Environmental Protection Agency ethics officials have interpreted impartiality guidelines in a way that has allowed several former industry insiders to oversee dramatic changes to chemical regulations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The proposal, which was introduced in 2023 and has been paused several times since then, would essentially ban the use of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black ...

A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the EPA locked in a formaldehyde risk evaluation built on the Agency’s long-controversial IRIS assessment—only for the next EPA to do something genuinely ...

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict. Reading time 3 minutes The Trump administration ...

In December 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency released the final risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for formaldehyde. A year later, in December 2025, the EPA ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Formaldehyde-releasing chemicals will no longer be allowed in cosmetic products manufactured or sold in Washington, starting January 1, 2027. The restrictions on ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales of cotton produced annually in the U.S. will be used in clothing manufacturing. The finishing techniques used to make cotton fabric ...

Untreated cotton fabric absorbs water droplets (top) and cotton fabric treated with a form of cottonseed oil repels water (bottom). WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales ...