What exactly can the chemical found in Teflon do to your health? We chat with a reporter who's covered the class-action lawsuit over the health impacts of Dupont's C8.
The Allegheny County Health Department has been so late in keeping up on its paperwork for air quality permits that three environmental groups are asking the U.S. EPA to get involved.
It's not that companies aren't applying to renew their permits. It's that government regulators are failing to act on new applications—sometimes for years.
Shell's new petrochemical facility in western Pennsylvania could bring emissions of some air pollutants back to levels the region hasn't seen since the 1990s.
New data from the state's Department of Environmental Protection reveals that a wide variety of air pollutants are still a problem at Pennsylvania's oil and gas sites.
Environmental and health advocates have long suspected a link between chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism. Now, one group says the growing body of evidence warrants public action.
