Initial testing at the property of a man who owns the Madison Heights site where toxic green "ooze" emerged on Interstate 696 last month does not show contaminants from that operation, state officials announced Wednesday.
The Department of Defense is polluting the environment with toxic chemicals by continuing to incinerate a vast stockpile of firefighting foam in a move environmentalists say is in breach of new regulations.
Dr Jenny Goodman shares tips to get well and stay well at a time when we're constantly exposed to toxic chemicals. Since the Industrial revolution, we have synthesised 80,000 artificial chemicals.
The Sag Harbor School District removed about 300 tons of soil from behind the Sag Harbor Learning Center in May, and it tested positive for the presence of arsenic.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Utah regulators have sufficiently crafted a plan to control regional haze by requiring pollution control technologies that will reduce fine particulate pollution from a pair of coal-fired power plants.
Aclima is working with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to develop a hyperlocal pollution map of San Francisco to help enforce and adjust regulations.
Melburnians are told to prepare for a possible return to the worst-rated air quality today, as smoke from bushfires threatening communities drifts across the state.
The air quality in Melbourne's suburbs drops to the worst possible rating of hazardous this morning, as smoke from bushfires in East Gippsland and the north-east continues to blanket the state.
Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu, a region fed by a tributary of China's heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious "cancer villages".
As Michigan continues its investigation into toxic green ooze found gushing on to a metro Detroit freeway last month, a group of lawmakers are seeking federal help, as well.
California has voluntarily withdrawn 43 state plans to fight air pollution that the U.S. EPA identified several months ago as problematic, an EPA spokesman confirmed.
Whether rural Pakistan or the Salinas Valley, neglect and injustice pervade farm work. Environmental scientists, policymakers and citizens need to step up for the workers who feed our nation.
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The brain-harming metal is discharged directly into the river and carried to it on air currents. Some argue authorities are doing too little to stop both routes of pollution.
