Many materials used to construct “green” housing can expose residents to dangerous indoor air pollution, according to a study that examines how toxic chemicals are introduced to seemingly environmentally friendly homes.
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Arkema once operated its peroxide plant near Houston in obscurity, but an explosive chemical release caused by Hurricane Harvey shined an unflattering light that intensified Thursday when seven first responders sued the company for exposing them to hazardous fumes.
Read moreA Dutch judge on Thursday ordered the government to do more to rein in air pollution, a victory for activists who filed a civil case seeking measures to ensure cleaner air.
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The Trump administration cannot put off a plan to curb air pollution from Texas power plants until 2019, a federal judge ruled, refusing to further delay a process that’s dragged on for nearly a decade.
Read moreThe University of Rhode Island is using an $8 million grant to lead the charge in understanding how fluorinated pollutants found in products like nonstick cookware and firefighting foam contaminate drinking water and affect people.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday rejected an environmental watchdog’s challenge to a liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast, finding that the Energy Department conducted the required environmental reviews before approving the project.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit has ordered a new trial against a Chilean industrial chemical company that the Southern California city of Pomona says contaminated the its water system with fertilizer chemicals.
Read moreAn environmental group claims in a federal lawsuit that Formosa Plastics refuses to stop illegally discharging small plastic pellets from its 2,500-acre plant into waters along the Texas Gulf Coast, threatening local wetlands, beaches and wildlife.
Read moreAttorneys general from 15 states filed a legal challenge on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s delay of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants.
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Two conservation groups claim in a federal lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency ignored their petition to block an operating permit for a Pennsylvania coal plant they say hurts people and the ecosystem.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved new criteria for levels of mercury in California fish.
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Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first traditional automaker to forgo the combustion engine altogether.
Read moreNine conservation groups brought a federal complaint Thursday over the flood of raw sewage befouling borough shorelines thanks to New York City’s outdated sewer systems.
Read moreMinnesota, Wisconsin and the federal government reached a deal Thursday for three companies to pay more than $8 million for natural resource damages at a Superfund site in Minnesota.
Read moreAmidst doubts over the legality of an attempt by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to ram through last-minute changes to a proposal for the nation’s first-ever caps on greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, the Air District’s board of directors postponed voting on the proposal.
Read moreEyeing a push in the D.C. Circuit to restore federal limits on industrial air pollution, a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the city of Chicago filed a motion to intervene Tuesday.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a New York ruling that found native Ecuadoreans corruptly obtained a $9.5 billion environmental verdict against Chevron.
Read moreA community group representing residents in an impoverished area of Los Angeles County overshadowed by oil refineries has sued the South Coast Air Quality Management District for what it says was an illegal approval of a Tesoro expansion.
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Rekindling claims over contaminated California groundwater, the Second Circuit revived one of more than a hundred cases against BP and Shell about toxic additives in gasoline.
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