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Retired Environmental Protection Agency employees rallied outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center in Clifton on Earth Day to support the agency and current workers.

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Robert Bilott's battle against PFAS contamination was dramatized in the 2019 film "Dark Waters." Now, years after that legal battle, the EPA is strictly regulating the chemicals.

The grant, provided through the EPA's Brownfields Job Training Program, will go toward the recruiting and training of 40 local students to enter environmental jobs.

The Inflation Reduction Act, which invests $369 billion in projects that reduce climate change, also spells out specific authority for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“We are leading the way; our program here in Cincinnati has been deemed a model for the country,” said Greater Cincinnati Water Works Director Cathy Bailey. “I have the opportunity now to share that information with others so that we know generations to come will have lead-free environments that they live in.”

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to know what people think of a plan to deal with dirty groundwater in Milford. An aquifer is contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and was placed on the Superfund national priorities list 10 years ago.

Testing wastewater is an easy and relatively cheap way to detect disease in a community. Even though scientists were unable to effectively use it as an…

The U.S. EPA Water Research Lab in Cincinnati is partnering with the Metropolitan Sewer District to look for the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)…