Communities where drinking water surpassed recommended maximum levels of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” had higher rates of digestive, endocrine, respiratory, and mouth and throat cancers…
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The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that state environmental regulators can require operators of industrial dairies, poultry and hog feeding operations to improve their handling of…
Ractopamine, used to promote rapid growth in factory farm animals, harms the animals and is known to cause heart and respiratory issues in people who…
BY ANTONIA ZIMMERMANN The city is ‘exceptionally bad’ at preventing sewage from polluting its waterways. This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities,…
By GABRIELLE REYES The Chinese government is allowing toxic wastewater from a state-run power plant in northeastern China’s Liaoning province to flow into the Bohai Sea…
Large amounts of plastic waste appeared in waves along the Durban beach coastline in South Africa as plastic bottles and other litter was seen being…