“It’s outrageous — the pesticide the state uses in its mosquito spraying program has been found to contain PFAS, a group of highly toxic chemicals. Recently, tests done on the pesticide Anvil 10+10 by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and ...

“For two decades, state environmental officials have used a controversial pesticide to kill mosquitoes in Massachusetts, spraying millions of acres from the air and ground to reduce the spread of Eastern equine encephalitis. Now, after years of criticism from environmental advocates ...

“A national nonprofit revealed Tuesday that testing commissioned by the group as well as separate analysis conducted by Massachusetts officials show samples of an aerially sprayed pesticide used by the commonwealth and at least 25 other states to control mosquito-borne illnesses ...

“In a city meeting Tuesday, some Delray Beach City Commissioners strongly pushed back on claims that the city’s water is unsafe. Tuesday’s meeting also referenced comments made by Rob Long, a member of the city Planning and Zoning Board, who made comments about the city&# ...

“Delray Beach must test the city’s water for a year to monitor the level of cancer-causing chemicals. The Florida Department of Health issued the order last week in a letter to Utilities Director Hassan Hajidmiry. In his response to the state, Hajidmiry said he had planned to ask ...

“While environmental officials have yet to test a wide range of aquatic life for manmade “forever chemicals,” a Washington, D.C.-area environmental group’s lab studies detected amounts of PFAS chemicals in fish, crabs and oysters. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a ...

“In our embattled “Village by the Sea,” everything is political now — whether it’s sea grape trimming, the very public dismissal of our city manager or even our water quality. At this point, it’s hard to tell if this divisiveness is causing or resulting from repeated shake- ...

“The state Department of Health has ordered the city of Delray Beach to test its drinking water throughout next year to detect the level of cancer-causing “forever” chemicals known as PFAS. An environmental watchdog group, Florida Public Employees for Environmental ...

“As I wrote Tuesday, Long serves on the city’s planning and zoning board and also is board chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. Long used his district email account to send a recent finding by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility that ...

“City Commissioners agreed Tuesday to take the unprecedented action of removing Planning and Zoning Board member Rob Long next month if he refuses to retract statements concerning Delray Beach‘s water quality. At issue was a column Long wrote about a recent news release issued ...

“President Trump quietly appointed a new senior adviser to the federal agency responsible for investigating industrial chemical accidents — a surprise move late in the president’s lame-duck term. “This looks like an effort by the Trump administration to get someone &# ...

“An environmental watchdog group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or “PEER,” reports that there is an alarming level of “forever chemicals” found in Delray Beach’s drinking water. The report, published in October, is based on ...

“Florida has hundreds of private and public sewers. They are vital for protecting human health. They can be an asset or a villain in the struggle to heal sickly rivers and coastal waters. Sewage challenges will amplify with population growth and as rising sea levels drown sewers of ...

“The Nov. 15 editorial “To catch a killer” ​was spot on as far as the world’s need to learn from the current pandemic to prevent the next one. It identified several concrete steps but omitted one. ​A​ travesty​ occurred​ in ​April​ when President Trump, based ...

“President Donald Trump‘s late-in-term appointment of a former Northrop Grumman Corp. vice president as an adviser to the federal chemical safety board has raised eyebrows in the worker advocacy community. As the Trump administration winds down, there is also the question of Lemos ...

“More testing has found so-called “forever chemicals” in a striped bass, blue crab and oyster from the Chesapeake Bay, as well as in drinking water from household taps in Maryland’s Montgomery County. Laboratory analyses released by the nonprofit group Public Employees for ...

“Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia wants to purge a member of the planning and zoning board for saying something that she didn’t like. Rob Long is that board member. A civil engineer by training, he’s also chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. ...

“The National Park Service has issued a first-round denial to NASA’s request to conserve one of America’s most contaminated sites, a move that critics said would allow the government to sidestep cleanup efforts. NASA applied to add the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near ...

“Today, four years into its second century, the National Park Service is stumbling forward into a new era, without a plan, a leader or, most importantly, a vision for how to both protect and enhance what is often called America’s best idea. The agency has just received one of the ...

“The non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charges that RIDEM has failed to enforce the Clean Water Act. “One of Rhode Island’s picturesque waterfronts appears to have a chronic sewage problem requiring immediate enforcement action, according to a ...