CASCO, Wis. - When Tyler Frye purchased his home in 2020, he saw the Casco area in Kewaunee County as the perfect place for him and his fiancée to start a family. The house was new, in a just-built ...

The proposed bill would require the DNR to tell county and tribal health departments about water contamination so they can ...

PRATT —Nitrate pollution has forced a central Kansas town to shut off two wells that make up nearly one-quarter of its total permissible water supply. The state of Kansas will help Pratt afford the ...

Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from fertilizers ending up in groundwater, according to a recent study from researchers ...

The Yakima Health District will survey more than 500 residents about nitrate contamination in Lower Yakima Valley groundwater as part of a pilot project. The survey aims to collect information on ...

Nitrate contamination is endangering Wisconsin’s freshwater drinking supply, creating a public health crisis according to the ...

Manure from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), fertilizer for agricultural crops, and waste from septic tanks all add nitrates to soils and groundwater. In many places throughout the ...

Several groups are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to take emergency action to reduce nitrate levels in groundwater in eight southeast Minnesota counties. Eleven national and local ...

Articles in this project are edited by Carey Gillam, managing editor of The New Lede. Responding to pervasive farm-related toxic water pollution, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has directed ...

A committee tasked with reducing groundwater pollution in Morrow and Umatilla counties is restructuring to address mounting concerns over hazardous nitrate contamination in local drinking water. On ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality fined the Port of Morrow $1.3 million Tuesday for repeated wastewater violations that contaminated the groundwater in surrounding counties. State ...