SACRAMENTO – Tap water tasting or smelling a little different recently? The City of Sacramento says it's probably nothing to worry about. City of Sacramento Utilities staff say around this time of ...

Update: On Nov. 10, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, alleging in part that the company has been using replacement PFAS at its manufacturing facility for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New federal drinking water standards, which the Environmental Protection Agency will implement on June 25, could save thousands of ...

No level of two common PFAS compounds is safe in drinking water over a lifetime of exposure, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday as it revised drinking water health advisories ...

The compounds that Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers are using in their quest to find marine biomedicines are found in different areas of the ocean. Some compounds are ...

Pennsylvania has joined a list of growing states setting drinking water standards for a toxic chemical known as PFAS. The EPA has yet to propose nationwide limits. File photo: A number of projects are ...

Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling in it, a new study suggests. Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be ...

In the wake of cancer-causing chemicals found in groundwater nearby, and a looming visit by famed activist Erin Brockovich, tap water at three beachside schools again found a compound at extremely low ...

EASTON, Pa. - The dry air in our region might be causing drinking water in Easton to have an odd smell. The city's water authority says the odor is coming from naturally occurring compounds in the ...