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![Coca-Cola bottles, with some wrapped in plastic]()
Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle
A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”
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![A man wearing waders and a vest uses a net to remove dead salmon from the foamy water of a river polluted with firefighting foam flame retardant.]()
![A man wearing waders and a vest uses a net to remove dead salmon from the foamy water of a river polluted with firefighting foam flame retardant.]()
The EPA’s proposed PFAS regulations ignore a major source of drinking water contamination
A new study suggests unregulated “precursor” compounds account for half of total PFAS pollution at sites around the country.
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![A gloved human hand holds a plastic bottle under a faucet.]()
Study: Black and Hispanic communities more likely to have drinking water with PFAS
Report says 18 million Americans have drinking water with "forever chemicals."
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![Rolling hills and forest are interrupted by an enclosure with a gas installation.]()
![Rolling hills and forest are interrupted by an enclosure with a gas installation.]()
Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning
A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.
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![A truck turns onto a road carting a shipping container from a port.]()
Electrify everything, California says — including trucks and trains
The unprecedented regulations will tackle air pollution and carbon emissions at the same time.
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As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
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After a Houston-area chemical fire, toxic benzene lingered for weeks, endangering residents
Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
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For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
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![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
![U.S. President Joe Biden is surrounded by environmental justice advocates and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he signs an executive order addressing environmental justice issues in the Rose Garden of the White House.]()
New Biden executive order takes aim at environmental injustice
Past and present pollution will now be taken into account before new industry moves into already beleaguered neighborhoods.
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How a looming El Niño could fuel the spread of infectious disease
The oceanic phenomenon could lead to more pathogen-carrying mosquitoes, bacteria, and toxic algae.
