EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution

The action follows moves by the Trump administration last week to weaken federal rules protecting wetlands and streams and ...

EPA prepares to roll back air pollution standard, as Lee Zeldin remakes agency

The EPA will propose a new, looser health standard for fine particulate matter, which experts say could impair air quality on ...
Mathrubhumi English

Delhi air crisis: Offices to run at 50% capacity, WFH for rest as AQI hits ‘very poor

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing air pollution crisis in Delhi, the city government has mandated that all government and private ...
USA TODAYOpinion

Power company is polluting our water and getting away with it | Opinion

This mixture includes arsenic, lead, mercury, barium, boron, cobalt, manganese – chemicals linked to cancer and heart and ...
The Nation

Trump Promised to Bring Back Coal. This Town Listened.

Through executive orders, Congress, and a loyalist cabinet, the Trump administration has delivered big for enclaves of coal ...

This Bay Area city doesn't want to be part of Newsom's energy plan

Deanna Cole is a Vacaville resident and one of the organizers behind Keep Vacaville Safe, a movement in response to the ...

Newsom wants more battery plants. This agricultural town has had enough.

Mike Wood, also a resident of Vacaville, said that residents of Monterey County had been similarly reassured that safety ...

Nearly 47 million Americans at high risk of potential health hazards from fossil fuel infrastructure, study finds

Fossil fuels release pollutants into the air when extracted and burned, but there's more to their production than massive oil ...
The Verge

Government shutdowns tend to be bad for the air we breathe.

Coal-fired power plants pumped out as much as 20 percent more particle pollution during the last federal government shutdown in 2018 and 2019 as the US Environmental Protection Agency froze ...