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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Wary of a new federal administration that seeks more environmental deregulation, several groups are suing the state Agricult…
Many people with private water supplies like wells and cisterns tend to put off testing their water until something goes wrong — an odd smell or a bad taste. Here's why that's not a good idea.
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The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association argues the EPA has left our farmers and rural communities vulnerable to toxic contamination from forever chemicals.
Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge spread on pasture as fertilizer pose a risk to people who regularly consume milk, beef and other products from those farms, in some cases raising cancer risk “several orders of magnitude” above what the Environmental Protection Agency considers acceptable, federal officials announced Tuesday. Most at risk are people who drink one quart of milk per day from dairy cows raised on pasture with the biosolids, eat one or two servings of fish a week from a lake contaminated by runoff, or drink PFAS-laden water, the draft risk assessment said. The EPA looked only at farmers and those living nearby who regularly consumed these products over years — not the broader general public.
Blue states are bracing for a battle with the Trump administration over their authority to limit tailpipe emissions, a showdown that will have…
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has changed its plans for using revenue from natural gas leasing on game lands, and a key senator thinks that…
Food processing waste is a readily available soil amendment, but haulers need to know what it’s in their tanks and where they can apply it.
Twelve projects in Bucks, Erie, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Snyder and York counties have received $3.4 million in EPA funding distributed by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
New ecological mitigation requirements are being added to certain pesticide labels to reduce pesticide runoff. Here's what you need to know.