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Did U.S. Government Agencies Intentionally Whitewash the Toxic Footprint of a Widely Used Chemical Compound?

Two new analyses make clear the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense have downplayed the public-health threat posed by chemicals used to develop Teflon and Scotchgard.

Abrahm Lustgarten

The Lede, Issue #23: Inside New York’s Tenement Museum, Scott Pruitt’s Resignation, a New Leader for the EPA, and More

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Environmental Racism in Flint Is Much Older Than the Water Crisis

The longest-running civil rights case against the EPA has just come to a bittersweet end.

Sophie Yeo

The Poison in Our Water

As scientists sort out the best way to capture and measure the harmful microfibers that now litter most of the world's freshwater, we have no choice but to keep drinking.

Morgan Baskin

Failure at the EPA

The agency has left immigrants and minorities to fend for themselves at toxic waste sites across the country.

Kevin Stark & Winifred Bird

The West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana.

Perdido en el Humo

La agencia ha dejado a los inmigrantes y las minorías a valerse por sí mismos en los sitios de desechos tóxicos en todo el país.