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.
Women exposed to several widely used chemicals appear to face increased odds for ovarian and other types of cancers, including a doubling of odds for melanoma, according to new research funded by the US government.
Women with prior diagnoses of melanoma, ovarian cancer or uterine cancer had higher levels of “forever chemicals” and other toxic compounds in their blood, scientists determined in a new nationwide analysis.
Women exposed to several widely used chemicals appear to face increased odds for ovarian and other certain types of cancers, including a doubling of odds for melanoma, according to new research funded by the US government.
Academics including a former EPA scientist are touting what they say is a novel study that used non-targeted analysis (NTA) to identify previously untested chemicals and show at least “potential” links to health harms in pregnant women -- a step they say shows that the discipline could aid research on data-poor chemicals, a persistent hurdle for TSCA.
For decades, it was the secret behind the magic show of homemaking across the US. Applied to a pan, it could keep a fried egg from sticking to the surface. Soaked into a carpet, it could shrug off spills of red wine. Sprayed onto shoes and coats, it could keep the kids dry on a rainy day.
A coalition of academics that includes former EPA scientists says the agency’s long-awaited draft guide for crafting cumulative risk assessments (CRAs) examining the combined dangers of chemical hazards and other health stressors does not meet TSCA’s “best available science” standard and must be rewritten to be fit for regulatory use.