Four months after officials reported worrying levels of cancer-causing dioxins in soil at the Julia C. Hester House in Fifth ...

Small quantities of dioxins can be formed during VCM production, although the contribution of VCM production to the overall environmental burden of dioxin is uncertain (EPA, 1994a). Dioxins can ...

Of the PCDD/F congeners, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and 1,2,3,7,8-pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin have been studied in the greatest detail with TCDD considered the most potent congener ...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and Commissioner Rodney Ellis announced Tuesday the EPA’s soil test results for the Julia C. Hester House/ Solo Street Greenspace in the Greater Fifth ...

were forced to abandon their town forever because the Environmental Protection Agency found high levels of a chemical called dioxin. At the time, dioxin was considered one of the world's most ...

Testing of eggs laid by chickens in Tropodo, a village of 5,000 people, found high levels of several hazardous chemicals including dioxin — a pollutant known to cause cancer, birth defects and P ...

Martin believed the high cancer rate was caused by dioxin produced by the paper mill. (Dioxin, the generic name for a family of 75 related compounds, is an unintentional byproduct of the paper ...

The results of the first sampling cycle conducted on May 29 and 30 by Arpac after the fire that broke out in the late ...

Toxicologist Stephen Lester, science director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), has worked with communities affected by dioxin contamination for more than four decades.

The shutdown left exposed open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange, which the American military sprayed across large swaths of the country during the ...

The control system is too lax, and information policy is a disaster. The most recent dioxin scare shows that the authorities have learned very little from the food safety scandals of the past.

The long-running and costly health scare over dioxin has finally been debunked. Admittedly, the Environmental Protection Agency recently said dioxin is 10 times more dangerous than the agency ...