Environmental, Health and Safety News

On June 15, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released drinking water health advisories for PFOA, PFOS, GenX...

In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they've gone into debt because of medical or dental bills. "Debt is no...

EPA Press Office – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the 2022 notices of funding availability for the agenc...

MADISON, Wis.  – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) today announced a new P...

(Independent) Scientists say the newly discovered chemicals may be able to penetrate into aerosol Scientists have discovered an entirely ne...

(DailyMail) Scientists have detected a new type of extremely reactive substance in the Earth's atmosphere that could pose a thre...

Nature article about plastics from end-of-life vehicles can be upcycled - all together, without being sorted - into  graphene. Abstract Resp...

(Via SlashDot) CNBC visited a company that burns trash from a California landfill, and then "harnesses steam to make enough electric...

AIPG MN/WI 2022 Geology and Remediation Weekend (Sept 30 – Oct 2) - Join us for a gathering of professional geologists and their guests to v...

Propublica has put together a remarkable map of EPA data of dangerous air pollution. See it here https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

An Associated Press analysis tallied more than 2,200 high-hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition across the U.S. — up substantia...

The agency is developing a new broad PFAS testing method, a PFAS development for the NPDES program, and ambient water quality criteria to pr...

MADISON, Wis.  – Join the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for  Stop Food Waste Day  on April 27 by helping  keep food waste ...

(OBERK) - Plastic can be found in many of the items that people use on a daily basis. Despite the benefits that make it popular, the ove...

(GreenIsLove) - National Earth Day is April 22nd. The day was established to celebrate our shared green spaces across the nation and to...

A new federal study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found a 25.5 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths in 202...

This article that was recently published may be of interest, with links to full text below the abstract: Sultana, Farhana (2022). "The ...

Wisconsin DNR – Of the estimated 25.2 million devices in Wisconsin households, 7.6 million devices were not in use –about 17% of TVs, 26% o...

ECO-Watch : The goal of the new plan is for Germany to get at least 80 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 and achieve al...

Researchers at Columbia University found that two-thirds of US drinking water systems have elevated levels of uranium Around 90% of American...

MADISON, Wis.  – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that it has recently awarded a total of $90,000 to ...

Author: Curtis Carden  — An international distributor of medicines, based in Charlotte, is upping its inventory of a drug in Europe that ...

Independent   - The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality...

EcoWatch - Fifty years ago, the U.S. passed the Clean Water Act with the goal of ensuring  "fishable, swimmable" water across the...

By the numbers: There was a 19% jump in the number of U.S. deaths between 2019 and 2020. Before then, the largest increase of the decade...

Huffington Post - The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to examine a study that found dozens of baby ...

Exposure to traffic and industrial pollutants associated with 40% higher risk of rheumatoid arthritis, and 20% higher risk of inflammatory b...

"The more tragic part is that we keep making the same ... mistakes again," Lanphear said. "First it was lead, then it was air...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a study showing that by 2030, nearly half of medium- and heavy-duty trucks will be cheaper to b...

Newsweek - President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to highlight the risks of burn pits and the effect they ...

Yesterday, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) acted on three rule proposals that would establish groundwater, drinking water and su...

 Once one of the most commonly found bumblebees in the United States, the population of the American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus) is in...

CEN - A new state law in New York bans the sale of televisions and other electronic displays that contain any intentionally added organohalo...

The Guardian -  As well as the link to IBD, the scientists found that people who tended to drink bottled water or eat takeaway food had abou...

You and I are probably already poisoned by PFAS-contaminated water, along with 99% of Americans — adults and kids alike — according to recen...