This summer at Gas Works Park, a new sound to Lake Union has brought a fresh conversation to a decades-old problem: contamination from the land’s past life as a coal-oil plant.

A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

Eider ducks and bald eagles that nest in and around Harpswell have high levels of PFAS chemicals following an August 2024 spill of firefighting foam on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has had a growing impact on the people and ecosystems of Latin America.

Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights.

Unlike ​hard corals supported by rigid calcium carbonate skeletons, soft corals rely on internal fluid pressure to keep upright.

From rare bacteria to ‘forever chemicals’, a series of cases of violations or alleged pollution has prompted alarm

Tackling air pollution and climate change together could save lives and boost economies, UN reports show.

We need the North Carolina General Assembly to step up and protect their constituents as the EPA rolls out its stated plans to eliminate nationwide drinking water standards for PFAS, a known human health risk.

Companies that manufacture, use, or transport nurdles must report spills and will be required to develop plans to limit them in storm runoff.

As Trump’s agencies shrink, narrow their role, and reduce enforcement, politically connected Energy Transfer is steering a slow cleanup of fuel it spilled into drinking water near the Delaware River.

For Amazon fish, oxygen now comes with microplastics.

One year after negotiations for a global plastics treaty collapsed in Geneva, a new document has been released to revive the process.

Utilities serving thousands of Texans exceed legal limits for radium.

A $2 billion lawsuit for defense base contamination against the U.S. chemical manufacturer is heard in court for the first time.

Republicans on Thursday voted down a proposed amendment to the Farm Bill that would have protected consumer rights to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged harm after the U.S. Supreme Court recently narrowed those rights.

India's Andhra Pradesh state, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has denied allegations that the Google project was fast-tracked without weighing risks.

Two years after environmental regulators first documented 'red mud' waste from the Atalco alumina refinery escaping into public waterways, the state has yet to penalize the company. 

A chemical company has been leaking “black material” into a Durham, North Carolina waterway for years; a new court order hopes to hold them accountable.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chemours announced they’d reached a $450 million settlement last month.