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California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (724+ words) California Assemblymember Nick Schultz is leading an effort to phase out the use of pesticides containing toxic "forever chemicals" to safeguard the nation's produce." Schultz, D-Burbank, introduced A. B. 1603 earlier this year to ban the use, sale and manufacture of PFAS pesticides…...
Chemical Manufacturing Made New Jersey the "PFAS Toilet for the Country
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (1110+ words) From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio's environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Shawn M. La Tourette, New Jersey's commissioner of environmental protection." Last month, New Jersey officials announced that they had reached a record-breaking $2 billion…...
The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey's Most Contaminated River
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (1747+ words) Isiah Cruz is alone on the banks of the Passaic River'in North Ironbound, just east of Newark, New Jersey'hacking away at a bundle of tall, leafy plants. It is a hot, muggy Sunday afternoon, hazy from Canadian wildfires. He stands…...
Pharmaceutical Pollution Is Widespread Across the World's Waterways
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (744+ words) A new modeling study estimates that every year, thousands of tons of the most-used antibiotics are released into the world's rivers from human consumption alone'and 11 percent of them reach the world's oceans or inland sinks. Researchers have also discovered widespread…...
Illinois Communities Grapple With "Forever Chemicals" in Their Drinking Water
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (710+ words) The warnings came in the mail this spring to 47 community water systems serving more than 400, 000 Illinois residents: Elevated levels of harmful PFAS, better known as "forever chemicals," had been found in their drinking water. The notice, mailed by the Illinois…...
Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel "Forever Chemicals" Into Waterways Nationwide
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (813+ words) Harmful "forever chemicals" flow from wastewater treatment plants into surface water across the U. S. , according to a new report by a clean-water advocacy group. Weekslong sampling by the Waterkeeper Alliance both upstream and downstream of 22 wastewater treatment facilities in 19 states saw…...
N. C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900, 000 People
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (1745+ words) ASHEBORO, N. C. Boxy, gunmetal gray buildings loom over a labyrinth of ducts and tubes and catwalks, beyond which 100 train cars loll on their tracks. Smokestacks wait to exhale. This is Star Pet, a mammoth factory in north Asheboro that manufactures PET…...
Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1024+ words) Alabama environmental regulators have agreed to update standards used to limit the amounts of 12 toxic and carcinogenic substances in the state's waterways, a move that clean water advocates say will help protect those who fish and swim in Alabama's rivers....