For much of the summer, Lake Okeechobee suffocates under toxic, blue-green algae blooms fed by fertilizer runoff from farms. The blooms recently subsided, but Hurricane Idalia could cause further cycles of growth and rot. That’s because storms can send additional fertilizer runoff down the Kissimmee River and other waterways, stir up pollution from the lake…
Juan López had just returned home from his job supervising the cleaning of giant tanks that hold toxic chemicals produced along the Houston Ship Channel, one of the largest petrochemical complexes in the world. He was ready to sit down to dinner with his wife, Pamela López, and their four school-age children at their small…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — When a team came by the morning of Valentine’s Day to test the air quality in Maggie Guglielmo’s store a few blocks from where a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed this month, the smell was undeniable. “The air monitoring team left within 10 minutes due to the unpleasant/overwhelming odor,” the…