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In a Years-Long Fight, the Illinois Environmental Justice Movement Gets a Win

A bill, newly passed by legislators, will expand the state’s capacity to enforce limits on health-harming emissions in overburdened communities.

By Keerti Gopal

A view of factories, sorting facilities and recycling plants along the Calumet River in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images
An aerial view of Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Alon Skuy/Getty Images

Alligator Alcatraz Emissions Threaten Human Health, Violate Clean Air Act, Lawsuit Claims

By Amy Green

Used EVs sit on a sales lot on March 30 in West Covina, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Claims ‘Overwhelming Rejection’ of EVs as It Moves to Loosen Air Pollution Rules

By Anika Jane Beamer

People walk around downtown Los Angeles as smog fills the sky in 1958. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do

By Steven Rodas

Children play in a park as the skyline of New York City is shrouded by a hazy sky on July 18, 2023. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air

By Keerti Gopal

The Freepoint Eco-Systems chemical recycling plant near Hebron, Ohio, emits black smoke in July 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Shawn Jones

As a Plastic Waste Plant Violates Pollution Rules, Its Owner Makes the Case for a Second Location

By James Bruggers

“Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality in the region on Aug. 5, 2025. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

By Kiley Bense, Keerti Gopal

The Mi Vida gas plant is seen on March 18 in the Permian Basin of West Texas near Pecos. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Senator Launches Investigation Into Methane Pollution in the Permian Basin

By Phil McKenna

Petroleum storage tanks reside next to the Ferry Village neighborhood near the South Portland waterfront. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

There’s Something in the Air in South Portland, Maine

By Ryan Krugman, Inside Climate News, and Sabrina Shankman, Boston Globe

An aerial view of the migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Fla. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Documents Raise New Concerns Over Alligator Alcatraz’s Air and Climate Pollution

By Amy Green

A view of the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station on Feb. 14 from the Valley Village neighborhood in Louisville, Ky. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Without Weighing Costs to Public Health, EPA Rolls Back Air Pollution Standards for Coal Plants

By Kiley Bense

Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

By Liza Gross

A view of the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 14. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Health and Climate Consequences of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal ‘Cannot Be Overstated’

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, speaks at the Health Action Conference on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association is among several health organizations involved in the suit. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Community Catalyst

Healthcare Professionals, Scientists and Children Sue the EPA for Backtracking on Greenhouse Gas Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Senate Democrats Say Trump’s EPA Curries Corporate Favor By Weakening Air Pollution Standards

By Lisa Sorg

Georgia Power is planning to add four combined-cycle gas turbines at its coal-fired Bowen power plant in Bartow County, Georgia. Credit: Alan Cressler/USGS

Georgia Power Gas Expansion Would Drive Significant Climate-Damaging Pollution

By Ryan Krugman

Steam rises from one of the plants near the Houston Ship Channel on Jan. 26 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds

By Kiley Price, Marianne Lavelle

A view of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mapping Unequal Climate Risks in a Northern California County

By Liza Gross

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