Air pollution detected at some of the lowest levels in the US can prompt fatal heart attacks and strokes, according to alarming new findings published in the JAMA Open Network on Friday. Authors of the study — one of the largest of its kind with data collected from 3.7 million Californians — blasted current federal … Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the site of its derailment on Tuesday, nearly three weeks after the company’s train leaked toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. Federal regulators stepped in to ensure Norfolk Southern exhausts all available measures to sanitize the air and water contaminated during the Feb. 3 train … Read more
Residents living near the site of the East Palestine train derailment are blasting the Biden Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their response to the crisis. Local and federal officials have insisted tests show the air and water supply is safe to breathe and drink following the Feb. 3 incident — where authorities … Read more
RESERVE, La. — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery. But it’s the Denka chemical plant … Read more