The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will offer an update Tuesday about site cleanup for Iola’s lead-contaminated properties. EPA Region 7 representatives will discuss the Former United Zinc Superfund Site and offer information about residential soil…

Iola water customers recently received a survey included in their water bill. City staff are asking residents to assist them in gathering information regarding the plumbing in their homes. This is the latest requirement the…

USD 257 welcomed officials from the Environmental Protection Agency who presented a $690,000 ceremonial check Thursday for the purchase of two electric buses and a charging station.  School board members in June approved an EPA…

USD 257 is cautiously entering the electric vehicle world.  School board members approved an EPA program that will provide two electric school buses at significant cost savings. The district will pay $70,772 for the two…

The EPA could soon face a lawsuit for not protecting farmers from “forever chemicals.” Biosolids are a type of treated sewage byproduct that make a nutrient-rich fertilizer, but PFAS are slipping through the cracks of…

Small spills of pollutants no longer have to be reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment under a new state policy. Companies or other responsible parties used to have to alert the agency…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards proposed by the Environmental Protection…

The yellow buses lined up after school in the Ralls County School District look nearly identical. Except two of them aren’t like the others: they run on batteries. “It’s not as loud as the other…