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City, county and state elected officials condemned the state’s communication surrounding a contaminated site northeast of downtown Wichita and called for improvement going forward.

Almost 30 years after its discovery, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment conducted a health survey in several historically Black neighborhoods located above contaminated groundwater.

The city says it has been testing for PFAS chemicals annually since 2021, and none have been detected.

The state created a plan in 2003 to keep a predominantly Black neighborhood in Wichita informed about toxic groundwater in their community. It failed to follow through on several key aspects.

Chemical runoff from Midwest farm fields is contributing to the largest so-called "dead zone" on record in the Gulf of Mexico.Scientists have mapped the…

Streams and rivers in Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska and other parts of the central Great Plains are vanishing as farmers continue to pump groundwater to…