A JAMA paper and the newly released city records, read together: the World Trade Center exposure is producing cancers at exactly the latency the textbooks predicted. The doctor who ran the original worker evaluations says the city “was not being honest.” Follow-on to our September 10 deep dive.
Read the story →The settlement is priced on drinking water. The exposure is in the soil, the gardens, the eggs, the honey, and the fish. Follow-on to our September 11 piece.
Particulate and nitrogen dioxide exposure associated with elevated risk. The authors say it’s correlational and probably reflects vulnerable environments. That caveat is the whole article.
A federal RICO claim against 23 defendants, including 3M, DuPont, and the turnout gear makers. Connecticut firefighters’ separate suit survives. “Provide PPE” and “control exposure” have never been the same sentence, and this is the case that proves it.
Fluoropolymers for chip fabs, fluorinated fluids for cooling. Manufacturers are scaling up while regulators are trying to scale down. Long Island has data center parcels in play, and almost nobody building them has assessed the exposure.
Search your ZIP code to find potential environmental risks, nearby facilities, and the records that describe what's in your air and water.
PCR found Legionella at ten cooling towers. PCR can’t tell you if it’s alive or if it’s the outbreak strain. Culture results in two weeks. Follow-on to our September 14 piece.
Centric Compounding pulled glutathione, Myer’s Cocktail, and Tri-Immune Boost injectables. Endotoxin survives sterilization when the bacteria don’t. Here’s what that tells you about the room they were made in.
New details since our September 14 deep dive. Read that one first: “The fire they put out is the contamination.”
NPR reports measurable increases in cities that lost the State Department’s independent PM2.5 data. It’s the cleanest natural experiment we have on what monitoring itself accomplishes, and it pairs with the domestic decline I wrote about last week.
The 2024 greenhouse gas standards for fossil-fuel plants are gone. The agency put a dollar figure on the savings and didn’t put one on the health cost. Here’s the mechanism that connects a carbon rule to the air in Suffolk County.
Freeport LNG’s emission events are recurring, not exceptional. The evidence is the facility’s self-reported data, not an agency inspection. The technique is the story.
They're in rain, blood, and drinking water on every continent. We unpack what makes PFAS nearly indestructible, why the health science moved so fast, and what the new EPA limits actually change.