pollution

The situation has left local officials in a dilemma: they want to reassure people about their drinking water, even as they face unanswered questions about health risks and who will pay to clean up the contamination.

Burning fossil fuels has created a massive, global problem: climate change. New research from Washington University finds these fuel sources also have serious health consequences.

Lee County is taking legal action against the owners of several homes near Chatfield Lake in an attempt to prevent future pollution of the lake.The county…

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) released the state's first ever Nutrient Loss…

Kirk Hanlin calls soil, "dirt where you want it." Hanlin, assistant chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), grew up on the banks of…

The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability and the group Downstream Strategies have issued a report saying the coal industry is actually a drain on the…

The Illinois Pollution Control Board found that the coal mine near Industry violated its water pollution permit more than 600 times.Tri States Public…

Under a recent class-action lawsuit, agricultural chemical company Syngenta will have to pay cities and towns across the Midwest for contaminating water…

The US EPA has agreed to allow Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources to relax its rules when it comes water pollution enforcement.Missouri has gotten…

The company which operates the Industry Coal mine recently was found to have committed over six hundred water pollution violations. Springfield Coal also…