Environment & Health
New York City Has Ambitious Climate Goals. The Next Mayor Will Determine Whether the City Follows Through
By Delger Erdenesanaa
13 Refineries Emit Dangerous Benzene Emissions That Exceed the EPA’s ‘Action Level,’ a Study Finds
By Aman Azhar
Q&A: With Climate Change-Fueled Hurricanes and Wildfire on the Horizon, a Trauma Expert Offers Ways to Protect Your Mental Health
By James Bruggers
An Explosion in Texas Shows the Hidden Dangers of Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels
By Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane
With the World Focused on Reducing Methane Emissions, Even Texas Signals a Crackdown on ‘Flaring’
By Jonathan Moens
Warming Trends: Heating Up the Summer Olympics, Seeing Earth in 3-D and Methane Emissions From ‘Tree Farts’
By Katelyn Weisbrod
For the Second Time in Four Years, the Ninth Circuit Has Ordered the EPA to Set New Lead Paint and Dust Standards
By Agya K. Aning
Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists
By Liza Gross
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
Coal Phase-Down Has Lowered, Not Eliminated Health Risks From Building Energy, Study Says
By Marianne Lavelle
Expansion of I-45 in Downtown Houston Is on Hold, for Now, in a Traffic-Choked, Divided Region
By Aman Azhar
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
Noxious Neighbors: The EPA Knows Tanks Holding Heavy Fuels Emit Harmful Chemicals. Why Are Americans Still at Risk?
By Sabrina Shankman, Julia Kane
The EPA Is Asking a Virgin Islands Refinery for Information on its Spattering of Neighbors With Oil
By Kristoffer Tigue
During February’s Freeze in Texas, Refineries and Petrochemical Plants Released Almost 4 Million Pounds of Extra Pollutants
By Aman Azhar
What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland
By Judy Fahys
