For years, it looked as if contamination in an industrial neighborhood beside the South Park Marina was coming from the old Malarkey asphalt plant next door to the marina. There, workers are known to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Several individual and combinations of dioxins are associated with high thyroid-stimulating hormone levels.

The incidence of the most common form of liver cancer (75-85%), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), has increased since the 1970s. Internationally, liver cancer is the second most common cause of ...

A new publication by the Chlorine Chemistry Council, Backyard Trash Burning: The Wrong Answer, warns of the increasingly significant contribution of uncontrolled backyard trash-burning to pollutant ...

Cumulative exposure to airborne dioxin pollution may slightly increase breast cancer risk, according to a French nested case-control study. Dioxin refers to a class of compounds generated by ...

Toxic exposure may leave lasting genetic damage, increasing the risk of early and aggressive bone marrow cancers years after ...

The city of Houston found dioxin in 42 soil samples from around the long-contaminated Union Pacific site near Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward, adding to concerns there could be ongoing risk for those ...

East Palestine’s soil could be contaminated with dioxins, according to experts. But without proper testing, the reach and contamination level remain unclear. Dioxins form when chlorine-based chemicals ...

Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are released into the environment from several sources, including combustion, metal processing, and chemical manufacturing and processing. The most toxic of ...

EAST PALESTINE, Pa. (KDKA/AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency said it's requiring Norfolk Southern to test for dioxins at the site of the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The ...

After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a type of toxic substance that tends to stay in the environment. Sherrod Brown and J.D.

File photo: A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, on Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) ...