The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed an initial ecological study using activated carbon to reduce contaminants in the Pine River floodplain soils downstream from the St. Louis municipal dam.
Some St. Louis-area environmental watchdogs are criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to declare that Missouri's largest coal-fired power plant has met a key air quality regulation.
New air monitoring data collected by Missouri officials supports a global phenomena: The coronavirus has had a positive effect on air pollution in the St. Louis region.
In 1973, an accident at a chemical plant in the small town of St. Louis in the middle of Michigan's mitten triggered one of the largest mass poisonings in American history.
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing Veolia North America-Trade Waste Incineration, a facility in Sauget, Illinois that runs a hazardous waste incinerator, to relax heavy-metal emissions monitoring, local environmentalists say.
Federal regulators say Missouri's plan to oversee the disposal of toxic waste from coal-fired power plants fails to adequately protect human health and the environment.
A historic ruling against Johnson & Johnson over its talcum powder products rests on uncertain science — but reveals a very real trust problem for such companies.
Jane Worthington moved her grandkids to protect them from oil and gas wells—but it didn't work. In US fracking communities, the industry's pervasiveness causes social strain and mental health problems.
"I was a total cheerleader for this industry at the beginning. Now I just want to make sure no one else makes the same mistake I did. It has ruined my life."
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.
