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U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release “Science-Based” Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

Citing a ProPublica investigation that found formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a letter that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”

Selling a Mirage

Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

The plastics industry uses a controversial accounting method to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products. A new EPA policy won’t allow it for any products it endorses as a “Safer Choice.”

Series

27 stories published since 2009

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release “Science-Based” Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

Check the Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.

Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

How a Green Tech Startup With No Climate Experience Secured Millions of Dollars in Government Contracts

California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company

Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.

How We Measured the Environmental Cost of Bankrupt Mines

We’re Releasing the Data Behind Our Toxic Air Analysis

How We Created the Most Detailed Map Ever of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

“They Deserve to Be Safe”: Candidates Call on Florida to Investigate the Health Effects of Sugar Cane Burning

The EPA Refuses to Reduce Pollutants Linked to Coronavirus Deaths

How a PG&E Contractor With a Sketchy Past Made Millions After California’s Deadliest Fire

How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat

What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA

Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate

Kaboom Town

EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many

Charting the Human Cost of Different Types of Energy

The BP Oil Spill Saga: Where Things Stand Now

Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water

Despite Internal Concerns About Rig Safety, Transocean Says It’s Shielded By Contract

EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking

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Melissa Sanchez

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Jesse Coburn

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