EPA is using stimulus funds to help states address underground storage tank leaks, which can contaminate groundwater.
The towns of Libby and Troy have had higher numbers of asbestos-related disease cases, constituting a public health emergency.
Personal protective suits, multi-gas meters, and related hazmat response equipment for Cuidad Juárez first responders were transferred to Mexico's Dirección de Protección Civil.
The owner of a storage facility in Bangor, Maine, will pay a fine of $17,121 to settle EPA claims that it violated chemical reporting requirements.
A forensics company has identified 11 of 12 compounds that could be considered health concerns in imported drywall.
Amendment requests $2 million for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to expedite the investigation.
After a week of drinking from polycarbonate bottles, participants showed a two-thirds increase in bisphenol A in their urine.
Issues concerning chemical distributors include the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, EPA's ChAMP, and railroad obligations.
EIA, ADAO say that all forms of asbestos are responsible for related lung, laryngeal, and ovarian cancers, and mesotherlioma.
The group filed a lawsuit in California against retailers and manufacturers for products containing propoxur without proper labeling.
The company will pay a $1.7 million penalty and spend millions to correct violations in seven states that were found after Invista took ownership of the DuPont facilities.
Albania Deleon, an asbestos removal training company president, did not appear for her sentencing hearing and was placed on the EPA's wanted list.
The California Air Resources Board next year will require auto maintenance shops to check the tire pressure of the vehicles they service.
EPA's new chemical toxicity strategy will incorporate methods that use advances in molecular biology, genomics, and computational sciences.