3M’s $12.5 billion PFAS settlement leaves private well owners out
3M's own filing says it admitted nothing, and no judge ever ruled on who caused the contamination. The money goes…
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Starlink says its U.S. subscriber count tripled to 7 million in 11 months
An FCC report credits Starlink with more than 7 million U.S. subscribers, up from the 2 million SpaceX reported to…
PFAS turned up more often in big-city water systems than in small towns
In EPA testing, PFAS appeared in 42.4% of large water systems and 28.4% of small ones, with the sharpest gap…
Bright bedrooms were linked to 56% more heart failure in a 9.5-year study
In a long-running cohort, people sleeping in the brightest rooms faced a 56% higher heart failure risk. Four cardiology groups…
Arsenic at the U.S. legal limit doubled type 1 diabetes risk in children
Children exposed before birth to drinking water at the U.S. legal arsenic limit were twice as likely to develop type…
Swapping gas stoves for induction cut asthma ER visits in Cleveland homes
In 72 households where asthma was poorly controlled, replacing gas stoves with induction cut nitrogen dioxide and reduced emergency visits…
Red tide toxins can drift 2.6 miles inland and into your home
Waves break red tide algae apart and throw brevetoxin into the air, where researchers kept finding it up to 2.6…
A damaged water line can pull fire toxins straight into tap water
One utility found fire-related contamination in more than half the service connections it tested near burned lots. Boiling can make…
Toxic chemicals under your home can rise through the same cracks as radon
Soil gas can carry both natural radon and man-made solvents or fuel vapors up through the same openings in a…
In 4 states, mold inspectors can’t be the ones who sell the fix
Texas, Florida, New York, and Louisiana bar the same company from both judging a mold problem and billing to solve…
That 99.97% on a HEPA filter box is its worst score
The rating is measured at 0.3 microns, the particle size a filter has the hardest time catching. Both larger and…
Most new homes studied had their required ventilation fan switched off
Field teams found the whole-house ventilation fan running in just 18 of 70 new California homes, and only 12 had…
Ozone follows different rules depending on whether anyone is in the room
A trained operator using ozone in an empty building isn't breaking federal rules, but no agency has approved the same…
2 childhood cancers were higher where PFOS was in the water, but most were not
Two rare cancers came back higher in districts where PFOS had been detected, while the biggest cancer group, leukemia, showed…
Home inspectors don’t check for mold, radon, water quality, or septic problems
A standard home inspection is visual and noninvasive, which leaves mold, radon, water quality, lead paint, septic systems, and buried…
Avoiding plastic for a week cut some chemicals in urine by a third
In a 7-day randomized trial, 3 chemicals fell by a third or more when adults ate from a supply chain…
One state calls a $700 radon quote normal. Another says walk away
Missouri says a $700 radon quote can be normal, while Minnesota treats a price that low as a warning sign…
Nobody tests private wells, and 13% exceed a federal drinking-water limit
Private wells have no routine inspector, no required monthly sample, and no rule saying they should. The biggest survey of…
Half the wireless around you comes from towers. The rest is closer
Researchers walking 38 routes across New York City found that half of measured exposure came from towers talking to phones…
Most federal heat-risk levels depend on whether your house cools down
The federal HeatRisk scale grades outdoor air, but 4 of its 5 levels hinge on whether someone can cool off…
The CDC Counts a Fever and a Cough as Flu. Nothing Is Swabbed
The definition once required that no other cause be known. The CDC dropped that line after the 2021-22 season, so…
The Color on Your Air Quality App Is a Forecast, and Your Town May Have No Monitor at All
A live measurement also exists, and it appears in the same color in the same app. Nothing emits ozone; sunlight…
The 9.0 Figure on Your Monitor Was Written About the Air Over a Whole State
EPA says on its own site it has no authority over indoor air quality. Its 9.0 describes outdoor air over…
Your Water Company Must Send You a Consumer Confidence Report by July 1 Every Year
Every community water system has to put its water source in writing and get it to you by 1 July…
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