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Nearly half of Americans depend on groundwater for their drinking water.
Leaks are a leading cause of groundwater pollution even after more than a half-million sites have been cleaned up.
Experts say even a small hole in an underground tank can send 400 gallons of fuel a year into the ground.
Spills can also destroy habitat and kill wildlife.
But it would mean less taxpayer money needed for cleanups, the agency said. Some of the properties cleaned up since the program began got funding from federal and state brownfields programs, which encourage the cleanup and reuse of contaminated or potentially contaminated sites. The EPA last year announced a $315 million historic investment in the brownfields program, with most of the money coming from the bipartisan infrastructure deal President Joe Biden signed into law more than two years ago ..
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