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Reuters Exclusive: Chevron Phillips Chemical failed to disclose years of U.S. benzene imports
A Chevron Corp and Phillips 66 petrochemical joint venture imported significant quantities of the toxic chemical benzene into the United States for several years without ...
Chemours Can Skip Testing 54 ‘Forever Chemicals,’ EPA Says (2)
The EPA has rejected a request from six North Carolina environmental health groups to force Chemours Co. to generate toxicity, human health, and other data ...
Environmental watchdog group alleges EPA allows company to violate environmental law
For full report, click here HIGH POINT, N.C. (WWAY) — The toxic pollution watchdog, Center for Environmental Health, claimed today that companies have been importing thousands ...
Groups Launch Legal Fight Against Environmental Review Rules (2)
Two coalitions of environmental groups took the first legal shots Wednesday at the Trump administration’s rewrite of federal environmental review regulations.
Wild Virginia, the Congaree Riverkeeper, ...
US EPA: Covid-19 enforcement policy ‘not a license to pollute’
NGOs, however, remained critical of the agency’s action. The EPA is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic \"to push through something that in a normal ...
Toxic chemical secretly dumped in El Cajon is making residents sick
EL CAJON, Calif. — Several El Cajon residents believe a toxic chemical in the ground is making them sick. The Department of Toxic Substances Control ...
Four groups hosted GenX meeting at Tar Heel Middle
Next week’s gather is being held in close proximity to the Chemours plant which has been under the microscope since June 2017 when the StarNews ...
EPA considers new rule with PFAS; comment period yet to open
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), as it is known in the industry, provides the public “with information about the use of certain chemicals by tracking ...
Environmental Groups Call for Government to Label ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminating 400 Military Sites as ‘Hazardous Substances’’
By DANIEL MORITZ-RABSON, Newsweek Eighty-two environmental organizations expressed concern on Tuesday that Senator Jim Inhofe had stripped language about so-called “forever chemicals” suspected to affect 400 ...
Juul Once Looked Too Big to Fail. Lawsuits and Federal Regulations Are Changing That
By Jamie Ducharme, Time Magazine It’s been a rough fall for Juul. After weeks of intensifying scrutiny from federal regulators, resulting in plans to pull ...
Listen to CEH’s Michael Green on NPR’s “All Things Considered” Discuss Landmark JUUL Settlement
Listen to NPR interview CEH’s Michael Green. By Allison Aubrey, National Public Radio E-cigarette maker Juul Labs announced Thursday it will suspend sales of most ...
Juul agrees to restrict youth advertising
New guidelines will set limits on how the embattled e-cigarette company can target young people with its product By Kari Paul, The Guardian The settlement, ...
How to keep your children’s clothes free of toxins
By Keon Broadnax, Writer and Robert Walko, Editor, WMC Channel 5 Action News ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Adidas, Burberry and Disney are just a few brands ...
Ruffalo says he helped make activism sexy as he takes lawyer role
Mark Ruffalo’s new film tells the story of environmental lawyer Rob Billot who took on DuPont over contaminated water from one of its plants By ...
We spend a third of our lives at work. Shouldn’t office furniture be nontoxic?
A new collection by architect David Rockwell uses wool and felt instead of plastic and foam. BY ELIZABETH SEGRAN, Fast Company While we devote a lot ...