Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

Suit says administration is impinging on rights to life and liberty by worsening planet-warming and toxic pollution…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/trump-administration-climate-pollution-lawsuit

 

Michigan will get up to $240 million in settlement over PCBs, Nessel says

“Despite being banned for years in the United States, PCBs leave a toxic legacy that continues to threaten our health and environment,” Nessel said in a statement released Monday by her office. “This settlement directly supports our efforts to hold corporations accountable for the pollution caused by their products and ensures we have the resources needed to remove these chemicals from our state.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2026-05-18/michigan-will-get-up-to-240-million-in-settlement-over-pcbs-nessel-says

 

Trump EPA to weaken drinking water limits on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ - POLITICO

The administration said it wants to rescind and reconsider whether limits are needed for four PFAS that chemical companies are still producing and using in the U.S. — despite known health risks...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/14/trump-epa-to-weaken-drinking-water-limits-on-toxic-forever-chemicals-00347905 

 

Below Aging Dams, a Toxic Threat

Documents suggest that in more than 80 U.S. locations, the failure of an aging dam could flood a major toxic waste site...

https://undark.org/2021/06/01/below-dozens-of-aging-dams-a-potential-toxic-calamity/

 

Boeing sued by flight attendants claiming plane design let 'toxic air' into cabin | TheHill

Three flight attendants are suing Boeing, claiming the company designed a plane that allows “toxic air” into the cabin that made them sick. The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday asserts that the planes utilize a “bleed air system” that takes in air that allegedly contains various chemicals off the engines outside, The Chicago Tribune reported. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/480830-boeing-sued-by-flight-attendants-claiming-that-plane-design

Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water

Residents had for years been drinking water contaminated by dangerous PFAS chemicals – and the impact has been brutal ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/10/toxic-chemicals-michigan-wolverine-chemicals-pfas

Chinese metal mines feed the global demand for gadgets. They’re also poisoning China’s poorest regions - The Washington Post

Toxic dust and runoff bring soaring levels of dangerous metals such as cadmium and lead.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-metal-mines-feed-the-global-demand-for-gadgets-theyre-also-poisoning-chinas-poorest-regions/2019/12/29/c90eac2c-0bcb-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html

Trump regime reportedly will announce rollback of Obama era rule governing dangerous coal ash

Here we go again. While Republicans continued their whining and whimpering about how unfair Democrats are being to confessed outlaw Donald Trump in their impeachment inquiry, one of the reasons they’re defending the man was noted by Lisa Friedman at The New York Times Thursday. Namely, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce yet another rollback of an Obama era regulation. That regulation, five years in the making, was designed to force owners of coal-fired power plants to protect people’s health by investing in equipment to reduce the toxins that their operations discharge into local waterways. This would, President Obama’s regulators said, cut 1.4 billion tons of toxic metals and other dangerous chemicals from tainting creeks and rivers...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/31/1896382/-Trump-regime-reportedly-will-announce-rollback-of-Obama-era-rule-governing-dangerous-coal-ash

Scaling Mountains to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Pajamas (Union of Concerned Scientists, Got Science? podcast episode 68)

Scientist and adventurer Dr. Arlene Blum discusses her research on cancer-causing chemicals in kid’s pajamas in the 70s and chemical safety today.
Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/gotscience/ep-68-scaling-mountains-to-ban-toxic-chemicals-in-pajamas

The Toxic Trash That Is Poisoning the West Bank - NYTimes

Constant fires of e-waste and trash are sickening residents and contaminating fields where sheep once grazed in the southern West Bank. Efforts to fix the problem have become mired in politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/sunday/west-bank-e-waste.html

Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides

America’s agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to honeybees, and likely other insects, than it was 25 years ago, almost entirely due to widespread use of so-called neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS One. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/insect-apocalypse-under-way-toxic-pesticides-agriculture/

Here’s how to tell the difference between ‘toxic’ and ‘abusive’ friendships - The Washington Post

For these two women, it took professional help to recognize the abuse...
https://www.thelily.com/experts-say-theres-a-difference-between-toxic-and-abusive-friendships-heres-how-to-tell/

New Jersey Is Making Companies Pay for Toxic Contamination — Shining a New Light on a Little-Known Offender - The Intercept

In the absence of federal regulations, New Jersey is the first state to set safety levels for PFAS contamination and make companies pay for clean up...
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/27/new-jersey-pfas-contamination/

Toxic chemicals are now in our bloodstream — Will EPA finally set limits? - The Hill

PFAS have made their way over time into soil, surface water, sediments and groundwater, both directly and through air emissions...
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/434950-toxic-pfas-made-their-way-into-the-blood-of-countless-americans

Hookah smokers inhale toxic chemicals that may harm the heart, report warns - CNN

Hookah smoking impacts heart rate and blood pressure, with chronic use being linked to increased heart disease risk, says new report. Authors warn that hookah usage is encouraged through flavor options, social media and misconceptions that it is less harmful than cigarettes...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/health/hookah-smoking-toxic-chemicals-heart-study-intl/index.html

Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling - NYTimes

The pollution, often from foam used in firefighting, is part of a mounting concern over the presence of toxic substances that could affect at least 10 million Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html

EPA Scientists: The Toxic Chemicals Our Agency Won't Regulate Are Definitely in Our Drinking Water - Mother Jones

Remember those disturbingly ubiquitous chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency can't bring itself to ban from our drinking water? ....
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/02/epa-scientists-the-toxic-chemicals-we-wont-regulate-are-definitely-in-our-drinking-water/

Trump administration condemned over delaying action on toxic drinking water

EPA to spend at least another year considering whether to restrict toxic chemicals found in drinking water...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/14/epa-toxic-chemicals-pfos-pfoa-delay

The EPA wants to make it harder to limit toxic chemicals from power plants - Vox

Toxic pollution standards save up to 17,000 lives per year, but the EPA wants to change how it measures the benefits. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/28/18159509/mats-mercury-epa-toxic-coal-power-plant

'Toxic Christianity': the evangelicals creating champions for Trump - the guardian

Three times a week, 15,000 students stream into the Vines Center, a huge silver-domed building on the campus of Liberty University for "convocation", an intoxicating mix of prayer, political rally and entertainment. Thousands more watch a live stream of the event. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/21/evangelical-christians-trump-liberty-university-jerry-falwell