After many years of treating the developing world as its environmental dumping ground, the U.S. is finally getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of another country’s dangerous garbage. Dupont-spinoff Chemours is sending industrial waste from the Netherlands to North Carolina. The waste… read more
Without admitting liability, 3M Co. has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle allegations that it supplied the U.S. military with defective earplugs, Department of Justice officials announced late Thursday. The settlement, which involves the second version of 3M’s “dual-ended combat arms earplugs” (CAEv2), resolves a whistleblower’s allegations that 3M… read more
Reports have surfaced that Ring Video Security Camera allowed its Ukraine-based research and development team to access a data folder that contained every video created by a Ring camera globally, including ones captured within customers’ homes, in spite of its pledge to increase customers’ security. The team reportedly had the… read more
On November 1, 2018, Capital Forensics had people’s private information stolen from it. The data stolen includes names, financial account numbers and social security numbers. Capital Forensics manages the persona data collected financial investment, stock broker, and wealth management companies. If you are a customer of LPL Financial, or your… read more
In July, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality found high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) polluting the city of Parchment’s municipal and residential wells. High PFAS levels found on a landfill once used by paper mills indicate a likely source, but a study of groundwater in the city of Parchment,… read more
EPA joined Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Indiana Department of Public Health and the federal agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at an Aug. 3 2018 public meeting in Franklin, Ind. In July, 2018 Edison Wetlands Association and the “If It Was Your Child” organization raised concerns to EPA and… read more
The children fell ill, one by one, with cancers that few families in this suburban Indianapolis community had ever heard of. An avid swimmer struck down by glioblastoma, which grew a tumor in her brain. Four children with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Fifteen children with acute lymphocytic leukemia,… read more
This town along the banks of the Kalamazoo River became the latest community affected by a ubiquitous class of compounds known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. For years, calls for regulation have been unsuccessful, and last January the Trump administration tried to block publication of a study urging… read more
The Kingston disaster was the worst coal ash spill in United States history and inspired environmentalists to push for tighter regulations over the past decade, but pollution from coal ash remains a widespread and ongoing problem. Across the country, coal ash, boiler slag and other combustion waste from power plants… read more
For decades, farmers, lawn care workers and professional green thumbs have relied on the popular weed killer atrazine to protect their crops, golf courses and manicured lawns… Now, new research suggests that atrazine may be dangerous at lower concentrations than previously thought. Recent studies suggest that, even at concentrations… read more