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Dumping toxic oil and gas wastewater into unlined pits—How is this still a thing?
For some reason, California STILL allows oil and gas companies to dump their toxic wastewater in open and unlined pits.
The California Water Commission Needs to Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room
You know that feeling when there’s something that really needs discussing, but nobody wants to talk about it?
Virginia Gives Dominion a Free Pass to Pollute
In January the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) issued Dominion Power two permits to drain over 300 million gallons of toxic coal ash wastewater into the Potomac and James River.
It is Time to Start Talking About our Hidden Infrastructure (and unhiding some if it, too)
How Drinking Water Standards are Created in California
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency establishes federal standards for drinking water contaminants that each state must enforce. These standards determine the maximum concentration allowable for a specific contaminant in drinking water at the tap. States must comply with these standards, but also have the option to adopt more stringent standards, or develop standards regulations for contaminants that the federal government has not acted on (perchlorate is a good example of such a standard). A state cannot set a drinking water standard that is less protective than the US EPA.
In California