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The EPA’s overly cautious approach is also leading to a backlog of new chemicals awaiting approval in the US, industry representatives claimed at the hearing. The backlog is forcing manufacturers to ...

Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine is trying to find out why people have different responses to exposures ...

A decades-long battle over toxic pollution in Parkersburg, West Virginia, has reignited as a new federal lawsuit accuses chemical giant Chemours of illegally discharging high levels of PFAS (“forever ...

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By Bobby Bascomb The ongoing Los Angeles fires have burned more than 16,000 structures, many of them full of synthetic ...

The fluoride controversy, where advocates and opponents argue in the media, is a distraction because the views of real and ...

Exposure to a myriad of chemicals, starting prior to conception and continuing until death, has likely contributed to an epidemic of non-communicable diseases seen throughout the world. In the US, it ...

Is 1,4-dioxane dangerous? Opinions vary. But that hasn't stopped cities from releasing the chemical into the drinking water of communities.