For all the natural beauty surrounding the majority minority town of Brunswick and the wealthier white Golden Isles across the causeway, few locals are aware of the myriad environmental dangers surrounding them.
A TikToker from Yellowknives Dene First Nation who's using her platform to call out the toxic contamination from the now-abandoned Giant Mine in Yellowknife, has helped push the issue to the attention of federal government.
Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change.
Federal EPA to hold April 12 hearinjg on proposal for more plans for Sherwin-Williams Superfund site cleanup of waterways in three Camden County, N.J. towns.
The Detroit Land Bank Authority and the city's Demolition Department wasted time, resources and taxpayer dollars to determine if topsoil used by a now-banned demolition contractor was safe, an investigation found.
A mine tailings dam planned for a seismically unstable area of Sumatra's rainforest would be at high risk of failure, experts warn. The dam's collapse would be a disaster, releasing a wall of slurry that would engulf and bury Indigenous villages.
The Indonesian government has declared coal ash is no longer a hazardous waste product, despite containing heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic, in a nod to industry efforts for greater deregulation.
Joe Biden is looking to reopen the children’s detention center in Homestead, Florida, which is situated in an area so polluted it’s been designated unfit for residents.
The company scraps planned Pennsylvania investments and will instead shut down three polluting batteries in 2023. The announcement comes a week after a study shows lower lung function in people living near its Pittsburgh-region facility.
EHN.org scientific investigation finds western Pennsylvania families near fracking are exposed to harmful chemicals, and regulations fail to protect communities' mental, physical, and social health.
