM’s Plan to Frack Public Lands

    The mayor of Brenham signed Monday the city council’s unanimous resolution opposing the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plans to auction lands beneath and around Lake Somerville for oil and gas development. The resolution cited concerns that loss or contamination of the lake’s water supply would be “catastrophic” for its residents. Lake Somerville is the […]

    Shell, Dow Hid Cancer-Causing Chemical in Pesticides, Contaminating Drinking Water for Millions

    Shell, Dow Hid Cancer-Causing Chemical in Pesticides, Contaminating Drinking Water for Millions

    For decades, Shell and Dow hid a highly potent cancer-causing chemical in two widely used pesticides, contaminating drinking water for millions of people in California and beyond, according to lawsuits detailed in a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The chemical 1,2,3-trichloropropane or TCP, was formerly an unwanted and ineffective byproduct in Dow’s […]

    Popular Farm Pesticide Found in Drinking Water

    Popular Farm Pesticide Found in Drinking Water

    After evidence of pesticides killing off pollinators surfaced in 2016, scientists went on a quest to see if pesticides were seeping into anything else. Now, in an unprecedented study, the U.S. Geological Survey and University of Iowa reported findings of neonicotinoids—a class of pesticide used to kill off insects—in treated drinking water, marking the first […]

    Flint Residents Now Pay Full Price for Water They Still Can’t Drink

    Flint Residents Now Pay Full Price for Water They Still Can’t Drink

    By Nika Knight The state of Michigan has declared that Flint’s drinking water “meets all federal water quality standards,” ending a program Wednesday that reimbursed residents for most of their water costs in the wake of the lead crisis. Yet Flint residents still can’t drink the water and the announcement was met with outrage. 1,700 […]

    Trump Orders EPA to Dismantle Clean Water Rule

    Trump Orders EPA to Dismantle Clean Water Rule

    By Lauren McCauley Throwing the weight of his office behind the nation’s biggest polluters, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing his administration to dismantle the Obama-era Clean Water Rule. Surrounded by other foes of environmental regulation, including the newly confirmed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt, the president declared […]