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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
Poultry manure is spread as fertilizer on a northwest Iowa corn field. Nitrate from fertilizer that seeps into Iowa drinking water sources has been singled out as a potential  driver of the state’s rising cancer rates. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

Iowa’s Cancer Crisis Linked to Pesticides, PFAS, Fertilizer and Radon, Report Says

By Anika Jane Beamer

Petroleum storage tanks reside next to the Ferry Village neighborhood near the South Portland waterfront. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

There’s Something in the Air in South Portland, Maine

By Ryan Krugman, Inside Climate News, and Sabrina Shankman, Boston Globe

Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

By Liza Gross

StarPet, a plastics plant in Asheboro, sends wastewater containing 1,4-dioxane to the city's treatment plant, which in turn discharges it into rivers and streams that are drinking water supplies. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater

By Lisa Sorg

A view of StarPet’s 1.3 million-square-foot plastics factory in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Asheboro, North Carolina, Is Under Pressure to Control Discharges of a Toxic Chemical Into Drinking Water Supply

By Lisa Sorg

Communities in Monterey County are often embedded in agricultural fields. In the Pajaro Valley near Salinas, Calif., people are surrounded by strawberry fields, where growers apply large volumes of pesticides known to cause harm, including brain-damaging organophosphates and cancer-causing 1,3-D. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers pick strawberries in a field on June 12 in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

California Updates Pesticide Alert System

By Liza Gross

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

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

Cleanup takes place at the former DuPont Pompton Lakes Works manufacturing site in New Jersey. Credit: Borough of Pompton Lakes

Amid Federal PFAS Rollbacks, New Jersey Scores Record $2 Billion DuPont Settlement

By Rambo Talabong

StarPet operates a 1.3 million-square-foot factory on 30 acres along Pineview Road in Asheboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of the Cahaba River as it flows through central Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards

By Dennis Pillion

Neuroscience professor Gina Turrigiano talks with researchers at her Brandeis University lab, where researchers are studying the origins of autism and other neurological disorders, on Feb. 12 in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Unraveling the Link Between Plastics and Autism

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A toxic site in San Francisco’s Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white communities. Credit: Laura Wenus/San Francisco Public Press

Toxic Cleanups in San Francisco Take More Than Four Years Longer in Communities of Color

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, San Francisco Public Press

A PFAS water treatment plant is seen in Villa Park, Calif. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

The Trump Administration Plans to Undo Standards on Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in the U.S. Drinking Water Supply

By Georgina Gustin

Nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with toxic PFAS. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags

By Keerti Gopal

After the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant caught fire, the facility's owners shipped thousands of gallons of fire suppressant water to a dairy farm in Yadkin County. That material contained toxic PFAS. Credit: Winston-Salem Fire Department

EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

By Lisa Sorg

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

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