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E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025HIROKO TABUCHIComments Off on E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats

The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.

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Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Simon RomeroComments Off on Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocket company has caused die-offs of marine life. SpaceX said there were “no hazards to the surrounding area.”

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Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

June 26, 2025Simon RomeroComments Off on Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocket company has caused die-offs of marine life.

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Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

June 26, 2025Simon RomeroComments Off on Debris From SpaceX Explosion, Landing in Mexico, Draws Investigation

Mexican environmental activists say detritus raining down from Elon Musk’s rocket company has caused die-offs of marine life.

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Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025HIROKO TABUCHIComments Off on Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.

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Smoke From Wildfires in Canada Wafts Into the Upper Midwest

May 30, 2025CHRISTINE HAUSERComments Off on Smoke From Wildfires in Canada Wafts Into the Upper Midwest

States across the border issued air advisories about particulate pollution that are expected to last for several days.

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South Carolina Says PFAS-Contaminated Farmland Should Be Superfund Site

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025Hiroko Tabuchi and Caroline GutmanComments Off on South Carolina Says PFAS-Contaminated Farmland Should Be Superfund Site

For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”

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A Maker of Sewage-Based Fertilizer Leaves Town Amid a Toxic Crisis

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025HIROKO TABUCHIComments Off on A Maker of Sewage-Based Fertilizer Leaves Town Amid a Toxic Crisis

Ranchers in Texas claim livestock was sickened by ‘forever chemicals’ in fertilizer made from sewage sludge. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to manufacture there.

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E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk

March 22, 2025March 22, 2025HIROKO TABUCHIComments Off on E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk

The agency will no longer shut down “any stage of energy production,” absent an imminent threat, a new memo says, and will curtail efforts to cut pollution in poorer areas.

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European Court Ruling Gives Hope in Italy Region Known for Toxic Waste

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on European Court Ruling Gives Hope in Italy Region Known for Toxic Waste

The European Court of Human Rights took Italy to task for not protecting citizens in an area where illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste has long been linked to cancers. Residents say it’s about time.

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