The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity:...
It’s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake
The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas—a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014—has been...
Water use in the USA, 2015
Although thermoelectric and irrigation are the dominant categories nationally, the county breakdown reveals regional variation. In the map below, you...
A great water partner? An agency named geology: USGS
Who’s this, hard at work assessing water resources? [Metropolitan Planning Council] uses research and data from the U.S. Geological Survey...
U.S. rivers are getting saltier, potentially compromising drinking water
photo: Allison Cekala The bomb cyclone that hit the northeastern United States last week left roadways and vehicles caked in...