The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to improve communication with Franklin residents. People living in Franklin believe that toxic chemicals coming from the old Amphenol industrial site may be causing child cancers in the area.

About $14 million will be divided among roughly 30 projects targeting excess nutrients and storm water, which feed harmful algae blooms and otherwise degrade water quality.

Water quality trading allows someone like a farmer to get credits for reducing runoff on their land that they can then sell to buyers like wastewater treatment plants, developers, and cities.

The citys wellfield is contaminated with PCE, a cancer-causing chemical used to degrease metal and in dry cleaning.

The World Health Organization lists glyphosate as a probable carcinogen the same classification as the toxic pesticide DDT.

More than 1,000 people were forced from the West Calumet Housing Complex in 2016 after tests found high blood-lead levels in children.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a memo this week saying contamination in groundwater that feeds into rivers, streams, and lakes doesnt need to be regulated under the Clean Water Act.

EPA soil remediation began in 2016. Its cleaned up nearly 600 residential properties. There are 170 additional properties slated for cleanup.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the company emitted higher than normal levels of cadmium for eight days last year.

Trevor's Law aims to update the federal guidelines for investigating cancer clusters. But it is unclear if the law will do what the parents hope it will.