The Minnesota-based company 3M has announced it will phase out its use of PFAS -- known as “forever chemicals” -- because they don’t break down in the environment, and they linger in people’s bodies for years. But the question of how to clean them up could persist for years to come.
Articles Tagged: Mississippi River
By Juanpablo Ramirez Franco - WNIJ
Environmental News Dec. 26, 2022 6:00 am35d ago
While the presence of the black carp in part of the Mississippi River basin has been previously reported, the research concludes that the population is now self-sustaining.
By Josh Rosenberg - The Lens
Environmental News Nov. 28, 2022 6:00 am63d ago
A record-breaking drought throughout the Mississippi River basin is finally beginning to ease, federal officials say.
By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch; and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WNIJ Northern Public Radio
Environmental News Nov. 20, 2022 1:12 pm70d ago
This fall, the towns and rural farmsteads along the Mississippi River received alarming news about their drinking water. Chemicals from a large 3M factory north of Cordova found a way into the river and their wells.
By Chloe Johnson - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Environmental News Nov. 8, 2022 6:00 am83d ago
The requirement, part of an EPA administrative order, comes as the agency is accelerating its response to so-called “forever chemicals.”
By Madeline Heim - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Environmental News Nov. 7, 2022 6:00 am84d ago
City leaders shared wide-ranging impacts of dry conditions at a news conference last week hosted by the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative -- from barge slowdowns to water main breaks caused by shifting dry ground.
By Connor Giffin - Louisville Courier Journal
Environmental News Oct. 20, 2022 6:00 am102d ago
States across the Mississippi River basin are experiencing drought more commonly found in the arid Southwest, federal data show. The dryness has disrupted agriculture, beached barges and upset ecosystems across large swaths of the Midwest, Great Plains and beyond, in epic proportions — even as the region also sees climate change-induced increases in rainfall.
By Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette; Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media; Halle Parker, WWNO-New Orleans Public Radio
Environmental News Oct. 11, 2022 10:42 am110d ago
As rainfall has increased — a symptom of our warming atmosphere — the frequency of flooding has intensified. Now, river-adjacent communities like Cedar Rapids are turning away from flood mitigation to instead make room for the water.
By Bennet Goldstein - Wisconsin Watch
Iowa Water Quality Oct. 8, 2022 6:00 am114d ago
The report focuses only on releases from industry - not farm and animal feeding operations, which exacerbate the pollution problem.
A large cruise ship is making its way down the Mississippi River with stops in several Iowa cities.
Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco - WNIJ-Northern Public Radio
Environmental News Sep. 2, 2022 6:00 am150d ago
At least 25 destructive species — like water fleas and bloody red shrimp — are inching closer to the Mississippi River Basin.
By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch, and Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian
Iowa Water Quality Aug. 29, 2022 9:17 am153d ago
Fishers on the Tennessee side of the Mississippi River are told: don’t eat the fish because they may contain high levels of contaminants. But on the other side of the same river, in Arkansas, fishers find no such warnings. Those state-issued fish consumption advisories for the Mississippi River make it difficult to make informed health decisions, experts say.
By Madeline Heim and Caitlin Looby - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Environmental News Jul. 31, 2022 6:00 am183d ago
Like the Great Lakes initiative, it would operate within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and provide hundreds of millions in federal funding to groups throughout the 10 states including Iowa along the river.
By Madeline Heim - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Environmental News Jul. 3, 2022 6:00 am212d ago
The report, released last month, shows increasingly wetter conditions in the Upper Mississippi River over the past few decades, a trend that — spurred by climate change and land-use practices — looks likely to continue.