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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, […]

03/11/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Storm water runoff heavily contaminated by city pollution, compromising the immune systems of fish, damaging their ability to survive

In the winter of 2015, members of Jennifer McIntyre’s team drove all the way up to Seattle to take samples of stormwater by the Highway 520 bridge across Lake Washington. McIntyre, a researcher from Washington State University, made sure that they had samples whenever it rained during the eight-week period. McIntyre’s team made 25 trips in […]

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