Houston city officials and university researchers develop technologies to more accurately inform the community when the air quality might be particularly concerning for the most vulnerable.
The Central Valley has some of the most polluted air in the country. And the White House's recent assault on the state's environmental regulations could make it worse.
Ozone, a gas and harmful air pollutant is created by volatile organic compounds when pollutants are emitted by cars, power plants and other industrial facilities.
Ozone, which is formed when sunlight reacts with chemicals emitted from cars, is getting worse as we drive more and it gets hotter. And it’s having a disastrous effect on people’s health.
When the environmental movement came of age in the late 1960's, the issues and conflicts were clear: Solving endangered species meant protecting the adorably large and/or cuddly things – pandas, blue whales, or tigers. Stopping pollution meant shutting down the pipe or smokestack directly dumping into our air or water.
Despite regulatory progress in recent decades, pollution from gasoline and diesel-powered combustion engines is still doing enormous damage to human health.
From 2011 to this year, the Maine DEP sided with oil companies and ignored Environmental Protection Agency attempts to rein in hazardous emissions from tanks in South Portland and Searsport.
Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies
The Ohio River Valley, like the rest of the U.S., stands at a crossroads of energy and industry, facing decisions about whether to turn toward a future of renewable energy and a green jobs revolution or one of shale gas and plastics.
American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.
