SEJ
Published on SEJ (https://www.sej.org)

Home > Chemicals

Chemical Safety Board May Have Finally Cleaned Its Slate. What Now? [1]

A key U.S. federal agency tasked with investigating the nation’s industrial chemical accidents has been limping along for years. Now, the latest Issue Backgrounder reports that replenished staffing and a funding boost may mean it’s found its footing. But as the pace of chemical accidents accelerates and safety regulations stagnate, will it make a difference?

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Government [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Policy [8]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Asia [11]
Visibility: 
Public [12]
  • Read more about Chemical Safety Board May Have Finally Cleaned Its Slate. What Now? [1]

Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [13]

A new Spill Tracker website is a good source of information on chemical spills, albeit one with an agenda. But according to the latest Reporter’s Toolbox, it’s just one among a set of powerful resources for covering dangerous releases, large and small. More on Spill Tracker, plus another half-dozen-plus government and nonprofit data sources on petrochemical incidents.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Reporters Toolbox [14]
Topics on the Beat: 
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Government [6]
Journalism & Media [17]
Pollution [18]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [9]
International [10]
Visibility: 
Public [12]
  • Read more about Spill-Tracking Data Sources Help Cover Hazmat Events [13]

NewsNation Journalist Lambert Wins $80,000 Judgment Vs. Ohio City, County [19]

"A city and county in Ohio have agreed to pay $112,000 to resolve NewsNation journalist Evan Lambert’s federal civil rights lawsuit, which stemmed from his unlawful arrest last year while covering a press conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio."

Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Journalism & Media [17]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press [21], 02/23/2024
  • Read more about NewsNation Journalist Lambert Wins $80,000 Judgment Vs. Ohio City, County [19]

Dead Livestock And Poisoned Water — Texas Farmers Sue Over PFAS Pollution [22]

"Two Texas farm families have seen their health decline, their pets and livestock sickened and killed, their water poisoned and and their property values wiped out due to high levels of chemical contamination linked to a company marketing treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer and soil conditioner, according to a lawsuit filed by the families."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Waste [24]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Source: The New Lede [26], 02/22/2024
  • Read more about Dead Livestock And Poisoned Water — Texas Farmers Sue Over PFAS Pollution [22]

"Supreme Court Likely To Block EPA Ozone Regulation" [27]

"The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a group of states, companies, and trade associations seeking to temporarily block a rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce air pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states that do not want to adjust their emissions policies."

Air [28]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [29]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: SCOTUSblog [30], 02/22/2024
  • Read more about "Supreme Court Likely To Block EPA Ozone Regulation" [27]

Lax Calif. Pesticide Regulation Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges [31]

"A broad coalition of pesticide-reform groups representing California farmworkers and their families called on the state attorney general to investigate systematic civil rights violations last week at a press briefing in Watsonville, a strawberry-growing stronghold about 90 miles south of San Francisco."

Activism [32]
Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [12]
California [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 02/21/2024
  • Read more about Lax Calif. Pesticide Regulation Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges [31]

"Trump-ERA EPA Chemicals Chief To Lead Pesticides Group" [35]

"Alexandra Dunn, who led the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention for two years, has been named CropLife America’s new president and CEO."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [36], 02/21/2024
  • Read more about "Trump-ERA EPA Chemicals Chief To Lead Pesticides Group" [35]

"Biden Admin Advances Two-Pronged Clampdown On Toxic Air Pollution" [37]

"The Biden administration is advancing two major rules to limit toxic air pollution from refineries, coal-fired power plants and other industrial operations."

Air [28]
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [29]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: E&E News [38], 02/20/2024
  • Read more about "Biden Admin Advances Two-Pronged Clampdown On Toxic Air Pollution" [37]

‘They Lied’: Plastics Producers Deceived Public About Recycling - Report [39]

"Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report."

Chemicals [3]
Consumer [40]
Environmental Health [16]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Waste [24]
Water & Oceans [41]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Source: Guardian [42], 02/19/2024
  • Read more about ‘They Lied’: Plastics Producers Deceived Public About Recycling - Report [39]

Pregnant Women In Indiana Show 4X Increase In Toxic Weedkiller In Urine [43]

"Pregnant women in a key US farm state are showing increasing amounts of a toxic weedkiller in their urine, a rise that comes alongside climbing use of the chemicals in agriculture, according to a study published on Friday."

Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [16]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Public [12]
National (U.S.) [9]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [20]
Source: Guardian [44], 02/19/2024
  • Read more about Pregnant Women In Indiana Show 4X Increase In Toxic Weedkiller In Urine [43]

Pages

  • « first [3]
  • ‹ previous [45]
  • …
  • 90 [46]
  • 91 [47]
  • 92 [48]
  • 93 [45]
  • 94
  • 95 [49]
  • 96 [50]
  • 97 [51]
  • 98 [52]
  • …
  • next › [49]
  • last » [53]
  • Contact Us  |
  • Donate  |
  • Join  |
  • Members  |
  • Privacy & Security Policies  |
  • Reach SEJ Members  |
  • Renew  |
  • Site Map
The Society of Environmental Journalists
1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: (202) 558-2055
Email: sej@sej.org
© 2026 The Society of Environmental Journalists. All Rights Reserved.
All graphics © SEJ, unless otherwise stated.

Source URL:https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=93

Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/chemical-safety-board-may-have-finally-cleaned-its-slate-what-now [2] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/backgrounders [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy [9] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/asia [12] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [13] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/spill-tracking-data-sources-help-cover-hazmat-events [14] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/reporter%E2%80%99s-toolbox [15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/newsnation-journalist-lambert-wins-80000-judgment-vs-ohio-city-county [20] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes [21] https://www.rcfp.org/evan-lambert-judgment/ [22] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dead-livestock-and-poisoned-water-texas-farmers-sue-over-pfas-pollution [23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [25] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest [26] https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/02/dead-livestock-and-poisoned-water-texas-farmers-sue-over-pfas-contamination/ [27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/supreme-court-likely-block-epa-ozone-regulation [28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/air [29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [30] https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/supreme-court-likely-to-block-epa-ozone-regulation/ [31] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lax-calif-pesticide-regulation-violates-civil-rights-laws-coalition-charges [32] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [33] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/california [34] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20022024/california-pesticide-regulators-lax-oversight-violates-civil-rights-laws/ [35] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-era-epa-chemicals-chief-lead-pesticides-group [36] https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-era-epa-chemicals-chief-to-lead-pesticides-group/ [37] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-admin-advances-two-pronged-clampdown-toxic-air-pollution [38] https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-admin-advances-two-pronged-clampdown-on-toxic-air-pollution/ [39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/they-lied-plastics-producers-deceived-public-about-recycling-report [40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [42] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report [43] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pregnant-women-indiana-show-4x-increase-toxic-weedkiller-urine [44] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/16/indiana-pregnant-women-weedkiller-exposure [45] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=92 [46] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=89 [47] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=90 [48] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=91 [49] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=94 [50] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=95 [51] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=96 [52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=97 [53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics?page=500