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A view of the Shenango coke plant in Pittsburgh in December 2012. Credit: Allegheny County Clean Air Now

Kids in Pennsylvania Are Breathing (Much) Easier After a Coal Plant Shuttered

By Kiley Bense

People travel through dense smog due to air pollution in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 17, 2024. Credit: Salman Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Air Pollution Can Speed Aging, New Study Finds, but Measuring Other Factors Is Challenging

By Chad Small

Trent Williams and his grandson, Nathan, look across the Ohio River at the Hugh L. Spurlock Generating Station on June 12 in Maysville, Ky. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers

By Keerti Gopal

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is seen in the background of a neighborhood in Clairton, Pa. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Air Pollution Is ‘Keeping Kids Out of School’ in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, Study Shows

By Kiley Bense

Neuroscience professor Gina Turrigiano talks with researchers at her Brandeis University lab, where researchers are studying the origins of autism and other neurological disorders, on Feb. 12 in Waltham, Mass. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Unraveling the Link Between Plastics and Autism

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

People walk through New York City’s Central Park as smoke from wildfires in Canada cause unhealthy air quality on June 7, 2023. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High

By Keerti Gopal

Mosquitoes fly over the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

The image shows an industrial-looking pad surrounded by greenery, near homes

Pennsylvania Health Advocates Say Gov. Shapiro Has Let Residents Down on Fracking Protections

By Jon Hurdle

An oil refinery operates next to a neighborhood of homes in Wilmington, Calif. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

EPA Deregulation Would Be a ‘Tragedy’ for Health, Experts Say

By Keerti Gopal

Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest mass firings by the Trump administration outside the NOAA headquarters on March 3 in Silver Spring, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Scientists Are Rising Up to Resist Trump Policies

By Bob Berwyn

Paramedics treat a person who fainted in front of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024, as temperatures reached more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health

By Keerti Gopal

Residents evacuate their home as a brush fire burns on Jan. 7 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Credit: Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images

Doctors and Medical Schools Are Changing Treatments and Training to Respond to the Warming Climate

By Nicole Williams

Youth soccer teams practice at Wilmington Waterfront Park in the shadow of a refinery in Los Angeles. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Lethal Greed: How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick

By Liza Gross

Homes sit in the shadows of the Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles on Sept. 25, 2024. Credit: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Living Near Active Oil and Gas Wells May Have Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19

By Liza Gross

Lancaster County residents Suzy Hamme and Stephen Haldeman bought their own air quality sensor, as government pollution monitoring is inadequate in the region. Credit: Rambo Talabong/Inside Climate News

Millions Left in Air Pollution ‘Blind Spots’ Despite Stricter EPA Standards

By Rambo Talabong

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has recorded high benzene emissions for nearly 20 years outside K-Solv, a barge-cleaning and chemical distribution facility in the southeastern corner of Channelview, Texas. Credit: Jeffersonn Castellanos/Univision45

Levels of Cancer-Causing Benzene Reached New Heights in Beleaguered Channelview. Regulators Never Told Residents

By Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch

Workers perform milking operations at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. Credit: Ed Young/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

By Georgina Gustin

Hospital staff pour water on a patient who is suffering from heatstroke on May 30 in Varanasi, India. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Health Risks Due to Climate Change Are Rising Dangerously, Lancet Report Concludes

By Marianne Lavelle

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