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EPA was so unpopular. Here was a typical scenario, Day told me. When drilling started on his land, the dust from the access road was so bad that a neighbor kept complaining. The easiest solution would’ve been to pave the dirt road, but the EPA wouldn’t let Range do it. “They’d have solved all the problems if they’d just blacktopped it,” Day said. I

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9

I wanted to speak to garment workers whose exposure to fashion chemistry isn’t through drinking water or contaminated vegetables but is somewhat similar to ours: touching the clothing fresh from the dye units, breathing in the fibers that are coated with chemicals.

will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth

All these uniforms had a few things in common. They boasted water and stain repellency. They were anti-wrinkle, antifungal, and anti-odor and came in the bright, saturated colors of the airlines. In other words, they contained layer upon layer of nearly every newfangled chemical process on the market. And all those finishes and dyes seem to have ma

Cane toads are not just disturbingly large; from a human perspective, they’re also ugly, with bony heads and what looks like a leering expression. The trait that makes them truly “hated,” though, is that they’re toxic. When an adult is bitten or feels threatened, it releases a milky goo that swims with heart-stopping compounds. Dogs often suffer ca

While fluoridation may have emerged in the 1940s as a low-cost public health intervention to manage working-class dental problems, today it is a billion-dollar subsidy for the fertilizer industry, in which hydrofluorosilicic acid is a by-product. This industrial waste has found a lucrative afterlife in water supplies around the world.