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Government, Corporate and Philanthropic Interests Coalesce On Curbing Methane Emissions as Calls at COP28 for Binding Global Methane Agreement Intensify

New U.S. and EU regulations on methane emissions strengthen calls for a binding international agreement to curb the climate pollution.

By Phil McKenna

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change

By Lydia Larsen

An aerial view of a natural gas pipeline under construction in Smith Township, Pennsylvania, in October 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.

The Biden Administration Has Begun Regulating 400,000 Miles of Gas ‘Gathering Lines.’ The Industry Isn’t Happy

By Craig R. McCoy

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

An injection well in Western Pennsylvania. Credit: FracTracker.org

Answers About Old Gas Sites Repurposed as Injection Wells for Fracking’s Toxic Wastewater May Never Be Fully Unearthed

By Jake Bolster

EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

By Aman Azhar

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna

$Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith$

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

EPA Overrules Texas Plan to Reduce Haze From Air Pollution at National Parks

By Martha Pskowski

Andrew Wheeler arrives for a House Appropriations Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington in March 2020, when he served as President Donald Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Wheeler currently is head of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's newly created Office of Regulatory Management. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

Trump’s Former Head of the EPA Has Been a Quiet Contributor to Virginia’s Exit From RGGI

By Jake Bolster

Baltimore Won’t Expand a Program to Help Residents Clean up After Sewage Backups

By Aman Azhar

A Reckoning in North Birmingham as EPA Studies the ‘Cumulative Impacts’ of Pollution and Racism

By Vernon Loeb

Female workers sort out plastic bottles for recycling in a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh in October 2016. Plastic not only poses an immense pollution problem—it also exacerbates climate change. If plastic production stays on its current trajectory, by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastics could reach 1.34 billion tons per year, equivalent to the emissions produced by 300 new 500MW coal-fired power plants. Credit: Abir Abdullah / Climate Visuals Countdown

Q&A: The Truth About Those Plastic Recycling Labels

‘Profit Over the Public’s Health’: Study Details Efforts by Makers of Forever Chemicals to Hide Their Harms

By Victoria St. Martin

Children spray each other with water and cool off by playing in a fountain in Domino Park, Brooklyn during a heat wave on July 24, 2022. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Are Legally Acceptable Levels of Pollution Harming Children’s Brain Development?

By Jake Bolster

EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling

By James Bruggers

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