The Delaware County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) held its functional exercise Wednesday morning and did a tabletop simulation of a train derailment that spills hazardous chemicals in ...

Officials with a small but mighty California agency known as the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment said they ...

In a study published in PNAS Nexus, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) described a new deep ...

The community feedback session meant to push the East Palestine Park project’s ballooned budget back under its $25 million ...

Friday's train derailment resulted in a "significant hazardous materials spill," Mount Carmel Mayor Joe Judge told Newsweek.

Dixie Highway has reopened after being closed in both directions due to a hazardous chemical spill in Fairfield Thursday evening, according to the City of Fairfield Police Department.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection was advising East Brady Borough Water System customers not to drink or boil tap water after "unusual water sample results" were reported at ...

The recent announcement that the National Institutes of Health agreed to a five-year, $10 million research initiative to examine the long-term health effects caused by the East Palestine train ...

Fairfield police closed Ohio Highway 4 in both directions between Ross Road and Seward Road just before 5 p.m. due to the spill.

The NIH says that it plans to monitor the ongoing health of East Palestine residents, and to address community concerns moving forward.

The East Palestine incident underscores the broader role of the EPA in managing environmental and human health disasters, from hurricanes and floods to chemical spills and oil leaks.