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Ever since Jacob Leinenkugel discovered spring waters here that were pure enough to brew his famous beer, this small Wisconsin city’s devotion to clean water has been paramount.
That’s why in 1997, when Chippewa Falls utility managers detected potentially dangerous concentrations of nitrates in a well supplying city water, officials acted. They installed new filtr...
by Brian Bienkowski, The New Lede
August 6, 2026
Michigan is giving a green light to a large new concentrated dairy farm that would add millions of gallons of animal waste to a region where water quality is already suffering from manure saturation.
The
by Brian Bienkowski, The New Lede
August 4, 2026
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought and that nitrate pollution is at crisis levels in US drinking water.
The agency would not confirm the ass...
Kitchen tables with meals made from locally grown foods. Reliable electricity to power lights, refrigerators, and air conditioners. Clean water flowing from showerheads and taps, sustaining the basic sanitation that keeps individuals and their loved ones healthy.
Scenes that are perhaps taken for granted by many are being tested on a monumental scale this summer, ...
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Michigan Public Service Commission erred when it granted a key permit for the Line 5 petroleum pipeline tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac.
Among other findings in its 58-pag...