Shamrock, with a facility in Browns Summit, is involved in handling 1,4-dioxane, a controversial synthetic industrial chemical that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified as a likely ...

Hempstead Village’s drinking water contains “unacceptable” levels of 1,4 dioxane, a likely carcinogen. Now they’re getting $1.75 million to do something about it. “Hempstead Village is ...

On November 14, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) determined that 1,4-dioxane presents an unreasonable risk of injury to human health under ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has created a human health risk assessment of 1,4-dioxane in drinking water. “1,4-dioxane is a clear liquid ...

The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant's 1,4-dioxane discharge reached 3,520 parts per billion—more than 10,000 times the chemical’s cancer risk threshold.

An Asheboro sewage treatment plant discharged an unusually high level of a toxic “forever chemical” into a tributary of the Deep River about two weeks ago, the North Carolina Department ...