This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. – Former Alabama Crimson Tide linebacker Ernest Nance is stuck in his bed. He has a number of ailments, including kidney issues and skin lesions. Nance says …
In Oklahoma and Across Nation, Industrial Waste Pollutes Drinking Water
by Oklahoma Watch August 21, 2017 Updated October 28, 2019 PHOENIX – In Ringwood, New Jersey, Ford Motor Co. dumped more than 35,000 tons of toxic paint sludge onto lands occupied for centuries by the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape tribe, poisoning groundwater with arsenic, lead and other harmful chemicals. Today, more than 43 years after the dumping ended, those toxins …
St. Joseph water crisis nears an end, now residents have to figure out how to pay for its solution
BY MARK BALLARD | MBALLARD@THEADVOCATE.COM NOV 24, 2017 – 6:20 PM Comments 3 min to read St. Joseph residents soon may be able to drink water from the tap for the first time in nearly a year. Gov. John Bel Edwards issued on Dec. 16, 2016 an emergency order to not drink, brush teeth, bathe or cook with the town’s …
Federal grants help small towns with infrastructure
by Aim Admin | Jun 1, 2017 | Legislators, Media, Members Chelsea Schneider, Municipal Innovations Specialist (This is part of an ongoing series on the positive impacts federal community development funds have on local communities.) When Waterloo undertook a major storm water project, the town received funding from the federal Community Development Block Grant, a program “critical to small communities like ours,†Town Manager Tena Woenker said. …
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