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In Three Predominantly Black North Birmingham Neighborhoods, Residents Live Inside an Environmental ‘Nightmare’

By Julia Benbrook, Augusta Saraiva

A person lays on the street near Times Square during a heatwave in New York, on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Credit: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Triple Whammy Has Left Many Inner-City Neighborhoods Highly Vulnerable to Soaring Temperatures

By James Bruggers

A couple and their dog lay in the shade during a heat wave in Portland, Oregon. on Monday, June 28, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming

By Bob Berwyn

General view after a massive fire erupted at a crude oil refinery that triggered several large explosions at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex on June 21, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Two Years After a Huge Refinery Fire in Philadelphia, a New Day Has Come for its Long-Suffering Neighbors

By Daelin Brown

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

Phil Harrison views a uranium loading bin left behind from the mining era, which stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s. Credit: Cheyanne M. Daniels/MNS

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

A Citgo oil refinery stands in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. Credit: Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images

13 Refineries Emit Dangerous Benzene Emissions That Exceed the EPA’s ‘Action Level,’ a Study Finds

By Aman Azhar

The Climate Sentinels team of female scientists ski Kfjellströmdalen, a 25-kilometer-long valley in Nordenskiöldland, Svalbard. The team traversed Svalbard's Spitsbergen Island to sample the snow and study the effects of black carbon on the Arctic island. Credit: Heïdi Sevestre

New Arctic Council Reports Underline the Growing Concerns About the Health and Climate Impacts of Polar Air Pollution

By Bob Berwyn

Cattle eating hay in cattle feedlot in Utah. Credit:Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Air Pollution From Raising Livestock Accounts for Most of the 16,000 US Deaths Each Year Tied to Food Production, Study Finds

By Georgina Gustin

The Los Angeles skyline is seen during twilight on Aug. 21, 2013 in California. Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images

Coal Phase-Down Has Lowered, Not Eliminated Health Risks From Building Energy, Study Says

By Marianne Lavelle

Neighbors Kelly Hagen (left) and Dixie Wilkinson stand in their respective yards on April 22, 2021 in Pensacola, Florida. Their homes are located next to the now closed American Creosote Works, now an EPA Superfund site which is causing environmental problems for the area and health problems for the residents who live near it. Credit: Dan Anderson

The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?

By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue

The sun rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in a haze created by smoke from west coast wildfires in New York City on September 17, 2020.

Smoke From Western Wildfires Darkens the Skies of the East Coast and Europe

By Ilana Cohen

Power Plant. Credit: plus49/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

Cross-State Air Pollution Causes Significant Premature Deaths in the U.S.

By Neela Banerjee

Decades-long studies on the impact of air pollution underpin U.S. regulations. Credit: David L. Ryan/Boston Globe via Getty Images

How Trump’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Put Patients’ Privacy at Risk

By Neela Banerjee

They Built a Life in the Shadow of Industrial Tank Farms. Now, They’re Fighting for Answers.

By Sabrina Shankman

The tiny, troublesome air pollutant PM 2.5 comes primarily from vehicles, power plants and wildfires. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Study Links Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure to Hospitalizations for Growing List of Health Problems

By Neela Banerjee

Mayor Claude Morgan stands near some of South Portland's petroleum tanks. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

With Giant Oil Tanks on Its Waterfront, This City Wants to Know: What Happens When Sea Level Rises?

By Sabrina Shankman

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