The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.

Oil had not flowed through the pipeline since a 2015 rupture caused an environmental disaster on California’s Central Coast. It sets up a new fight between the Trump administration and state officials.

Last year, France’s National Assembly approved a bill “to outlaw the production, import, or sale of cosmetics containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS),” and that law came into effect this month, February 2026. This means that any cosmetics that use PFAS instead of alternatives that already exist will be included in the ban which also […]

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