The industrial age has brought millions of pounds of toxic contaminants into our environment. Pollution, synthetic chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals and even chemicals from household products are ...

Faculty and graduate students at UMass Lowell have started a new research project to find safer alternatives to PFAS based surfactants. The Toxics Use Reduction Institute is funding Professor ...

In an interview prior to November’s election, Kennedy talked about how the Democratic Party has largely forgotten about toxics. And he’s not wrong. Democrats have largely doubled down and bet ...

A report released in January by the Toxic Use Reduction Institute of Massachusetts’s, hosted at UMass Lowell, identified a ...