Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from ...

But it was lower than the maximum concentration allowed by the EPA for drinking water, a limit meant to ... of oxygen in the ...

Iowa’s major urban drinking water supplies are contaminated with levels of toxic nitrates, linked to cancer, that exceed ...

Several Kansas counties are seeing a dramatic increase in groundwater contamination. The region’s nitrate pollution comes ...

posing drinking water risks. Nitrate levels from these events exceeded EPA safety limits, highlighting the need for real-time nitrate monitoring to protect Central Valley water supplies. Heavy rains ...

“Despite the well-documented risk elevated nitrate levels pose, state officials have allowed these problems to develop and persist, and are now failing to make timely and effective progress to rein ...

Greenpeace says it is deeply concerned about levels of nitrate in rural school drinking water, as a shocking new report has revealed that rural children are twice as likely as the average New ...

Groups from Iowa and several other states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to invoke its emergency ...

With nitrate levels creeping upward regionally, utilities watch their wells closely. When drinking water becomes too contaminated, they have to take action. If they don’t have the infrastructure ...

The petition relies on state data that shows both public drinking water and private wells in the region pull from groundwater aquifers with nitrate concentration levels that “routinely exceed ...