My house didn’t burn but ash from the L.A. fires fell in my yard. Can I eat from my garden? Is my soil safe?
Ash from urban wildfires is potentially full of heavy metals and other toxins. Here's a guide for what to do if ash is ...
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EPA Finishes Risk Evaluation of 1,4-Dioxane under TSCA, Initiates Risk-Management Actions
Over the last six years, our firm has written extensively about 1,4-Dioxane, from U.S. EPA’s proclamations to state laws and regulations, ...
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EPA and OSHA Renew Cooperation With Memorandum of Understanding on Toxic Substances Control Act
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have long cooperated ...
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Bacteria found to eat forever chemicals -- and even some of their toxic byproducts
A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.
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EPA Proposing to Expand Toxic Release Inventory Reporting Relating to PFAS
EPA has successfully added certain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the toxic release inventory (TRI) list of chemicals ...
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EPA proposes restrictions on toxic pesticide usage on fruit: 'What we really need is reinstatement of the full ban'
"You have to go through a scientific advisory panel review, get input from the secretary of agriculture, and there are ...