A Connecticut resident described bumblebees coming back to the same flower with insecticide on it: “it’s like they’re getting ...

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 ...

Several bills have been filed dealing with herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals that affect animals and, in some ...

Levels of the compound believed to be a human carcinogen at the Asheboro wastewater treatment plant far exceeded national limits in late January.

The City of Asheboro’s 1,4-dioxane pollution surged in recent months — reaching a record concentration of 3,520 parts per billion on Jan. 24 — following a judge’s decision to stop ...

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.

Tests released February 7 by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) show that Asheboro has dumped extremely high ...

Water quality levels in Sanford remain safe and unchanged after reports of elevated 1,4-dioxane levels in the North Carolina Piedmont, according to a release.

Helping people be kinder to the planet, Clean People Laundry Detergent Sheets use plastic-free, paper packaging instead of ...

Kip Tabb, an Outer Banks resident who reports for Coastal Review and other area publications, documents his walk along the ...

Now, those cities — Asheboro, Greensboro and Reidsville — are taking full advantage of the court’s decision, dumping massive amounts of an odorless, colorless industrial solvent known as 1,4-dioxane ...