The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for determining the acceptable level of certain contaminants in drinking water throughout the nation. Two of the most dangerous contaminants are perfluorooctane sulfonate…
Perfluorooctanoic acid is an odorless and colorless chemical that’s used in Teflon, Scotchgard, and other similar consumer products, like the ones turned out at the large Saint Gobain Performance Plastics…
For decades, the who lived and work on and around Willow Grove Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base, the Horsham Air Guard Station, and the Naval Air Warfare Center complained that…
In 2016, state officials discovered that the water in a large part of Bennington County was laced with over 140 times the recommended safe maximum level of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA),…
Exposing Violations of the Clean Air Act Air pollution is an area of much concern to people throughout the U.S. and worldwide, not just for public health but for reasons…
The consequences of chemical explosions may be so catastrophic that there is an independent national agency, The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, tasked with exploring the source of industrial chemical injuries….
In 2009, under mounting pressure from environmental law attorneys like Paul Napoli, DuPont began using a compound called GenX to produce many consumer products, including Teflon. Chemours, a DuPont subsidiary…
Health/Environmental Concerns Related to Natural Gas Extraction Hydraulic fracturing, also referred to as hydrofracking or fracking, is a technique of releasing petroleum, natural gas or other substances from shale rock…
The town of La Oroya is a mining town located in the central Andean highlands of Peru, at an elevation of approximately 3,750 meters above sea-level. For more than 500…


