Invisible Chemical Is Poisoning Thousands Of Unsuspecting Warehouse Workers
"Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it."
"Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it."
"Group claims oil firms transferred depleted wells to another company which then conspired to avoid clean-up through fraud".
"Facing intense opposition from major industries and some Democrats, the Biden administration on Thursday said it would delay the most contentious element of its plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions from power plants."
"Grease-proof food wrappers being sold in the U.S. will no longer contain toxic “forever chemicals” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday."
"A coalition of environmental advocacy groups will petition the Biden administration to propose rules that require stricter enforcement for cleaning up leftover infrastructure for offshore drilling."
"When the Hawthorne Park Landfill opened in 1977, it transformed everyday life for residents of Carverdale, a historically Black neighborhood in northwest Houston. Myra Jefferson has seen pests and roaches from the dump multiply over the decades and remembers yellow dust from the rot sticking to everything."
"Waste produced by the public will surge by 2050, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage through biodiversity loss, climate change and deadly pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report on Wednesday."
"The US government has suspended its effort to survey cryptocurrency mining operations over their ballooning energy use following a lawsuit from an industry that has been accused by environmental groups of fueling the climate crisis."
"Cash-strapped city water systems are struggling to envision how they’ll pay to filter “forever chemicals” out of drinking water in light of an EPA rule that could be finalized as soon as March."
"Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses."