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EVERETT — Perhaps the biggest surprise in a recent study of pollution in Puget Sound and other waterways was the amount of toxic material from wood soaked with creosote, a state official said.

(Beyond Pesticides, March 7, 2023) An old Kerr-McGee Wood Treatment Facility is still causing health issues among residents in Springfield, Missouri. The former site of pressure-treated railroad tie ...

More than 38,400 people from this area and other parts of the country have sought payment from a shrinking pot of money set aside for medical problems blamed on former Kerr-McGee Corp. sites, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 23, 2024) The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report last week finding that the agency has failed to establish ...

We gathered in November in the Fifth Ward Missionary Baptist Church just north of Lyons Avenue. Dr. Robert Bullard, Dr. Denae King and Dr. Earthea Nance at Texas Southern University joined nonprofit ...

Q. We are having a problem with a wood burning stove, which is in the walkout basement of our home. It smokes so bad at times the smoke alarms go off. Also, it emits a tar like substance from the ...

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - The Forrest County Board of Supervisors is asking the Attorney General's office to look in to Hattiesburg's east side and a possible creosote contamination. The board approved ...

Dear Jim: We use our wood-burning fireplace for heat. It has not been cleaned out for years and we noticed bad spots on the outdoor chimney brick. What maintenance steps can we do ourselves? -- ...

One of the true challenges of parenthood is facing questions like, “Mommy, where do the pieces of tree you put in the woodstove go?” What do you say? Do you launch into a speech on oxidation of carbon ...