A few weeks after the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire raged through parts of northern California, Gerald and Serene Buhrz returned to their Santa Rosa home, turned on the kitchen sink faucet, and were hit ...
Notably, this week’s study did not find benzene (at least not at levels above the FDA’s limit) in about 70 products, including benzoyl peroxide acne treatments from Clean & Clear, Neutrogena, ...
Some workers at oil and gas sites where fracking occurs are routinely exposed to high levels of benzene, a colorless gas that can cause cancer, according to a study by the National Institute for ...
Benzene is big business. A natural part of crude oil, the chemical is a starting material for plastics, drugs, detergents, and more. Yet because of the molecule’s hardiness, limited chemical pathways ...
This article was reported by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization. CHANNELVIEW, Texas — For nearly 20 years, Texas environmental regulators have kept a ...