WHITEWATER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Neighbors in Whitewater Township and surrounding areas were able to get some questions answered on Tuesday night, one week after a styrene leak forced them to evacuate for ...

correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly referred to the location of the chemical leak as being in southeastern Ohio. It is in southwestern Ohio. The article has been corrected.

“Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard/But I think "oh bondage, up yours!” Those are the opening lyrics to the 1977 song “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” by the British punk rock group ...

Residents have repeatedly asked about air quality conditions immediately after styrene vented from a rail car Residents have repeatedly asked about air quality conditions immediately after styrene ...

In 2016, five years after the death of Poly Styrene—the punk legend and trailblazing frontwoman of the short-lived but fiercely beloved band X-Ray Spex—her daughter, Celeste Bell, finally received the ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

Science v. Politics–When a popular chemical is in the regulatory crosshairs, the debate invariably passes through advocacy and industry grinders. Crusaders and apologists go head to head. Hysteria ...

Her punk-rock self-examination bests hippie-style narcissism. Ahem, Neil and Joni. Poly Styrene’s voice — a siren of joy and alarm — reaches into the millennium with a lesson for us all in the ...

Poly Styrene stood out in British punk. Female in a male world, heavy in a skinny world, half-African in a white world, flaunting braces that looked like they could dent a lorry, she's linked in ...