In 2016, City Hall began testing for lead in drinking water in homes with water meters. In June, city officials began getting results. When did City Hall give Chicagoans a heads-up? Last week.
The Republican-controlled legislature twiddles its thumbs when not actively blocking reasonable measures to cut the emissions that contribute to warming. So Gov. Roy Cooper has stepped up.
To raise the region’s voice on sea-level rise, local governments must give business leaders the kind of detail they need to sway political leaders to pay attention and create a plan for what’s headed our way.
There are some hopeful signs that Congress may finally get around to enacting a carbon tax sometime in the next two years. Sooner would be better than later.
Utahns aren't strangers to the thick, smoggy blanket known as the winter inversion. As it turns out, neither are dozens of other places around the globe
The federal Liberal government is firmly on the right side of what is shaping up to be one of the main issues in next fall’s election, putting a national price on carbon.
Bald eagles' success shows that the Endangered Species Act remains necessary and should not be substantially weakened, as the Trump administration proposes.
In addition to undermining the fight against climate change, the president's efforts to prop up the dirtiest of all fuels will also exact a significant toll on public health, on the hearts and lungs of ordinary Americans.
Pediatrician and founding director of Boston College's Global Public Health Initiative Philip Landrigan, MD helped put the EPA office of Children's Health together decades ago and he joins Host Steve Curwood to talk about what these decisions could mean for the health of children.
We are careening and gasping toward disaster, as the official U.S. policy is to leave a charred hellscape, crafted by an emperor without clothes who will jeopardize life itself for the political present. At least now he admits it.
The nation's attention has moved on from Hurricane Florence, but the storm has left a toxic legacy in the Carolinas, where lax environmental laws and a warming planet are proving to be a bad combination.
Though mercury can be found naturally in some soils, the real culprit is mercury pollution caused by the burning of coal, particularly for the generation of electricity.
