This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News. Viv Tolson Wayne rang the large dinner bell on her front porch along Britt Road in St. Pauls, North Carolina. The crowd on her front lawn hushed their conversations and turned toward the 75-year-old, who wore a red T-shirt and […]
More than two months after jet fuel contaminated Piscataway Creek at Joint Base Andrews, it is still unclear how at least 22,000 gallons of the toxic liquid leaked from the sprawling air base, why it wasn’t caught sooner and where it may have gone.
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y.—The crowd grew restless at Brookhaven Town Hall on Long Island as residents voiced their concerns about groundwater contamination from a nearby landfill that has spread beneath parts of their community. At the meeting in late March, speakers criticizing the landfill’s operations were met with applause and shouts of support from the audience. Monique […]
The Australian government has filed a lawsuit against American industrial giant 3M, seeking 2 billion Australian dollars in compensation for the alleged use of forever chemicals in fire-fighting foam that has now contaminated dozens of defence bases in the country, the BBC reports. Australia’s Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said the lawsuit was the largest ever brought […]
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The warning signs were years in the making. And yet, regulators failed to heed the writing on the wall, according to Dean Naujoks. An investigator with the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Naujoks spent three years documenting what he calls a systemic failure that culminated in dual environmental catastrophes now threatening the health of the entire Potomac […]
The state in 2022 banned the use of firefighting foams laden with PFAS, so-called "forever chemicals" linked to cancer and other health problems. But four years later, the state doesn’t have a plan to get rid of the foam, leaving local fire departments stuck with it.
The company said it 'phased out' the use of PFAS in 2023, prior to which it was 'used in durable water repellent products, a small percentage of our assortment.'
The bills address toxic chemicals on produce, heavy metals in supplements and ultra-processed food
Lululemon USA is being investigated on 'whether the company has misled consumers about the safety, quality, and health impacts of its products,' the Texas attorney general said.
A new Swedish study focuses on very high levels of PFAS exposure in drinking water.
Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from Sweden. Researchers from Lund University found that prenatal exposure to very high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, in drinking water corresponded with a higher incidence of childhood asthma in a community dealing with […]
California Assemblymember Nick Schultz is leading an effort to phase out the use of pesticides containing toxic “forever chemicals” to safeguard the nation’s produce. Schultz, D-Burbank, introduced A.B. 1603 earlier this year to ban the use, sale and manufacture of PFAS pesticides in California starting in 2035. The state is the nation’s top agricultural producer, […]
The Trump administration’s unscientific dietary guidelines are a gift to the corporations driving the pesticide and factory farm crises.
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Maryland and South Carolina will have to press their cases for PFAS damages against 3M Co. in federal court, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their petition to have the lawsuits returned to their respective state courts.
In a new report that outlines a dozen high-risk pollutants given new life thanks to weakened, delayed or rescinded regulations, the Environmental Protection Network, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency staff, warns that the EPA under President Donald Trump has abandoned the agency’s core mission of protecting people and the […]
The athletes lost their shot at a medal because their skis tested positive for a speed boosting wax.