Sam Roe

The auto industry says it is serious about fuel efficiency, but you wouldn't know it strolling around the Chicago Auto Show. A shiny new Ford F-150 on display gets 14...

Chicago grocery stores would have to put warning labels for mercury on cans of tuna and other seafood under a proposal made Wednesday by three aldermen. Citing a recent Tribune...

The Canadian fishing industry for the first time will conduct widespread testing for mercury in a variety of fish caught in the Great Lakes and sold in U.S. supermarkets. Prompted...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is calling on America's tuna industry to take steps to protect consumers from high mercury levels in some cans of tuna. "The industry has to...

Newly released government data provide the best evidence to date that some cans of light tuna--one of America's favorite seafoods--contain high levels of mercury. Testing by the Food and Drug...

Swordfish is among the protein sources recommended in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new food pyramid, even though two other federal agencies say the seafood is so contaminated with mercury...

The Food and Drug Administration will investigate whether tens of millions of cans of tuna sold each year contain potentially hazardous levels of mercury. Responding to a Tribune series this...

In the fall of 1970, a chemistry professor in upstate New York reached into his pantry, grabbed a can of tuna and, on a hunch, tested it for mercury. What...

In the fall of 1970, a chemistry professor in upstate New York reached into his pantry, grabbed a can of tuna and, on a hunch, tested it for mercury. What...

Thanks to shoddy policing by the U.S. government and the influence of the fishing industry, mercury contamination in seafood is so bad that even tuna-fish sandwiches can be risky to...