Pollution & Toxins

The health risks from tiny airborne particulate matter may soon face stricter federal regulation. But improving air quality remains a complex challenge.

A massive new plastics plant will soon start operating in Pennsylvania, even as support grows for international limits on plastic production.

One man’s mission to remove trash from the polluted river in Baghdad has inspired a nationwide movement that shows how environmental efforts inspire peace.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered fears of another nuclear power disaster in the region, 36 years after the world’s largest nuclear accident. 

Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.

Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution.

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

Researchers continue to find new information about how widespread plastic pollution has become, but also how we can help stem the tide.

Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.

“Routine flaring” from oil wells produces emissions that harm the climate and human health. Two states have proposed new rules to reduce it, just as the true scope of the problem emerges.