EDCs in the News

The US should review policies that allow major food crops to be sprayed directly with herbicides shortly before harvest and should tighten related policies that allow for high levels of residues of those pesticides in finished food products, according to a petition filed Thursday with the government regulators.

Recycled black plastics leach hazardous chemicals that disrupt metabolism and hormone genes, raising hidden safety concerns for everyday consumer products.

PennEnvironment researchers tested 22 rivers and streams, finding microfibers in every location and microfragments in 82% of sites across the four-state basin.

A landmark settlement confronts decades of PFAS pollution — but not the corporate system that keeps moving the toxic waste elsewhere.

Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN.

For now, PFAS-free alternatives are not quite to the performance standard paddlers have come to expect from the best drysuits and drytops of the PFAS era.

Cape Fear River Watch, via its representation, the Southern Environmental Law Center, contends Chemours continues to exceed emission and discharge limits.

I served at a secretive military installation in Nevada, which the U.S. government now admits contains nuclear contamination. But there’s a catch.

For most people, handling receipts is a low-risk activity, but if you’re concerned, there are some straightforward precautions you can take.

A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll’s fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tried to cover it up.

As our climate becomes hotter and extreme heat becomes more common, the surface beneath our children matters. And the consequences of getting that decision wrong could last for decades.

From flax that can be used in clothing and cars to robotic skimmers to stricter laws, determined researchers, activists and volunteers fight an industry intent on making more plastic.

The sewage sludge (biosolids) some farmers have applied to their fields for decades is contaminated with PFAS — with serious consequences for drinking water.

The Environmental Protection Agency has revised its website to clarify that PFOA and PFOS remain in use in some U.S. manufacturing, nearly a year after a public health advocacy group requested the change.

Researchers at Michigan State University are exploring an unexpected new tool that could reshape how scientists detect “forever chemicals” in lakes, rivers, and wetlands across the Great Lakes.

For children growing up in South Africa’s farming communities, exposure to pesticides may not end when the tractors leave the fields.

A cancer-linked pesticide banned in more than 60 countries around the world contaminates an estimated 25% of river and stream miles in the lower 48 U.S. states, including many waterways used for drinking water, according to a new analysis.

Serious health and safety violations are penalized differently across counties, and regulatory actions are enforced inconsistently.

The PFAS discharges violate a 2019 consent order between Chemours and the state, attorneys from the Southern Environmental Law Center say.

While still being studied, PFAS exposure is linked to increased cancer risks, fertility issues, low birth weights or fetal development issues, and hormonal imbalances.