WASHINGTON — D.C.'s Attorney General filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Thursday against an Illinois chemical manufacturer accused of poisoning homes and waterways across the city with a pesticide it ...

If your carpenter tells you the wooden structures in your home are being protected using Chlordane, an expensive anti-termite chemical, you have good cause for alarm. Chlordane has long been banned in ...

A major chemical manufacturer polluted D.C. homes, yards and waterways with a toxic pesticide for decades, even after learning it could cause cancer, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine alleges in a new ...

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D) on Thursday announced a lawsuit against chemical manufacturer Velsicol, alleging the company contaminated waterways in the city and harmed the health ...

In Washington DC, the year before chlordane was banned, it was found in Potomac and Anacostia River fish at levels three times above what the US Food and Drug Administration considered safe for human ...