This story is a product of an NBC News investigation in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization. Joshua Farinella had been working in the seafood industry for eight years when he received an exotic job offer too lucrative to pass up — managing a shrimp factory in southern India. The salary: […]
Almost half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a study from the US Geological Survey. The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren’t able to test for all of these […]
Residents who live near the massive Rivian EV plant site in east Georgia off I-20, say silt from the graded land is seeping into the water table and contaminating their drinking well water. The co-founder of Rescue Ranch, a foster compound for medically challenged dogs and other animals, told Channel 2′s Tom Regan that the […]
Mar. 2—Jose Villegas has been living in his home on Camino Torcido Loop in the La Cieneguilla Land Grant for 48 years. It’s where his children grew up and where he returned every day after going out on calls as a police chaplain. It’s also where, for much of that time, he may have been […]
Dairy Queen workers claim a manager forced them to eat ice cream contaminated by cleaning products. The mother of a teen involved in the incident told local news many targeted workers were minors. Kentucky police are investigating the allegations. Police are investigating after employees at a Dairy Queen in Kentucky say they were forced to […]
TASHKENT (Reuters) – A court in Uzbekistan sentenced 23 people to prison terms on Monday over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrups produced by India’s Marion Biotech, following a six-month-long trial. The Central Asian nation had previously reported 65 deaths linked to the medicines, but last month the prosecutors at the […]
Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source, as public officials and the company that operated the site argue over who should pay for the massive clean-up. The 250ft-tall mountain of dirt at the Nordic Waste reprocessing plant south of the […]
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has resigned, saying his party has been “contaminated” and “hijacked” by the government. “I will have nothing to do with sewer politics,” he said in a 13-page statement on Thursday. He won about 44% of the votes in last year’s presidential election which was plagued by allegations of foul play. […]
Jan. 15—A Los Alamos National Laboratory worker’s skin was contaminated by radioactive residue while disassembling old equipment despite wearing full protective gear, a government watchdog reported. It’s the second lab employee in as many weeks to have their skin contaminated in a work area where sealed compartments, known as glove boxes, are being dismantled so […]