chemicals

U of M chemist Anne McNeil talks environmental cleanup and finding a new purpose for polymers used in diapers through upcycling — and cleaning, of course.

New reporting from MLive has found that Selfridge Air National Guard Base is a major source of chemical contamination in the Clinton River and Lake St.…

PFAS is a family of chemicals often used in the manufacturing of nonstick and waterproof products. In the past several years, the chemicals have been…

Update: On June 18th, 2018, The Home Depot announced it would phase out paint stripping products containing methylene chloride and NMP by the end of the…

Lowe's Home Improvement will stop selling hazardous paint stripper products by the end of the year, and replace them with safer, greener alternatives.…

Michigan public health experts are calling on Lowe's Home Improvement to voluntarily pull chemical paint strippers containing methylene chloride from…

Antidepressants that people take are building up in the brains of fish like walleye, bass, and perch. Researchers studied fish from the Niagara River,…

Researchers have found some kinds of chemicals are harder to filter from water.These compounds belong to a family called highly fluorinated chemicals.…

A lot of different chemicals end up in our rivers and streams.Researchers are finding these mixtures of chemicals are more complex than we thought, and it…

Flame retardants are in a lot of products we use: furniture, carpet padding, electronics, car seats and baby products. Some types of flame retardants…