In 2017, the Minamata Convention on Mercury went into effect, designed to help curb mercury emissions and limit exposure across the globe. However, a new study of mercury levels in soil suggests that ...

Researchers developed a way to fingerprint organofluorine compounds -- sometimes called 'forever chemicals' --which could help authorities trace them to their source when they end up in aquifers, ...

Illnesses related to chemical pollution of the soil, water, and air are responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths annually, which equates to 16% of all global deaths; half of these ...

Editor's note: As legislators across the region look to impose new standards on PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") and as the U.S. EPA looks to expand rules governing PFAS pollution in drinking ...

Study Shows Drug Factories Are Pumping Superbug Genes Into Rivers, And Nobody’s Stopping Them In A Nutshell Antibiotic factories pump out concentrated resistance pollution. Manufacturing plants show ...

The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a cleanup and abatement order to the owners of 795 Buckley Road after finding its historical operations had extensively polluted the soil ...

If the company receives state approval, Enviri will have two weeks to clean several thousand pounds of PFAS-contaminated soil. State Sen. Brad Holyman-Sigal holds up a frying pan as he speaks with ...

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” have gained a lot of attention recently. The chemicals have been found in fruits and vegetables, drinking water, and ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on the environmental and public health threat posed by decades of pollution from dry cleaning chemicals across California. The deep, crystal ...