The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant's 1,4-dioxane discharge reached 3,520 parts per billion—more than 10,000 times the ...

Elevated levels of a potential cancer-causing chemical drained into the largest river basin in North Carolina earlier this year, according to state officials. The North Carolina Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...