Data from state testing shows that in at least one case there were 9,602 picocuries per liter for combined amounts of radium-226 and radium-228. The lowest level was 66.

Radium is formed when uranium and thorium decay in the environment. Almost all aspects of the natural environment, including soil, water, rocks, coal, plants, and food, contain some radium. According ...

Radium has long been a problem in drinking water for dozens of Wisconsin communities from Green Bay to the Illinois ... which has been endorsed by the state Department of Natural Resources, ...

Across the state, 38 utilities serving almost 25,000 Texans have radium levels above the EPA’s limit, according to a new report by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group.

Increasingly, radium in public water supplies has become a notable element for other municipalities in suburban Milwaukee — and much of the state, new research from a Wisconsin study has found.

SPRINGFIELD Nearly half a million Illinois residents might be drinking water tainted with dangerous levels of radium, 25 years after the federal government set limits on the radioactive material ...

Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York State is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink ...

The radium, along with salts such as bromide, came from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility about 45 miles east of Pittsburgh, a plant that treats wastewater from oil and gas drilling.

In 2014, the village of Sussex in southeast Wisconsin made a dismaying discovery. The radioactive element radium, a contaminant that occurs naturally in bedrock throughout the region, had seeped into ...

SILEX, Mo. — A Lincoln County community is under a state of emergency after unsafe levels of carcinogens were detected in the water. At Night Owls Café in Silex, they serve the best burger in ...

In 2014, the village of Sussex in southeast Wisconsin made a dismaying discovery. The radioactive element radium, a contaminant that occurs naturally in bedrock throughout the region, had seeped into ...