May 12, 2011--Navajo group to take uranium mine challenge to human rights...
In a last attempt to deep-six a controversial project to mine uranium near two Navajo communities in northwestern New Mexico, a Navajo environmental group is taking its fight to the global stage.read more
View ArticleJuly 30, 2011--California sets goal for limiting drinking water pollutant...
The California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the nation's first public health goal for hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing heavy metal made infamous after activist Erin Brockovich sued...
View ArticleOctober 17, 2011--Colorado oil, gas companies to launch groundwater...
Colorado oil and gas companies are preparing to launch one of the nation’s first statewide voluntary groundwater monitoring programs. The industry is hoping that the tests beginning Nov. 1 will show...
View ArticleDecember 13, 2011--Colorado approves nation's most comprehensive frack fluid...
Colorado today adopted the nation's toughest rule requiring oil and gas drillers to disclose all the chemicals used in the fracking fluids they pump down wellread more
View ArticleMarch 14, 2012--Groundwater nitrate contamination grows in California farm...
Nitrate contamination of groundwater in some of the state's most intensely farmed regions has grown worse in recent decades and will continue to spread, threatening the drinking water supplies of more...
View ArticleNovember 8, 2012--Clean-up of some U.S. contaminated groundwater sites...
At least 126,000 sites across the U.S. have contaminated groundwater that requires remediation, and about 10 percent of these sites are considered "complex," meaning restoration is unlikely to be...
View ArticleNovember 14, 2012--Fort Collins asks state for strict groundwater testing...
On what Colorado chief oil regulator Matt Lepore called an “auspicious day,” the state began hearings Wednesday on a proposal to make the state the first in the nation to require groundwater testing...
View ArticleJanuary 8, 2013--Colorado oil and gas regulators approve groundwater testing...
Oil and gas companies will be required to test the groundwater around new drilling operations in Colorado beginning May 1. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on Monday approved new rules...
View ArticleFebruary 1, 2013--Who is writing New Mexico's water regulations? (High...
The Chino copper mine near Silver City, New Mexico is one of the longest-operating mines in the West. The mine’s current owner, Freeport-McMoRan, just started mining there again in 2011 and the company...
View ArticleJune 7, 2013--NM regulators replace rule on drilling waste (Denver Post)
New Mexico is changing its regulations on managing waste from oil and gas drilling. A 51-page order issued Thursday by the state Oil Conservation Commission makes numerous changes to the so-called "pit...
View ArticleJanuary 28, 2015--Natural breakdown of petroleum may lace arsenic into...
In a long-term field study, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Virginia Tech scientists have found that changes in geochemistry from the natural breakdown of petroleum hydrocarbons underground can...
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