Incomplete or delayed permit proposals and IEPA budget cuts are stalling approvals, prolonging Illinois communities’ exposure to hazardous sludge.

The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought ...

The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave ...

Clean Air Council, PennFuture, and the Sierra Club said the state Department of Environmental Protection made several errors by granting the permit.

Westlake Chemical has agreed to a $205,000 penalty to settle alleged decade-old air quality violations involving carcinogens, other unpermitted toxic chemical emissions and procedural breakdowns at ...

Environmental Activists sued South Africa’s environment department over its March decision to allow state-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. to breach emission rules at eight coal-fired plants. The court ...

CHARLESTON — The expert witness for the citizen groups challenging a Tucker County power plant air permit said the project’s air emissions would likely qualify it as a larger air pollution emitter ...

If you were in an ugly, depressing, concrete office, would you want to do something to make it a little bit more cheerful? What if your supervisor told you that you couldn’t? In this story, one ...

TEXAS – This week the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved two do-nothing haze pollution plans from the Texas government, ignoring public pleas for EPA to reduce the ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Georgia Power announced a surprise deal that would allow the utility to carry ...