Articles Tagged with ''environmental contaminants''

DOJ is asking for $64,618 per day, per violation of the Clean Water Act and $55,808 per day or $2,232 per barrel of oil or unit of hazardous substance.

Numerous Maine farmers have had their livelihoods disrupted due to PFAS contamination, which originated in sludge that was spread as fertilizer by farmers who were told by the government that it was safe to use.

Groups call for a prohibition on Inhance Technologies from continuing to produce several dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during the fluorination of plastic containers. 

VLS is an industry-leading environmental services company providing customized waste processing, specialty cleaning, and repair services to a variety of highly-regulated industries.

Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in Ohio, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed on a major highway outside Tucson, Arizona.

Limited studies have shown that fetal development and cognitive and mental capacity of young children may be altered by PFAS chemicals.

The beluga whale population in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, which connects Anchorage to the North Pacific Ocean, is listed as endangered and has declined by over 75% from about 1,300 whales in the late 1970’s to fewer than 300 today.

Areas of focused groundwater discharge identified by the fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing surveys corresponded closely with areas of elevated electrical conductivity.

A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology investigates the ideal ratio between boron nitride and PFAS to remove fluorine atoms.

Future work will focus on developing new multifunctional framework materials and scaling up the process of embedding the metal-organic coatings into fabric, Mirica says.