EDCs in the News

Hélène Duguy is taking on companies accused of failing to stop PFAS pollution in the area of France she calls home.

Unsafe levels of toxic metals were detected last November in dozens of drinking water wells near the Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon fire.

A new report warns that widely used PFAS treatments only concentrate the chemicals, not destroy them, as EU and U.S. limits tighten sharply.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns parents about counterfeit squishy toys that may contain hazardous substances such as lead and phthalates, urging caution and vigilance when purchasing these popular children’s items.

Wendy Brennan agreed to participate in a study examining how arsenic exposure can affect children’s cognitive development primarily because her young daughter wanted the free T-shirt.

Researchers at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them.

Dependent on a delicate hormonal balance, the thyroid gland is adversely affected by ultra-processed foods, among other artificial interventions in our diet.

Your outdoor clothing performs on the trails, but what is its impact on your health and the planet? James Witts meets the innovators aiming to tread more lightly on the landscape.

In the largest suit ever brought by the U.S. federal government, details emerge about the alleged conduct of the chemical giant accused of withholding health warnings.

A 2025 study found that exposure to certain PFAS chemicals can lead to changes in gene expression that are linked to cancers, autoimmune and other immune disorders, and neurological disorders.

Households near the reserve burn plastic waste, releasing pollutants that travel by air and settle on the leaves the monkeys eat.

Precision is critical when policymakers consider PFAS in medical devices and can directly influence whether patients trust those devices.

The carbon-fluorine bonds inside PFAS are among the strongest in chemistry, allowing these industrial pollutants to persist in water for years. Researchers are testing two ways to break those bonds.

As nations around the world move to ban forever chemicals, should renewable energy technologies be exempt for the sake of saving the climate?

The lawsuit alleges nine companies failed to prevent toxic forever chemicals from entering the waterways Veolia relies on to provide drinking water.

One year after negotiations for a global plastics treaty collapsed in Geneva, a new document has been released to revive the process.

DuPont and related companies will pay $2.5 billion for environmental damage from “forever chemicals” at three industrial sites, including two in South Jersey. 3M agreed to pay up to $450 million.

Sewer sludge, called biosolids, is used as inexpensive fertilizer on Indiana’s farms, but PFAS contamination is not tracked in Indiana.

A $2 billion lawsuit for defense base contamination against the U.S. chemical manufacturer is heard in court for the first time.

Just 14 percent of England’s rivers, lakes, and coastal waters are in good ecological health.