Dioxin was the contaminant of concern at Love Canal and Times Beach and in the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange. EPA has been “reassessing” the alleged hazards of dioxin for almost 10 years. The ...

Trump Administration Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning. Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up ...

The case of dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 with TCCD is a textbook case of this disease. Follow-up occupational studies found that highly exposed workers had an ...

Hurricane Harvey caused dioxin, one of the most potent human carcinogens, to leak from the San Jacinto Waste Pits, posing a threat to fish and public health, the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Dioxin, an industrial byproduct with many different types, is among multiple pollutants that consultants say have drained off the site to the river.

When the Environmental Protection Agency last week ordered testing for dioxins after the recent train derailment and fire in East Palestine, Ohio, it acknowledged that residents could be facing a ...

Dioxin concentrations in soil, moss, and backyard chicken eggs exceeded EU safety limits at all three locations. In Paris’ Ivry-sur-Seine district, ...

A study claims that dioxin levels within Ben & Jerry's ice cream exceed levels the EPA finds acceptable for other industries. The ice cream makers say the study is a "smokescreen." From the ...

A recent draft report from the Oregon Health Authority found high levels of dioxin contamination in some yards in a Eugene neighborhood. Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that can cause cancer ...

Dioxin is highly toxic, and it can cause cancer.The EPA said its own soil tests have revealed no unusual amounts of dioxin.But an independent test outside a hardware store near the derailment site ...

That project, completed in 2018, treated 150,000 cubic meters of dioxin-laden soil at an eventual cost of over $115 million, paid mostly by the US Agency for International Development, or USAID.