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The company once described the Duwamish, one of the country’s most contaminated waterways, as “a natural collector” for its wastes. The Port of Seattle and Boeing accuse each other of failing to pay their fair shares for the cleanup.

Orange-stained ditch water that state officials observed seeping up from the ground along East Fork Road this past spring was contaminated with more than 880 times the federally recommended maximum

A new National Science Foundation-funded project is tackling a perplexing problem — that of the toxic heavy metals left behind after uranium mining in Native American communities in New Mexico — from a multifaced angle. Instead of offering a top-down,...

A University of Rhode Island researcher leads a study that confirms a direct link between certain chemicals in drinking water and human obesity...

PFAS exposure is nearly ubiquitous; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that over 98% of Americans have PFAS in their blood.

The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives.

Hurricanes, wildfires, and melting permafrost headlined the last two sessions of the NIEHS Superfund Research Program's Climate Change and Health webinar series.

Neighbors in Grant Parish say Clean Harbors Colfax has faced few repercussions for serious past violations at its burn pit site.

CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Superfund Research Program is conducting a study to prevent and reduce harmful exposure to contaminated well water.

The funds will allow the center to continue research on climate change and health.