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The advisory covers some of the most popular, free-to-the public watering holes ... up positive for dangerous concentrations of hexavalent chromium. The chemical, however, is not easily removed ...

Hexavalent chromium is a carcinogen that was made famous by the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich,” which dramatized a case of industrial pollution that contaminated water supplies in California.

Thirty years ago, the limit for hexavalent chromium in Sweden was set at 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air. It is a technically calculated value that was determined based on what industry was ...

The European Commission (EC) requested that the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) assess the risks posed by certain hexavalent chromium ...

Nearly 6 million Michigan residents drink, cook with and otherwise use tap water with an unregulated heavy metal, hexavalent chromium, at levels above where scientific study shows a cancer risk ...

The company allegedly overrode alarm warnings and released insufficiently treated wastewater with elevated levels of potentially health-harming hexavalent chromium into into the Wixom sewer system.

Hexavalent chromium, a substance known to cause cancer, was found in four soil samples taken from the public trail at Bartram's Garden last week. DEP also tested four surface water samples from ...

They both have a good reason to be concerned. Three tests – conducted separately by Friends of the Earth Japan, Palawan authorities, and PCIJ – confirmed unsafe levels of hexavalent chromium in bodies ...