chemicals

EPA shifts gears (again) on chemical in paint strippers linked to dozens of deaths

Kara Holsopple

Update: On June 18th, 2018, The Home Depot announced it would phase out paint stripping products containing methylene chloride and NMP by the end of the...

Starting this month, residents living near the Rogue River in Kent County will have their private wells tested for toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

Michigan Environment

Science advisor: In midst of uncertainty, new limit for PFAS chemicals errs on “side of caution”

Stateside Staff

Michigan has set new cleanup rules for chemicals that have contaminated drinking water sources all around the state. The chemicals in question are per...

The sites of the Velsicol Superfund sites in St. Louis Michigan.

Michigan Environment

Michigan's toxic 1973 PBB food contamination associated with more health effects

Rebecca Williams

Researchers find there could be more health effects lingering decades after a toxic contamination of Michigan’s food supply.

The USGS found that a third of all the male smallmouth bass they sampled had intersex traits.

Michigan Environment

Antidepressants are building up in fish brains in the Great Lakes region

Rebecca Williams

Antidepressants that people take are building up in the brains of fish like walleye, bass, and perch. Researchers studied fish from the Niagara River,...

New research suggests low levels of arsenic in drinking water may impact your health.

Michigan Environment

Study: some highly fluorinated chemicals are harder to filter from water

Rebecca Williams

Researchers have found some kinds of chemicals are harder to filter from water. These compounds belong to a family called highly fluorinated chemicals....

A U.S. Geological Survey scientist collecting water quality samples from the Enoree River, South Carolina.

Michigan Environment

Study looks at the "chemical soup" in some of the nation's streams

Rebecca Williams

A lot of different chemicals end up in our rivers and streams. Researchers are finding these mixtures of chemicals are more complex than we thought, and...

Under a new chemical safety law, EPA will conduct risk assessments of chemicals, including asbestos.

Michigan Environment

1, 4-dioxane, asbestos make EPA's list of high priority chemicals

Rebecca Williams

The Environmental Protection Agency just put out a list of ten high priority chemicals. These are the first chemicals the agency will review for risks...

Emory University researchers have found that six out of 10 Michiganders tested still have elevated PBB levels.

Michigan Environment

Michiganders still have elevated PBB levels in their bodies 40 years after chemical accident

Rebecca Williams

In 1973, a plant owned by Velsicol Chemical made a mistake and shipped a toxic flame retardant chemical to a livestock feed plant. The chemical is...

Samples of lake trout from the Great Lakes show detectable levels of FBSA. It's an industrial chemical researchers didn't expect to find.

An industrial chemical finds its way into Great Lakes trout

Lindsey Scullen

An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA. Researchers traced this...

A female green frog. Researchers are finding more females than males in suburbia.

Michigan Environment

There are weird things happening to frogs in the suburbs

Rebecca Williams

Past studies have found strange things happening to frogs when they’re exposed to farm chemicals. A new study shows estrogen in suburban areas is...