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 ...

An upstream wastewater facility released record levels of a toxic chemical into the drinking water supply of the tri-county ...

Nobody is putting 1,4-dioxane into shampoo on purpose. It’s a carcinogenic impurity that forms in a side reaction during the production of ethoxylated alcohols, a class of surfactants used in ...

The State reported that a study by the Environmental Integrity Project, a watchdog organization, uncovered that factories near Columbia and Charleston released high levels of 1,4-dioxane into the ...

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.

DEQ detected elevated levels of 1,4-dioxane in a sample collected on January 24 from the City of Asheboro’s wastewater ...