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 ...

For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal officials outlined plans to clean up half-century-old groundwater pollution under central Phoenix during a meeting with community members on Nov. 13. Officials from the Environmental ...

BOARDMAN, Ore. — Oregon's drought crisis tends to grab headlines as large parts of the state face increasingly meager water supplies. But there's a separate water problem impacting thousands of ...