Salon.com > National Science Foundation http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 13:43:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Federal government poisons America’s wells http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/federal_government_poisons_americas_wells/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/federal_government_poisons_americas_wells/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:51:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13121742 ProPublica Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation's drinking water.

In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions in Western states now stricken by drought and increasingly desperate for water.

 EPA records show that portions of at least 100 drinking water aquifers have been written off because exemptions have allowed them to be used as dumping grounds.

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