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Chemicals

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

Since 2023, the city of Durham has fined Brenntag $157,000 for violations related to water contamination.

By Lisa Sorg

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News
A chemical fire continues to burn at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. on March 19, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.

By Liza Gross

The construction site of the COL5 data center is seen on July 24 in Lewis Center, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers

By Tom Perkins

Waste pickers carry plastic materials to recycle at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers

By Liza Gross

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, lead has been detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death

By Lisa Sorg

Traci Donatto outside her home in Deer Park, Texas. After 20 years away, she returned to the Houston suburb to care for her father, a former contract welder for the petrochemical industry who is dying of cancer. Credit: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

Trump Pollution Exemptions Would Shield Lawbreakers, Endanger Millions

By Shelby Jouppi

A chemical plant in Jiujiang, China. Chemical plants in eastern China, including one in Jiujiang, are likely the primary source of 40 percent of the world’s trifluoromethane (HFC-23) emissions. Credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

A Restricted Climate Super Pollutant Is Pumped Out at Far Higher Levels Than Countries Admit. What Happens Next?

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is near a neoprene factory in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

As Chemical Industry Seeks Exemption From Pollution Limits, Residents See Assault on Their Lives

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Plumes of smoke fill the sky as a brush fire burns on Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

How Should You Clean Your House After It’s Engulfed in Wildfire Smoke?

By Anna Gibbs

Electronic waste is seen in a recycling facility in the Guangdong Province of South China. Polymeric brominated flame retardants are widely used in electronics to reduce fire risk. Credit: Guillaume Payen/LightRocket via Getty Images

A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Toxic Chemicals

By Liza Gross

Discarded plastic and other material overflow in a garbage bin in Los Angeles. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Consumerism—and the Chemicals in All of Our Stuff—Is Thwarting the Transition From Fossil Fuels

By Liza Gross

Nathan Harrington, who leads Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, carries a broken tire visible from the road to his truck. Credit: Kayla Benjamin/The Washington Informer

DC’s Tire-Dumping Epidemic

Kayla Benjamin, The Washington Informer via Report for America

Elizabeth Goldman, an IVF patient, shows a photo of her child during a roundtable with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Feb. 27 in Birmingham, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

Alabama Supreme Court IVF Ruling Renews Focus on Plastics, Chemical Exposure and Infertility

By James Bruggers, Lee Hedgepeth

The site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 14, 2023. Credit: Rebecca Kiger/The Washington Post via Getty Images

One Year Later, Pennsylvanians Living Near the East Palestine Train Derailment Site Say They’re Still Sick

By Kiley Bense

The health of farmworkers is put at risk as growers continue to apply toxic fumigants around Watsonville, Calif. Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges

By Liza Gross

Bisphenols, used in aluminum can linings, are synthetic estrogens that mess with fat distribution in the body. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Q&A: Everyday Plastics Are Making Us Sick—and Costing Us $250 Billion a Year in Healthcare

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Smoke billows from a chemical plant in the "cancer alley" area Oct. 12, 2013. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

For the First Time in Nearly Two Decades, the EPA Announces New Rules to Limit Toxic Air Pollutants From Chemical and Plastics Plants

By James Bruggers

Natural gas drilling on the Pinedale Anticline in Wyoming.

Fracking Chemicals: Are Tiny Doses Safe?

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

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