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The settlement potentially ends years of lawsuits over “forever chemical” contamination in the area.

Every afternoon during seventh grade basketball practice, I and everyone else on the team would make as many trips as allowed to the water fountain just outside the gym doors to gulp down enough water to keep us from passing out.  After school some days, we would ride our bikes to an old creek near … Continued

Imagine this scenario: A thief calls the local police and tells them that he’s been stealing from local homes and businesses, and that he plans to steal more. He tells the cops when and where he’s been stealing, and when and where he plans on stealing from in the future. And the cops tell him … Continued

Imagine, if you will, that your home is burglarized and you happen to catch the break-in on your surveillance video. You take it to the cops. They quickly ID the perpetrators of the crime. But instead of arresting the burglars, the cops tell you that they’re going to allow the burglars to go back to … Continued

Drink at your own risk. That is essentially the message that the Trump EPA is planning for citizens who might consume drinking water contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals. Politico reported Thursday that the EPA doesn’t plan to set limits on the amount of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) found in drinking water. That would … Continued