Tag: EPA
Millions of people across the US use well water, but very...
Gabriel Lade, Macalester College
About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source....
San Francisco is suing the EPA over how specific water pollution...
Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court will test how flexible the EPA and states can...
Toxic chemicals from Ohio train derailment lingered in buildings for months...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
On Feb. 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine,...
Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than...
Lucas Henneman, George Mason University
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than...
Fines for breaking US pollution laws can vary widely among states...
Jerry Anderson, Drake University
It’s expensive to pollute the water in Colorado. The state’s median fine for companies caught...
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...
A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew...
Bill Kovarik, Radford University
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General...
Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working...
Lupita D. Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder and Aaron Lamplugh, University of Colorado Boulder
Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with...
EXPLORING NATURE
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...
Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
