Oregon regulators would gain new powers to enter private rural properties under a bill that aims to make the state government more proactive in preventing groundwater pollution. Senate Bill 1154 would ...

Leaking underground storage tanks remain a leading cause of groundwater pollution even after more than a half-million sites have been cleaned up. Roughly 81 million people live within a quarter-mile ...

Some water management practices in farming can reduce groundwater pollution and water use while maintaining farm profitability, while others may require financial incentives to be widely adopted, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Story spent five nights last week reporting on the groundwater crisis in eastern Oregon's Lower Umatilla Basin, where decades of commercial food production have contaminated the ...

LAKESIDE, Mont. — The Department of Environmental Quality is extending the public comment period on a proposed Mountain Ground Water Pollution Control System permit in Lakeside. The permit aims to ...

Legislators have just passed a groundwater protection bill that many nonprofit groups working on groundwater contamination said was too watered down to make a real difference. Gov. Tina Kotek backed ...

GADSDEN, Ala.—The coal ash lagoon at Alabama Power’s Plant Gadsden was supposed to be a model for how to close ash ponds by covering them in place, a process utilities insisted would protect human ...