Bradford Island is being proposed for the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund site list, a win for tribal communities that depend on nearby waters for subsistence fishing.
For the second time in four years, justices with the country's top environmental court will hear arguments for and against a plan to pull toxics from the Housatonic River.
More testing for PCB-contaminated sediments that possibly moved downstream during recent flooding must be done along the Little Thunder Brook and the Valatie Kill, Town Supervisor David Fleming said Monday.
Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit must pay $185 million to three teachers who blamed their brain injuries on exposure to the company’s PCBs at a school in Washington state.
Governor Charlie Baker is urging the US Environmental Protection Agency to place the Lower Neponset River on its Superfund National Priority List, citing the “serious nature” of the water’s contamination.
In 50 years, there might be no more polar bears in far northern archipelagos like Svalbard, says leader of the international Polar Bear Specialist Group.
The gathering comes at a particularly tense time for the community, with local petitioners pressing the town government to exit the controversial cleanup plan reached in 2020.
The painkiller, taken by half of pregnant women worldwide, could be contributing to rising rates of reproductive system problems and neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism.
"If we look at the rate of carbon emissions, most is emitted by the developed and industrialized countries, but the problem is poor countries like Bangladesh are the main sufferers."
