Across the country, states and cities are replacing lead pipes to address concerns over lead-contaminated drinking water, an urgent health threat. But environmental advocates are concerned that a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has initiated a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The flames and deadly black smoke that billowed high over a small town on the Ohio ...

NEW YORK — For the 16th year in a row, gift cards will be the most requested present this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. More than $3.4 billion were sold in the United ...

Five companies collectively produce more than 10 billion pounds of vinyl chloride in a year in the U.S. It is outrageous that so many communities are being exposed...Governments and major retailers ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday rejected a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to list discarded polyvinyl chloride as hazardous waste under federal law. The Center ...

Researchers have shown that a common plastic additive called carbon black can depolymerize polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), two of the least recycled plastics in the planet’s waste stream It ...