With the advent of protective equipment in the work place, strict enforcement of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, and the specter of litigation hanging over the heads ...
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) proposes to reduce the eight-hour time-weighted average exposure threshold limit value (TLV) for benzene to 0.02 ppm and reduce ...
from a ruptured pipeline Monday near Marshall. Officials said Tuesday that high levels of benzene, a potentially harmful chemical released from the oil, could pose a health hazard to humans who come ...
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. On a cloudy late-winter morning in 2004, Charles and Dorothy Harper were ...
Earlier this month, Molecule of the Week brought you the venerable and extremely hazardous molecule benzene. This week’s molecule has one of the structures that was originally proposed for benzene: ...
ATHENS, Georgia — It was December 29, 1998, six years after Jill McElheney and her family had moved next to a cluster of 12 petroleum storage tanks. Jill was escorting her son Jarrett, then 4, to the ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by ProPublica. As a climate reporter, I was well ...
While skimming through our morning news, we came across a story on the internet about a chemical known to cause cancer found in one or more sunscreens. Interesting, we thought, do we not use ...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As a climate reporter, I was well aware of the growing ...