Sharon Lerner

AI-driven food-delivery platforms create greater distrust and labor unrest among gig workers.

Regulators have said the pesticide chlorpyrifos is unsafe, so why is it still legal to spray on food grown in the U.S.?

Marking Earth Day at home this year? We’ve assembled a list of some of our favorite books, blogs, and articles to learn more about the fight to stop the chemical industry from polluting our homes, schools, and workplaces with toxic chemicals and achieve environmental justice for the most impacted co…

A new study of indoor dust found PFAS and other toxics that can lead to infertility, diabetes, obesity, abnormal fetal growth, and cancers.

“I have evidence here of wrongdoing and I’m determined to see this through,” scientist Jon Heylings told investigators about paraquat.

In a new book, epidemiologist Shanna Swan looks at the impact of environmental chemicals on human sexuality and reproductive systems.

A Danish study found that people with elevated levels of a compound called PFBA were more than twice as likely to have a severe form of Covid-19.

Climbing ropes, guitar strings, and hand sanitizer are among the newly reported uses for the toxic “forever” chemicals.

Life expectancy for Black people and Latinos in the U.S. will shrink dramatically as a result of the pandemic.

Facing runoff, Sen. David Perdue says climate change is a hoax, but his beach community is sure worried about rising sea levels.

On paper, America’s process for selecting judges is proofed against partisanship and corruption, while ours is open to all kinds of malfeasance. Yet in practice, our system works to reinforce and uphold the rule of law, while theirs simply does not.

The Big Bang of the nationwide “forever chemicals” crisis was the revelation in 2001 that PFOA, a toxic compound used to make Teflon, had contaminated the drinking water for 70,000 people near a DuPont factory in West Virginia. Pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency forced DuPont and othe…

Federal agents employed “a vast arsenal of weapons,” including toxic smoke grenades, against protesters in Portland.

Portland protesters report severe and lasting side effects from the chemical weapons used during Trump’s “Operation Diligent Valor.”

This week, the EPA is hosting a two-day External Peer Review Meeting to get input on yet another iteration of an industry-sponsored mathematical model, sponsored by corporate polluters that are pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to weaken its...

Gov. Greg Abbott’s voter suppression tactics have inspired voting rights advocates to redouble their efforts to get out the vote.

“Whether we can’t breathe because of toxic pollution or policing,” says Robert Bullard, “it’s the same systemic racism that is killing us.”

A combination of generic drugs appears to be more effective in fighting the coronavirus than Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir.

In a Kenyan dump overflowing with plastic waste, waste-pickers risk disease and injury to collect precious scraps for redemption.

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