PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

Oregon regulators would gain new powers to enter private rural properties under a bill that aims to make the state government more proactive in preventing groundwater pollution. Senate Bill 1154 would ...

A 39-page amendment added to the bill Friday neutralizes the power it would have brought to state agencies to enforce pollution regulations, groups said. FILE- Gov. Tina Kotek on May 3, 2023 at the ...

GADSDEN, Ala.—The coal ash lagoon at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden was supposed to be a model for how to close ash ponds by covering them in place, a process utilities insisted would protect human ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon officials rolled out a document Friday laying out their plans for the Lower Umatilla Basin, a region suffering from groundwater that's been heavily contaminated with nitrates, ...

BUCHANAN, New York -- Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for a probe into possible groundwater contamination from the Indian Point nuclear power plant. In a statement, Schumer says the investigation ...

More than a decade ago, UC Davis released a groundbreaking report about the growing human health threat from groundwater contamination. It revealed that hundreds of thousands of Californians rely on ...

Texas agencies reported 252 new cases of groundwater contamination during 2023 in the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee annual report. The latest report compiles 2,870 open cases of groundwater ...

A new report finds nitrate contamination in Wisconsin could cost communities millions and increase health care bills. Nitrate ...

A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health identifies the hidden geological mechanisms behind ...