Coal-fired power plants discharge pollutants such as selenium, mercury, arsenic, nickel, bromide, chloride, and iodide, nutrient pollution, and total dissolved solids.
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services will provide a one-time rebate to private well users for up to $5,000 for the installation of PFAS treatment or up to $10,000 for a service connection to a public water system.
The primary PFAS detected were disubstituted polyfluoroalkyl phosphates (diPAPs) -- compounds that can convert to more stable PFAS such as perfluorooctanoic acid, which is potentially carcinogenic.
Trucks carry about twice as much hazardous materials as trains, but the number of reported incidents, including spills, injuries and evacuations, is far higher.
Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in Ohio, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed on a major highway outside Tucson, Arizona.
These grants will enable communities to improve local water infrastructure and reduce emerging contaminants in drinking water by implementing solutions such as installing necessary treatment solutions.
The rising need for organic and affordable methods of wastewater treatments on a small scale and large scale is fueling the growth of the global soil scape filter technology.
Pathfinders Resource Conservation and Development, Inc., was awarded $300,000 for three AMD projects selected through the merit review process for federal funding opportunities.
Researchers studied over a decade of photographic records of individual whales and determined that belugas in Alaska's Cook Inlet have relatively low rates of birth and survival, which are both likely contributing to the population’s decline.
The beluga whale population in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, which connects Anchorage to the North Pacific Ocean, is listed as endangered and has declined by over 75% from about 1,300 whales in the late 1970’s to fewer than 300 today.