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Plumes of smoke fill the sky as a brush fire burns on Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

How Should You Clean Your House After It’s Engulfed in Wildfire Smoke?

By Anna Gibbs

A warning sign is posted at the edge of a celery farm to indicate the field is unsafe to enter shortly after an application of pesticide in Salinas Valley, Calif. Credit: Jack Clark/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Farmworker Communities Win the Right to Be Notified of Pesticide Applications in Advance

By Liza Gross

What 30 Years of Fighting for Environmental Justice Looks Like in One Community

By Bhabna Banerjee

Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes Avenue, where he lives. Credit: Audrey Mei Yi Brown/San Francisco Public Press

Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized San Francisco Communities

By Audrey Mei Yi Brown, San Francisco Public Press

Electronic waste is seen in a recycling facility in the Guangdong Province of South China. Polymeric brominated flame retardants are widely used in electronics to reduce fire risk. Credit: Guillaume Payen/LightRocket via Getty Images

A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Toxic Chemicals

By Liza Gross

Normally phosphogypsum is disposed of in stacks such as this one in Riverview, Fla. Credit: Sarah Gledhill/Center for Biological Diversity

Plan to Build a Road With Radioactive Waste in Florida Prompts Legal Challenge Against the EPA

By Amy Green

Protesters hold signs in opposition of the cancer-causing 1,3-D at a hearing covering proposed regulation of the fumigant on Jan. 16 in Salinas, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing

By Liza Gross

Migrant workers pick strawberries during harvest on a farm south of San Francisco. Credit: Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

For years, the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been releasing large quantities of a carcinogen with the state's knowledge. Regulators say they're working on a solution, but some wonder why it's taking so long. Credit: Emyle Watkins/WBFO

A Dangerous Chemical Is Fouling Niagara Falls’ Air. New York State Hasn’t Put a Stop to It

By Jim Morris and Emyle Watkins

Cattle graze in an area near recent deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil on July 14, 2022. Credit: Rafael Vilela/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

An aerial view of the Fifth Ward Elementary School in Reserve, Louisiana, with the nation’s only chloroprene plant in the background. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana, Environmental Justice Advocates Ponder Next Steps After a Federal Judge Effectively Bars EPA Civil Rights Probes

By Victoria St. Martin

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Wright Waste Management in July. Credit: CBS News

Houston’s Plastic Waste, Waiting More Than a Year for ‘Advanced’ Recycling, Piles up at a Business Failed Three Times by Fire Marshal

By James Bruggers

A new study found toxic metals like lead and arsenic in tampons. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images

After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

By Victoria St. Martin

Robert Taylor stands outside his home, which is about a mile from the nation’s only chloroprene rubber plant, in Reserve, La. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin

An In-N-Out Burger is closed and tented for termite fumigation on March 13 in Hollywood, Calif. Credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images

California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross

A worker sprays weed killer around the edges of a vineyard near Healdsburg, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

Smoke rises from the derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4, 2023. Credit: Dustin Franz/AFP via Getty Images

Accidents Involving Toxic Vinyl Chloride Are Commonplace, a New Report Finds

By Kiley Bense

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