Wildfires in parts of the U.S. West may be transforming a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart —...
Toxic chemical reactions fuel crises at L.A. County landfills
Photo: The Sunshine Canyon landfill lies just beyond the Granada Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Area residents have complained of...
Stricter Microplastics Regulations Are on the Horizon. Here’s How California Manufacturers Should Prepare
According to the American Chemical Association, the average American consumes up to 121,000 microplastic particles each year—through air, water, and soil—and...
Military firefighters’ ‘forever chemical’ exposures remain unrecognized by the VA.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the armed forces began employing aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) on many U.S. military...
Microplastics could trigger cloud formation and affect the weather, new study suggests
Sunset scenery at Mount Tai in Tai’an, east China’s Shandong Province on May 23, 2018. Jia Guangrui/SIPA/Zuma CNN — Microplastics...