While wind and solar power and electric vehicles tend to dominate the conversation around preventing catastrophic climate change, electricity and transportation aren't the whole picture.
Joe Biden released a plan Tuesday aimed at combating climate change and spurring economic growth in part by overhauling America's energy industry, with a proposal to achieve entirely carbon pollution-free power by 2035.
A Colorado company agreed to a $7 million cleanup plan for Alaska's only uranium mine, which has left radioactive waste in the Tongass National Forest.
In 2019, an organization that tracks ambient noise levels in Paris found that an average resident in the noisiest regions lost more than three "healthy life-years" because of conditions caused or worsened by noise pollution.
More than 50 city declarations put racism’s health impacts on par with disease and addiction. Health organizations and school districts are adopting them too.
The EPA says it will retain current air quality standards for ozone despite calls by environmental groups to strengthen them, winning support from the oil industry and Chamber of Commerce.
Dupont will pay $3.195 million to settle alleged violations of federal pollution control laws at a Texas plant that's been closed since an accident killed 4 workers there in 2014.
The Dolgans, Nenets, Nganasans, Evenki and Enets all hunt, fish, and herd reindeer among the lakes and rivers north of Norilsk. But the land has long been poisoned by industrial waste.
Air pollution has caused an estimated 49,000 deaths and $23 billion in economic losses in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai alone since Jan. 1, 2020, according to a "clean air counter" launched by environmental groups.
Defeats at three projects reflect increasingly sophisticated legal challenges, shifting economics and growing demands by states to fight climate change.
While PPE is absolutely critical to tackling the pandemic, we must address the increased strain that they place on our already overburdened waste management systems if we want to avoid aggravating another crisis: ocean plastic pollution.
Four of the fellows who participated in the program this year will discuss their ongoing research, activism, and experiences with publishing their ideas in the public sphere.
With job loss and stifled development in the renewable energy sector, economists, politicians, and advocates say policy action is necessary to stay on track.
