Water Quality

Minnesota Residents – Who’s Polluting Your Water?

Posted by on October 12, 2009 at 11:22 am

The New York Times has compiled a dabase with data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to discharge pollutants and collected responses from states regarding compliance. The information in this database comes from the Environmental Protection Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board.   Click here to see where Minnesota pollution comes [...]

EPA Could Place Lower Limit on Atrazine

Posted by on October 9, 2009 at 9:24 am

WASHINGTON — The US Environmental Protection Agency announced on October 7 the that they will launch a comprehensive new evaluation of atrazine, one of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States, to determine its effects on humans. The EPA’s plan calls for a September 2010 presentation of its evaluation, at which time [...]