The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient ...

On the morning of Jan. 10, when the federal government said it would stop prioritizing how many lives are saved by cutting ...

The EPA will no longer apply a dollar amount to health benefits from clean air.

Kiran Karnik writes that air pollution persists because responsibility is shifted and root causes remain unaddressed ...

Emissions of NOx form smog and soot, which is harmful to human health and linked to serious heart and lung diseases.

When indoor air pollution makes the news in western countries, it often feels like a local issue. One week it focuses on wood ...

Colleen O’Neil, of the Mountain Watershed Association, fixes a crooked sign posted near a landfill's discharge pipe that flows into Sewickley Creek in Yukon, Pa. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate ...

At a Catholic health conference April 4-5 in Vacherie, La., Kimberly Terrell, a research scientist and director of community engagement at the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic in New Orleans, said her ...

Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their ...

When they arrived in Longboat Key this February, Carol Leone and her family were excited for two weeks of relaxation in the salty breeze. Within days, they started to cough. Soon, Leone’s voice ...

Explore the severe pollution crisis in Bangladesh, with a focus on Dhaka's mounting waste problem and the environmental ...

Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.