Cancer-causing benzene has been found in amounts in excess of an international standard in a soft drink sold by cosmetics retailer DHC Corp., the health ministry said Friday.

EPA has fallen short of regulating hazardous air pollutants as required by the Clean Air Act, the Government Accountability Office says in a report released on July 26.

The list of Athens-area sites hasn’t changed on the state’s annual “hazardous site inventory” of places with heavy chemical contamination - none of the 20 sites have been cleaned up enough in the past year to drop from the list.

Exposure to military jet fuel five decades ago likely set in motion the slowly developing disease that killed a Pueblo West, Colorado man this spring.

Certain deodorising products, including air fresheners and toilet bowl cleaners, contain a chemical compound which scientists say may be harmful to the lungs.