Mailboxes across the Coachella Valley are filling with an unsettling notice this week: a formal warning from the Coachella ...

Maximum contaminant level of 10 parts per billion of chromium 6 in drinking water is set under new rule to take effect Oct. 1. California’s Water Resources Control Board has voted to adopt a new ...

(WXYZ) — After a chemical spill was reported in the Huron River this week, many are wondering what hexavalent chromium is and how it could affect their health. Here ...

EPA issues new guidelines for monitoring chromium-6 in drinking water. Jan. 12, 2011 -- Several weeks after promising to address the issue of chromium-6 levels in drinking water, the U.S.

The Colorado River replenishes groundwater at the end of the Coachella Canal, pictured here in 2022. The water district that serves the Coachella Valley estimates that reducing chromium-6 to the new ...

Hexavalent chromium nanoparticles were found in air samples gathered by researchers over the course of several days in the spring as they drove through and around the Eaton and Palisades fire burn ...

The state Air Resources Board voted today to ban the substance known as chromium 6, giving platers several years to switch to an alternative the platers say won’t produce the same chrome shine. Stay ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators voted Wednesday to establish a drinking water limit on hexavalent chromium, a toxic chemical compound made infamous by the movie “Erin Brockovich.” The rule is ...

It's widely known that wildfire smoke is bad for your health, but a group of researchers recently found a known carcinogen in California wildfire ash, raising concerns about just how harmful it could ...

There’s a toxic history to the shiny decorative finishes so ubiquitous on the wheels and bumpers of classic cars. Chrome plating is important to a variety of consumer products from vintage automobiles ...