Tag: Chemicals
Regulating ‘forever chemicals’: 3 essential reads on PFAS
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a draft regulation limiting two fluorinated...
Train derailments get more headlines, but truck crashes involving hazardous chemicals...
Michael F. Gorman, University of Dayton
Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in...
Does this cause cancer? How scientists determine whether a chemical is...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
People are exposed to numerous chemicals throughout their lifetimes. These chemicals can be from...
Homes that survived the Boulder County fire hid another disaster inside...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder; Joost de Gouw, University of Colorado Boulder, and Michael Hannigan, University of Colorado Boulder
How to destroy a ‘forever chemical’ – scientists are discovering ways...
A. Daniel Jones, Michigan State University and Hui Li, Michigan State University
PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea...
Flood maps show US vastly underestimates contamination risk at old industrial...
Thomas Marlow, New York University; James R. Elliott, Rice University, and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Climate science is clear:...
What are PFAS, and why is the EPA warning about them...
Kathryn Crawford, Middlebury
“PFAS? What’s PFAS?”
You may be hearing that term in the news as...
PFAS are showing up in children’s stain- and water-resistant products –...
Kathryn Rodgers, Boston University
Even if children’s stain- or water-resistant clothes are advertised as “green” or “nontoxic,” they might...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
