Tagged Stories: "chemical contaminants"

"Intersex" fish - male fish with female traits - are showing up in more Chesapeake Bay region waterways.

A U.S.G.S. report points to contaminated riverbank and floodplain soils as the main source of mercury found in fish.

Washington, D.C., has banned the use and sale of coal-tar pavement products to curb the flow of a toxic chemical contaminant.

The Bay Program Toxics Subcommittee has updated its list of Toxics of Concern, ranking the toxic organic chemicals in the Chesapeake Bay.

PAH concentrations shown to cause liver tumors in fish in some Bay tributaries

In recent years, people have become increasingly concerned about the issue of toxic materials, like Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), contam