A federal lawsuit blaming Orlando's electric utility and home builders for coal-related contamination of east Orange County neighborhoods is a major step closer to trial with a judge's order.
These are difficult times. Most of us are sacrificing to protect ourselves, our families and our communities from COVID-19. Unfortunately, there are others who are using this crisis as cover to further their own exploitative agendas.
At a time when the Trump administration is rolling back U.S. clean water regulations, New Jersey has stepped up protections on 600 miles of rivers and streams throughout the state.
One unintended upside to this crisis has been improved air quality, particularly in the hardest-hit areas where the most draconian measures have gone into force.
Additional funds provided by Congress for Great Lakes environmental improvements will be used to hasten cleanups of highly toxic sites and step up work on other longstanding forms of pollution, federal officials said Thursday.
Despite temporary short-term benefits from the air pollution drop in the U.S. and across the world, scientists warn that pollution levels will rebound once coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
Steve Hankey is an assistant professor in Virginia Tech's School of Public and International Affairs who recently received a $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation to measure pollution around cities using bicycle-mounted sensors.
Illegal gold mining led to deforestation of thousands of hectares of forests inside indigenous reserves in the Brazilian Amazon, according to new satellite image analysis by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project.
A new study published in the journal PeerJ by researchers at the University of Hawaii found that human-induced environmental stressors have a large effect on the genetic composition of coral reef populations in Hawaii.
While the consequences of government inaction play out for the coronavirus pandemic, they play out more quietly, but just as dangerously, in the context of chemical regulation.
Two communities — one in Canada, one in the U.S. — share both a border along the St. Marys River and a toxic legacy that has contributed to high rates of cancer. Now the towns are banding together to fight a ferrochrome plant.
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