Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations is not only driving harmful climate change but is also posing dire risks to human health at levels that require aggressive private and public efforts to limit exposures, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
People with artery plaques containing microplastics are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those with plastic-free plaques, suggesting microplastics may contribute to heart disease.
Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Environmentalists are calling on EPA to broaden its draft TSCA evaluation of the flame retardant tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) to a cumulative assessment that would cover many chemicals with that use, arguing the agency’s single-chemical approach to its reviews underestimates risks and flies in the face of statutory requirements.
An invisible invasion by land, air and sea: Microscopic plastic pieces are in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink – bottled or not.
Behind many pandemic-era debates are deep divisions between two schools of thought in the world of health care.
Plastic is everywhere—even in the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. CR’s recent tests of nearly 100 foods found two types of chemicals used in plastic, bisphenols and phthalates, in a wide variety of packaged foods.
Drinking water from disposable plastic bottles may be passing hundreds of thousands of potentially harmful tiny plastic particles into our bodies, a new study finds.
On the eve of a Science Advisory Board (SAB) peer review, environmentalists, industry groups, the water sector and academics are at odds over the next steps for EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment of inorganic arsenic, with some urging the agency to make major changes to its draft while others say it should quickly finalize the document.
President Joe Biden has promised to revitalize American manufacturing. Longtime Silicon Valley residents hope hazardous chemicals won’t be coming back with it.
EPA could soon release its long-awaited proposal to rewrite the Trump-era rule governing TSCA risk evaluations of existing chemicals after it cleared White House review, teeing up what is expected to be codification of changes the Biden administration has already made to the toxics program, though some stakeholders have pushed for a broader approach.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions.
For decades, the chemical industry has shown a pattern of promoting its products to the public without disclosing their harms. We have now found that for chemicals known as PFAS, this industry practice has been harming our health once again.
While increased enforcement resulting from increased federal focus on environmental justice (EJ) issues poses risk to many businesses how (and perhaps whether) the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assesses and addresses EJ-related “cumulative risk” issues has the potential to create even more uncertainty.
Harmful "forever" chemicals are widespread in the environment, and new research hints they pose a particular health risk to women.