Chemical Safety

a nurse bandages a patient after a vaccination

September 22, 2025

The Empty Promises and Grim Reality of “MAHA”

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

a cleanup crew monitors a field near the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site.

Michael Swenson / Getty Images

March 3, 2025

The East Palestine Chemical Disaster Shows the Need for a Cumulative Impacts Approach

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

a cloud of smoke seen from a neighborhood in East Palestine, Ohio after a train derailment.

Orlowski Designs / Getty Images

February 20, 2025

How Scientific Integrity Could Have Prevented the East Palestine Train Disaster

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

a cleanup crew monitors a field near the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment site.

Michael Swenson / Getty Images

February 6, 2025

What’s Happened in the Two Years Since the East Palestine Disaster?

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

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RapidEye/Getty Images

April 19, 2024

Earth Day Is a Day to Celebrate the Environmental Progress We’ve Made in Recent Years

Chitra Kumar
Managing Director, Climate and Energy Program

Asbestos removal

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April 3, 2024

A Triumph and Disgrace: The Very Slow Road to Banning Asbestos

Derrick Z. Jackson
Fellow

chemical plant behind a fence

Gretchen Goldman/UCS

June 27, 2023

EPA Must Protect Communities from Sterilizer Plants’ Carcinogenic Emissions

Guest Commentary

Smoke from chemical fire in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina

DOD/National Archives

May 31, 2023

EPA: Don’t Delay Strong Rules to Help Prevent Chemical Disasters

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

ethylene oxide hotspots in MN

March 1, 2023

Minnesota Can Do More to Protect People from Ethylene Oxide Emissions

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

February 7, 2023

Ethylene Oxide: New Interactive Map Shows Communities Impacted by Cancer-Causing Chemical

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

David Goldman/AP

October 6, 2022

What is Ethylene Oxide? Answers to Your Questions about the Cancer-Causing Chemical

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Silent Spring/Rachel Carson

US Fish and Wildlife

September 22, 2022

Why Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Still Resonates Today

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

A grey sky blends with clouds of emissions from a petrochemical plant in Detroit, MI, seen through a chainlink fence

September 14, 2022

Ethylene Oxide at the Intersection of Climate, Environment, and Social Justice

UCS Science Network

August 19, 2022

Will the Biden Administration’s Chemical Disaster Rule Finally Make Communities Safer?

Genna Reed
Former Staff

A refinery in Delaware City is shown with one of its vents blasting fire

June 29, 2022

Healthcare Professionals Ask EPA to Protect Frontline Communities

UCS Science Network

Sun either rises or sets above or below a complicated-looking facility on a river in Tempe, Arizona

Troy Squillaci/Pexels

March 18, 2022

Your Voice Is Needed as EPA Updates its Rule on Risk Management of Chemical Facilities

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

a woman stands at a window, cleaning. she is wearing protective equipment: gloves, goggles, and a mask.

July 26, 2021

Protecting Our Families’ Health, Protecting Our Future: The LUCIR study

UCS Science Network

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July 15, 2021

The Little Chemical Agency That Could…and Should Do More to Prevent Chemical Disasters

Genna Reed
Former Staff

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January 15, 2021

5 (Recent) Actions That Epitomize Andrew Wheeler’s Caustic Chemical Safety Legacy

Genna Reed
Former Staff

December 4, 2019

Communities Face Harm When the EPA Dismantles Chemical Safety Protections

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

November 15, 2019

The Terrible Thing about EPA’s Restricted Science Rule that We Aren’t Talking About

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

Rama/Wikimedia Commons

September 24, 2019

By Phasing Out Animal Testing, the EPA Could Turn You into the Guinea Pig

Anita Desikan
Former Staff

June 10, 2019

Under Our Noses: PFAS Contamination in Southern Colorado

UCS Science Network

Photo: US Air Force

November 27, 2018

EPA Chemical Office Nominee Alexandra Dunn Must Prioritize Science and Public Health

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS