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A JAMA paper and the newly released city records, read together: the World Trade Center exposure is producing cancers at exactly the latency the textbooks predicted. The doctor who ran the original worker evaluations says the city “was not being honest.” Follow-on to our September 10 deep dive.
Fluoropolymers for chip fabs, fluorinated fluids for cooling. Manufacturers are scaling up while regulators are trying to scale down. Long Island has data center parcels in play, and almost nobody building them has assessed the exposure.
Particulate and nitrogen dioxide exposure associated with elevated risk. The authors say it’s correlational and probably reflects vulnerable environments. That caveat is the whole article.
PCR found Legionella at ten cooling towers. PCR can’t tell you if it’s alive or if it’s the outbreak strain. Culture results in two weeks. Follow-on to our September 14 piece.
Centric Compounding pulled glutathione, Myer’s Cocktail, and Tri-Immune Boost injectables. Endotoxin survives sterilization when the bacteria don’t. Here’s what that tells you about the room they were made in.
The settlement is priced on drinking water. The exposure is in the soil, the gardens, the eggs, the honey, and the fish. Follow-on to our September 11 piece.
New details since our September 14 deep dive. Read that one first: “The fire they put out is the contamination.”
NPR reports measurable increases in cities that lost the State Department’s independent PM2.5 data. It’s the cleanest natural experiment we have on what monitoring itself accomplishes, and it pairs with the domestic decline I wrote about last week.
The 2024 greenhouse gas standards for fossil-fuel plants are gone. The agency put a dollar figure on the savings and didn’t put one on the health cost. Here’s the mechanism that connects a carbon rule to the air in Suffolk County.
Freeport LNG’s emission events are recurring, not exceptional. The evidence is the facility’s self-reported data, not an agency inspection. The technique is the story.
A federal RICO claim against 23 defendants, including 3M, DuPont, and the turnout gear makers. Connecticut firefighters’ separate suit survives. “Provide PPE” and “control exposure” have never been the same sentence, and this is the case that proves it.
A federal judge is weighing whether the glyphosate settlement is fair. Awards from $10,000 to $165,000. Bayer keeps selling. The exposure question stays open, which means the documentation question does too.
The AP found that one in five service lines nationwide is of unknown material, and 3,500 utilities admit they don’t know. The replacement clock starts in 2027. Here’s what “unknown” means for the person at the tap.
Mount Sinai followed 18,734 WTC responders for 25 years and found that hotter, more polluted neighborhoods raised their risk of frailty, PTSD, and depression, and that the most-exposed responders were the most sensitive to it. That’s cumulative risk, in a workforce you know.
A supplemental notice asks how to define “relatively permanent” and “continuous surface connection.” Comments close October 9. The practical question is whether your next shoreline job needs a federal permit or a state one.
Salmonella Bovismorbificans across four western states, traced to one grower. The product got pulled. Nobody told the people who’d already bought it.
An Inside Climate News investigation traces the lobbying that stopped the bill. The exposure pathway it leaves open is one most consultants aren’t tracking yet.
Candy bottles, finger lights, fridge magnets, loungewear, fire spray, bike helmets, and a gas range. Here’s what each one actually does and what to do about it.
CSB’s update on the April hydrogen sulfide release in Institute, West Virginia: no written procedures, four respirators with the wrong cartridges, no gas monitors, and two of the dead were rescuers. This is a decommissioning failure, and decommissioning is where hazard assessment goes to die.
Communities across the country are pushing back on what comes out of the cooling systems. Biocides, metals, treatment chemicals, and a lot of volume.
EPA has signaled it will propose scaling back the 2024 rule covering ethylene oxide, chloroprene, and fenceline air monitoring at about 220 chemical plants. Here’s what the rule requires, what the monitors measure, and why the data matters more than the limit.
The Fifth Circuit, en banc, dismissed claims from Jackson, Mississippi residents who alleged officials knowingly let lead into the water. The ruling is narrower than the headline and bigger than it sounds.
Researchers grouped 15,000-plus food contact chemicals by structure and flagged 4,222 in 38 priority groups. The method matters as much as the number.
About 1,835 Lontcs busy boards, sold on Amazon for around $31. Stop using it, get a refund. And notice what CPSC didn’t publish.
New York City released its internal post-9/11 air quality records. They show officials documenting asbestos in the dust while telling residents the air was safe. For anyone who does exposure work, this is the field’s central cautionary tale, finally in primary sources.
The city announced five measures after the summer cluster. The compliance number is the one to remember.
New research links living near pyrethroid and organophosphate applications to higher gestational diabetes risk. The exposure metric is proximity, not handling. That’s the part worth paying attention to.
A new study using single urine samples didn’t find the pesticide-neurodevelopment link that years of longitudinal research found. That’s not a contradiction. It’s a lesson in sampling design, and it’s the same one that decides whether your air monitoring means anything.
Wisconsin researchers used 115 bald eagle nestlings as PFAS detectors and found different chemical “fingerprints” by region. This is source apportionment. It’s the most useful idea in PFAS work that nobody explains, so here it is.
Three years after the STURDY Act, dressers are still failing it. Here’s this week’s list, what each hazard actually is, and the ten-minute fixes.
A draft TSCA risk evaluation puts cleanup crews inside the exposure math. Comments are open until November 3.
E. coli O145:H28, frozen blueberries, and now Great Value Triple Berry Blend in 16 states. The first product named is almost never the last one.
Mistolin and Lestoil multi-purpose cleaners may contain Pseudomonas aeruginosa. If someone in your house is immunocompromised or on a nebulizer, read this one.
The Guardian built an interactive on the state’s plastic waste stream. It’s background, not a compliance item. Read it anyway, because on Long Island, disposal capacity is the whole ballgame.
From Class SD to Class I. Comments open September 16, hearings in November, and a $3.4 billion sewage tunnel behind it.
NIOSH bought counterfeit P100 filters and cartridges and tested them. Nearly all of them failed. Here’s the step that’s missing from most respiratory protection programs, and how to add it in ten minutes.
Proposed 6 NYCRR Parts 360 and 363 would be the first rule in the country to make landfills treat leachate for PFAS before it goes to a sewage plant. The comment window closed September 9. The fight over what “treat” means is just starting.
Third delay in a year. Forty-plus sites have PFAS in nearby drinking water. Here’s what “interim measures” means for the people living next door, and why it’s a Long Island story.
An advocacy group wants governors to ban drift-prone pesticides. Take the advocacy for what it is. The exposure-science point underneath it is solid.
A new global estimate says roughly 46% of farmworkers are acutely poisoned every year. The study’s own authors say it’s badly undercounted. That failure mode should sound familiar to anyone who runs a safety program.
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