n an investigation involving hundreds of interviews with scientists, environmentalists, regulators, and workers, Rolling Stone found a sweeping arc of contamination — oil-and-gas waste spilled, spread, and dumped across America, posing under-studied risks to the environment, the public, and especially the industry’s own employees. There is little... See more

The sources of this material are highly correlated with the absence of effective waste management infrastructures. It has been estimated that nearly 90% of the plastics entering the ocean comes from just 10 rivers, all located in Asia or Africa. (14)

Since those deadly fires four months ago, federal clean-up crews have cleared the sites of some 4,000 former properties around LA. But while they are removing the top 6 inches of soil due to the inevitable presence of contaminants, they are controversially not testing the soil that they leave behind—seemingly in an attempt to speed up their work.... See more