By the end of 2025, 3M will stop making the “forever chemicals” that for decades have bedeviled the environment.
Tag: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Posted inEducation, Failure at the Faucet, Government, Health & Welfare
‘Regulatory vacuum’ exposes Wisconsin children to lead in drinking water at schools, day care centers
Gaps in federal drinking water standards enforced by the state leave numerous school and day care sites untested for lead in drinking water; numerous lead service lines remain.
Posted inFailure at the Faucet, Government, Health & Welfare
Wisconsin DNR fails to update lead testing guidance in wake of Flint crisis
Nine months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned against flushing water systems before testing for lead, the state Department of Natural Resources has not yet passed that advice on to public water systems in Wisconsin.
Posted inEnvironment, Failure at the Faucet, Health & Welfare, Water Watch Wisconsin
Wisconsin strontium levels among highest in U.S. drinking water supplies
Eastern Wisconsin has among the highest levels of the heavy metal strontium in drinking water. Limits may be on the way for this unregulated contaminant.
Posted inFailure at the Faucet, Government, Health & Welfare, Water Watch Wisconsin
First in the nation: City of Madison replaced all lead pipes
The Madison Water Utility was the first major utility in the nation to demonstrate that a full replacement of both the public and the private portions of lead service lines was possible.
Posted inFailure at the Faucet, Government, Health & Welfare, Water Watch Wisconsin
Lead pipes, antiquated law threaten Wisconsin’s drinking water quality
Experts, and even some regulators, say existing laws are failing to protect Wisconsin and the nation from harmful exposure to lead in drinking water that leaches from aging plumbing — a danger illustrated by the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Posted inEnvironment, Failure at the Faucet, Government, Health & Welfare, Water Watch Wisconsin
Despite state efforts, arsenic continues to poison many private wells in Wisconsin
An ancient poison that was detected in the late 1980s in Wisconsin’s drinking water persists despite state regulations designed to eliminate it. High-capacity wells can exacerbate the problem.
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Government, Water Watch Wisconsin
Spill response ‘inadequate’ for tar sands crude on Great Lakes
A refinery’s proposal to ship heavy crude oil from Superior across the Great Lakes has emergency responders gearing up to bolster gaps in current oil spill response plans. And the gaps are substantial, experts say.
Posted inEndocrine disruptors, Environment, Government, Health & Welfare
Environmental agencies respond to questions about endocrine disruptors
Emails from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Posted inEnvironment, Frac Sand Rush
New studies measure air, water impacts of frac sand mines
Competing studies are under way to assess air pollution from Wisconsin’s frac sand industry, and the author of one said current state law isn’t protecting people well enough. A separate study, meanwhile, will examine the impact of frac sand mines on water.
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Government, Wasted Places
Map: Brownfields nationwide
Sites that have been funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s brownfields program, as of August 2012.
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Government
Wasted Places: Slow, underfunded EPA program falls short in toxic site cleanups
The stated goals of the federal government’s Brownfields Program are to fund the cleanup of contamination, to improve the quality of life of blighted communities and to provide economic stimulus. But an investigation by nonprofit newsrooms across the country, coordinated by the Investigative News Network, found problems in every community examined.