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Appeal Could Make It Easier for Companies to Spread Drilling Fluids on Pennsylvania Roadways

In recent years, Pennsylvania regulators have tried to clamp down on roadway spreading of tens of millions of gallons of oil and gas “brines,” high-salt liquids that can be laced with toxic metals and radioactive material. The industry is pushing back.

By Kyle Bagenstose

A waste water tank truck drives through Waynesburg, Pa. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images
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

Normally phosphogypsum is disposed of in stacks such as this one in Riverview, Fla. Credit: Sarah Gledhill/Center for Biological Diversity

Plan to Build a Road With Radioactive Waste in Florida Prompts Legal Challenge Against the EPA

By Amy Green

Heather McTeer Toney, a former official with the Environmental Protection Agency, has made it her personal mission to raise awareness among Black women, in particular, and in the African American community, in general, about the potential harms of chemicals in beauty products and other items. Credit: Timothy Ivy

For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health

By Victoria St. Martin

Ohio EPA and EPA contractors collect soil and air samples from the train derailment site on March 9, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. Credit: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

EPA Begins a Review Process That Could Bring an End to Toxic, Flammable Vinyl Chloride

By Kiley Bense

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