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Topic: environmental health

Cleaning up: On August 31, 2018, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that the United States Air Force has started up an additional granular activated carbon filtration system to capture historic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination caused by the use of firefighting foam at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy)

The fight against “forever chemicals”

Michael Green - Truthout
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

5 ways to shift to sustainable behavior

David J. Hardisty, Katherine White, Rishad Habib - The Conversation
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, photo, a worker walks across an area where coal ash removal is underway at the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy Corp. is digging up and hauling away the toxic coal residues two years after one of the worst coal-ash spills in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Coal ash contains toxic chemicals

Laura Mast
(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Is air pollution making you sick?

Richard E. Peltier - The Conversation
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(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Noise pollution worse in poor 'hoods

Joan A. Casey, Peter James, Rachel Morello-Frosch - The Conversation
(Reuters)

Dan Ross - FairWarning
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