Coal Plant Ranked as Nation’s Dirtiest Asks for Pollution Exemption
The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.
Trump Said Auto Emissions Don’t Affect the Environment. That’s Not True.
The president wants to weaken limits on tailpipe pollution. Scientists say it’s driving climate change and taking human lives ...
Environmental group sues Brunner Island power plant owner over ‘toxic waste’ pollution
The Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit in federal court in Harrisburg against Talen Energy Corp. and Brunner ...
Dead hedgehogs reveal PCB pollution still haunts the environment decades after ban
Researchers have found hedgehog bodies are full of environmental pollutants, including some of the most hazardous to human ...
Surprising number of environmental pollutants found in hedgehogs
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is ...
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Steel pollution rule would have better protected NW Indiana residents. Now it's been put on hold
The new standards were supposed to reduce a kind of pollution at steel mills that isn’t being controlled right now — leaks of ...
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Dramatic cuts in China’s air pollution drove surge in global warming
The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...
Six of the ten U.S. cities with the worst air pollution are in Southern California, report says
A new report shows that some of the nation's most polluted cities are in Southern California, four of which call the Inland ...
Exposure to air pollution in childhood associated with reduced brain connectivity
A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has found that children exposed to higher levels of ...
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Legislation takes aim at indoor, outdoor air pollution
Of the two bills, one targets outdoor air quality, the other looks to tackle indoor air pollution.
Microplastics pollution from glitter can disrupt marine biomineralisation
New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralisation processes in marine ...
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Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health
Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this gas can wreak havoc on ...