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05/19/2018 / By Edsel Cook

EPA: Soil in the upper American Fork Canyon contain high levels of arsenic, lead, mercury, and other harmful metals

The American Fork Canyon in Utah is drawing in more people who enjoy its great beauty. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is concerned about the abandoned mines that dot the upper canyon. In a report from The Salt Lake Tribune, the soils around those sites have been contaminated with heavy metals like arsenic, […]

02/13/2018 / By David Williams

The EPA has a new tool for dealing with and preventing mining disasters: robots

If you thought oil spills were bad, you should know the mine spills aren’t any better, as far as containment and cleanup are concerned. It has pretty much the same exact set of problems as oil spills, only they occur first on land, then only later spread to rivers and other bodies of water. While […]

02/16/2016 / By Greg White

How to send a water sample to EPA Watch

Two citizen scientists who head a non-profit forensic food lab in central Texas have joined forces to stop lead poisoning in municipal water supplies across the United States. Forensic food scientist Mike Adams and a former NASA contract scientist are conducting a nationwide scientific analysis of heavy metals in American tap water, and they need […]

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