New Environmental Protection Agency and Union Pacific Railroad test results show elevated levels of "highly toxic" compounds, known as dioxins, outside the Julia C. Hester House. The dioxin levels ...

Harris County officials, including Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Congressman Sylvester Turner, will address the public about the EPA's findings of dioxin contamination at the Julia C. Hester House in ...

Ever since Feb. 3, 2023, residents of East Palestine have struggled with serious health conditions that were nonexistent ...

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) are toxic compounds that can be released into the environment during the incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW) and hazardous waste.

When the grenade is fired, the compounds inside, which include chlorine and organic matter, can turn into highly toxic dioxins. Dioxins pose a serious health threat. According to the WHO ...

The compounds included Particulate Matter, Hydrogen Chloride, Sulphar Dioxide, Carbon Mono-oxide, total organic carbon, Carbon dioxide, Hydrogen fluride, Nitrogen’s oxide, dioxins and flurans ...

An additional US$130 million has been added to a dioxin decontamination project at Bien Hoa Airport in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam, bringing the total funding to $430 million. During a ...

In 2020, the City of Lausanne found that large areas of its soil had been contaminated with dioxins, which are chlorinated organic compounds. This pollution was due mainly to combustion-reliant ...

POPs are very stable compounds that are not readily degraded ... The POPs family includes dioxins, which commonly refers to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDD) and polychlorinated ...