New York City Council Approves Commercial Waste Zones
The New York City Council approved a long-debated proposal last week to break up the city into...
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New Federal Survey to Study Harassment in Trucking Industry
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), an agency within the Department of Transportation that regulates the...
Industry Cites 3M Experiment That Exposed Cancer Patients to PFAS to Claim the Chemicals Aren’t So Bad.
Defenders of the chemicals known as PFAS have seized upon an industry-funded study of cancer patients as evidence...
Report: IBM withdraws video surveillance product in the wake of media scrutiny
IBM appears to have withdrawn a controversial video surveillance product from the market.
The surveillance industry trade website...
EPA Move to Phase Out Animal Experiments Could Mean the End of Toxics Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with a plan to sharply reduce and ultimately phase out experimental...
Teflon Toxin Safety Level Should be 700 Times Lower Than Current EPA Guideline
New data suggests that the safety threshold for PFOA in drinking water should be as low as...
Following Investigation, ACLU Sues U.S. Coast Guard Over Maritime Detentions
On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of four Jamaican fishermen alleging...
Type Investigations Announces the 2019 Ida B. Wells Fellows
Type Investigations is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Ida B. Wells Fellowship, whose goal...
3M Knew About PFAS Food Contamination in 2001
Last week, we learned that the Food and Drug Administration had detected PFAS compounds in pineapple, sweet potato,...
Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found in Maine Farms Fertilized with Sewage Sludge
All sewage sludge recently tested by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection was contaminated with PFAS chemicals,...
Anti-Gay Discrimination, Unleashed
On Thursday the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal sued the Trump administration and the state...
Air Pollution Crisis Exposes More Environmental Racism in Illinois
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
Wendy Abrams has used her wealth to help protect the environment...
High Levels of Toxic PFAS Chemicals Pollute Breast Milk Around the World
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes...
Brazil’s Pesticide Industry is Creating Massive PFOS Contamination
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from...
Starbucks Promised a Recyclable Drink Lid. Don’t Believe the Hype.
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
The new Starbucks coffee cup lid, which is being rolled out...
A Former Oil-Industry Lobbyist Is Now In Charge of America’s Public Lands
This story originally appeared in The Nation.
It’s been a rough couple of months for David Bernhardt. Since...
How the Media Launders Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Through Branded Content
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
There it was in black and white — or black, white,...
New Jersey is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination — Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender
This story originally appeared in The Intercept.
New Jersey laid financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at...
Still Funding the Confederacy
On most Saturdays since 2013, volunteers have met at East End Cemetery in Henrico County to hack...
Young People Feel Betrayed by Adults Over the Climate Crisis. Today, They’re Going on Strike.
For her 16th Birthday, Maddy Fernands asked her parents for an unusual gift: to switch the family...