While the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a clean up standard of 70 parts per trillion for some PFAS chemicals, the Environmental Working Group says a safe standard is 1 part per trillion. 

Stats show added risk to groundwater near power plant sites

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $614-million loan to the City of San Diego for a water purification project.

Under some scenarios, a new Trump administration proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants could curtail the construction of new natural gas combined-cycle power plants by as much as 30% and increase the use of existing coal plants by 13%, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s own regulatory impact analysis on its proposal, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.