Bike lanes and transit are important, yes. But keeping car trips short is also a major factor in Streetlight Data’s U.S. Transportation Climate Impact Index.
BP, the state's largest refiner, two years ago poured nearly $13 million into defeating carbon pricing ballot measure. Now, a print, radio and social media campaign will promote a Senate bill that the company likes better.
The air pollution that people in Colorado inhale each day comes from myriad sources: factories, cars, buildings and homes, fossil fuel facilities, cattle feedlots.
Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer.
Last June's catastrophic explosion at the East Coast's biggest oil refinery provided a stark illustration of the hazards to nearby Philadelphia neighborhoods. But even in its wake, officials gave no notice to residents that the now-bankrupt refinery had registered some of the highest levels of cancer-causing benzene emissions in the country.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality data shows 12.8 million pounds of particulate pollution matter are released into Oregon's air by woodstoves and chimneys each year.
Federal appeals court judges grappled Thursday with the EPA’s insistence that a recent ruling doesn’t apply to the agency’s refusal to tackle upwind sources of ozone-forming pollution drifting into downwind states.
New York and Connecticut sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging it has failed to enforce the U.S. Clean Air Act and allowed five neighboring states to pump unhealthy levels of pollution into their states.
Battling 'putrid' outbreaks on the Adirondack park's eastern flank, New York and Vermont advocates struggle to reduce phosphorus pollution in Lake Champlain.
Presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging to slash carbon pollution by 50 percent in the U.S. economy by 2030, according to a climate plan unveiled Wednesday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Utah regulators have sufficiently crafted a plan to control regional haze by requiring pollution control technologies that will reduce fine particulate pollution from a pair of coal-fired power plants.
The brain-harming metal is discharged directly into the river and carried to it on air currents. Some argue authorities are doing too little to stop both routes of pollution.
