Category: Groundwater contamination

You may have heard that President Obama is trying to get himself re-elected. What you may not have heard is what US EPA Chief, Lisa Jackson, is doing to help him. Last month, the President sent out an invitation to attend his money-raising events in San Francisco. The invitation said that, by giving...

This is about the importance of getting your well water tested, immediately, when there is even the possibility that it is contaminated. North Stamford, Connecticut, and Rockford, Illinois are half a country apart and have many other things that would seem to distinguish them from one another. But t...

Texas recently became the first state to require drillers to disclose the chemicals they use to extract petroleum and gas from rock formations. See, Texas Fracking Bill While the fluids injected deep into the earth to recover oil and gas consist primarily of water and sand, they include mixtures of ...

After Congress passed the Superfund law in 1980, ostensibly to set up a system to clean up the most dangerous hazardous waste sites in the country, EPA created a system to evaluate the sites most deserving of attention in the form of government money for cleanup. That system, called the Hazard Ranki...