Manufacturers have been adding the germ fighter triclosan to soaps, hand washes, and a range of other products for years. But here’s a dirty little secret: Once it washes down the drain, that ...

The burning of peat in coastal areas of Scotland could be responsible for the enigmatic concentrations of dioxins that scientists sometimes find in pre-20th-century European soil samples. Dioxins are ...

For years, it looked as if contamination in an industrial neighborhood beside the South Park Marina was coming from the old Malarkey asphalt plant next door to the marina. There, workers are known to ...

Your coverage of the EPA’s dioxin reassessment (Sept. 14) missed an important part of the story: There are good technologies to control dioxin. I represent one of the few industries that are currently ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Several individual and combinations of dioxins are associated with high thyroid-stimulating hormone levels.

Residents of a community in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, expressed concern to health officials over possible exposures to hazardous substances from nearby chemical industries. The community is located ...

Dioxins are a result of industrial and combustion processes that can seriously affect the health of an individual. The term “dioxins” refers to a group of environmental pollutants that are often ...

The Bush administration became embroiled in another environmental controversy Friday with a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency not to regulate sewage sludge containing dioxin, a toxic ...

A new publication by the Chlorine Chemistry Council, Backyard Trash Burning: The Wrong Answer, warns of the increasingly significant contribution of uncontrolled backyard trash-burning to pollutant ...

Firing clay in unvented kilns could be a significant source of dioxins in people exposed regularly and over long periods, a new study suggests. Ceramics clay, sometimes referred to as ball clay, is ...

The incidence of the most common form of liver cancer (75-85%), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), has increased since the 1970s. Internationally, liver cancer is the second most common cause of ...