Chemicals dumped into Sand Creek, South Platte River
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
A substantial portion of PFAS — or forever chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects — found last year in Sand Creek and the South Platte River can be traced to the Suncor Energy oil refinery, a new ...
CHEMICALS By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Toxic “forever chemicals” likely are used and discharged into water at 501 sites in Colorado and at least 29,900 across the United States, according to a new analysis by an environmental advocacy nonprofit.
The Environmental Working Group unveiled th...
By The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 16, 2020
Colorado’s Water Quality Control Commission is putting new limits on a class of chemicals common in everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foam. Colorado Public Radio reports the commission voted unanimously Tuesda...
The New York Times, WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers who said Obama-era rules had shackled them with onerous...
From Participant (Spotlight), DARK WATERS tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemica...
Shared from the 3/7/2019 The Denver Post eEdition
CHEMICALS IN WATER
Costs slow reform
Pentagon tells House committee that addressing toxic compounds would cost $2 billion for DOD
By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press
WASHINGTON» Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of...
By Carl Zimmer
© The New York Times Co.
A team of scientists has found a cheap, effective way to destroy so-called forever chemicals, compounds that pose a global threat to human health.
The chemicals — known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are found in a spectrum of products, a...
Chemicals dumped into Sand Creek, South Platte River
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
A substantial portion of PFAS — or forever chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects — found last year in Sand Creek and the South Platte River can be traced to the Suncor Energy oil refinery, a new ...
CHEMICALS By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Toxic “forever chemicals” likely are used and discharged into water at 501 sites in Colorado and at least 29,900 across the United States, according to a new analysis by an environmental advocacy nonprofit.
The Environmental Working Group unveiled th...
The New York Times, WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers who said Obama-era rules had shackled them with onerous...
