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Though utilities’ mission is to provide clean water, their trade groups for decades have often fiercely opposed initiatives to improve quality

Language in Senate defense bill is probably first step to shield widely used toxic F-gases from regulation

A new survey of lead pipes across the United States estimates that Florida has more than any other state

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, are demanding answers amid fears over health effects of toxic chemical spill.

Workers say it likely got derailed because of its excessive weight and size

Chemicals commonly known as PFAS are tied to cancer and other health conditions.

Lobbying industry flexed muscle to ensure bills that aimed to set stricter standards on PFAS compounds went nowhere

JACKSON, Miss. — In mid-September, Howard Sanders bumped down pothole-ridden streets in a white Cadillac weighed down with water bottles on his way to a home in Ward 3, a neglected neighborhood that he called “a war zone.”

Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants