The Environmental Protection Agency claims a Dow Silicones Corporation plant in central Michigan violated the Clean Air Act by not controlling emissions, underreporting the amount of benzene in wastewater and lagging in the repair of equipment that leaked pollutants.
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Severe air pollution caused by motorized traffic can drastically reduce the potential health benefits of living in a walkable community, researchers reported in a scientific study Tuesday.
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Extending the life of coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration pulled the plug Wednesday on a landmark effort from the Obama era to move away from climate-damaging pollution.
Read moreDiving into a decades-long stalemate, federal lawmakers considered three bills Thursday that take different approaches to the storage and disposal of America’s nuclear waste.
Read moreThe high school was closed, the land sold to a Chinese industrial company that sold it for $100 to the Koch Brothers, then the post office was closed. Welcome to Cancer Alley.
Read moreRepublican and Democrat alike, four former EPA administrators testified Tuesday before Congress that they are fearful for the public health as the Trump administration deregulates longstanding environmental policies and pares back the agency’s research on climate change.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a case that would deem the owner of a Superfund site a responsible party for pollution damages and require it to fork out funding for toxic cleanups beyond what is mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreRocky Mountain Wild brought a federal complaint over the government’s approval of 59 oil and gas leases covering 61,910 acres in northeast Utah without considering how the air pollution would affect Dinosaur National Monument and nearby areas.
Read moreThe average American consumes more than 70,000 pieces of microplastics per year, though the health effects of that consumption are unclear.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is pitching a $5 trillion climate proposal that he says would lead the United States to net zero emission of carbon pollution by 2050.
Read moreClaiming that they and and the environment were exposed to dangerous toxins, 15 named plaintiffs brought a federal class action against The 3M Co., DuPont and others that manufactured and sold Aqueous Film Forming Foam and related materials in and around Oscoda, Michigan.
Read moreMore residents died from air pollution in Los Angeles County in 2017 than in any other U.S. county, according to a new study released Wednesday, but nationally, the number of deaths and illnesses caused by smog has fallen dramatically in the last decade.
Read moreLong-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say.
Read moreTurning the screws on marine pollution and environmental health hazards, the Council of the European Union signed off on a plan to ban many single-use plastic items and set limits on potentially harmful contaminants in fertilizer products.
Read moreMerging capitalism with conservation, a study released Monday proposes a football field-sized array of crystal arrays that can pull methane out of the Earth’s atmosphere could become a lucrative industry in the future.
Read moreThe 500 residents of Bokoshe, Oklahoma have bitter warnings for similarly situated communities now that President Trump’s EPA has approved Oklahoma to be the first state to take over permitting and enforcement of toxic coal-ash sites.
Read moreNew Mexico’s top prosecutor is demanding that the U.S. Air Force close a publicly accessible lake at Holloman Air Force Base, saying the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to public health and the environment.
Read moreA huge, seemingly unquenchable oil play in West Texas, the Permian Basin is producing 4 million barrels a day and reviving the cities of Odessa and Midland. But there’s a dark side to the drilling: Air pollutants are proliferating and endangering residents’ health, an environmental group said Thursday.
Read moreThe Trump administration can no longer delay enforcement of Obama-era rules aimed at curbing hazardous air pollution from landfills in California and across the nation, a federal judge has ruled – and took the rare step of demanding status reports every 90 days until the rules are in place.
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