Environment & Health
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
Baltimore Continues Incinerating Trash, Despite Opposition from its New Mayor and City Council
By Agya K. Aning
Covid-19 Cut Gases That Warm the Globe But a Drop in Other Pollution Boosted Regional Temperatures
By Bob Berwyn
Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing ‘Energy Burdens’
By Agya K. Aning
For a City Staring Down the Barrel of a Climate-Driven Flood, A New Study Could be the Smoking Gun
By Bob Berwyn
Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse
By Judy Fahys
Animals Can Get Covid-19, Too. Without Government Action, That Could Make the Coronavirus Harder to Control
By Liza Gross
Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept
By Kristoffer Tigue, Agya K. Aning, Judy Fahys, Katie Surma