Health experts are urging caution regarding black plastic food containers due to the presence of toxic flame-retardant ...

When a fire burns in an urban area, it unleashes a slurry of chemicals. Scientists are trying to understand the chemistry at ...

"Ultimately, those paying the price for all of this industrial contamination are farmers and the general public." Expert ...

Two USAMRICD researchers have been awarded the federal government’s highest honor for outstanding early career scientists and ...

People were warned to ditch their black utensils after a study found the common kitchen item contained "toxic addictives" - ...

Nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire forced Claire Robinson to flee her Altadena home, she returned, donning a white hazmat ...

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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 ...

On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of and requested public comment on the draft scope ...

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 ...

Mexico-born Fabiola Menchelli created large-scale, abstract photography using toxic chemicals in a photographic darkroom — ...