The rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses has been withdrawn.

The Trump administration is rejecting basic medical knowledge and turning back the clock to an era when people were sicker ...

"People need to understand." Study finds side effects of drinking from plastic water bottles grossly underestimated: 'Not something that should be used in daily life' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Heavy soil sealing combined with insufficient retention and infiltration (seepage) potentially increases the risk of ...

Without federal and local standards on how to deal with contaminants like arsenic and the carcinogen benzene, dozens of ...

Water pollution presents a significant challenge for the stability of aquatic ecosystems and the organisms that inhabit them. Aquatic animals are ...

Potentially thousands of tiny plastic pellets have leaked into the Congaree River, littering the waterway south of Columbia ...

We had this state-of-the-art facility, and they canceled the lease,” said Betsy Southerland, who worked at EPA’s Office of ...

Journalist Sue Segar and photographer Thom Pierce recently visited Emalahleni in Mpumalanga to report on how air pollution is impacting the health of people in the area. In part 3 of this Spotlight ...

The impact is already being felt, with one report of a "catastrophic" collapse in mussel numbers. Scientists issue warning ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined a polluting wood treater in northwest Oregon more than $1 million ...

Indoor air can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. I asked two experts about common causes of poor air quality in ...