16 cities sue manufacturer of atrazine weed-killer to clean up contaminated drinking water

By Danielle Ivory 
of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund

[This is an excerpt from a story published online March 8, 2010, on Huffington Post]

A coalition of communities in six Midwestern states filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to force the manufacturer of a widely-used herbicide to pay for its removal from drinking water.

Atrazine, a weed-killer sprayed primarily on cornfields, can run off into rivers and streams that supply municipal water systems. As the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reported in a series of articles last fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to notify the public that atrazine had been found at levels above the federal safety limit in drinking water in at least four states.

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