The U.S. Air Force has offered to start work cleaning up groundwater contaminated by "forever chemicals" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base if Tucson, Arizona officials agree to allow Air Force retirees to build a golf course.

The Diamond Alkali Superfund site covers a sprawling swath of North Jersey, including parts of Newark Bay and the lower Passaic River.

Last year, less than 30% of data centers responded to a state-mandated water usage survey conducted by the Texas Water Development Board.

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields.

This week, co-host Jake Bolster and reporters Marianne Lavelle and Liza Gross discuss the polluting power of fossil fuels and how they are harming two communities in very different ways.

Stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, a massive bloom of sargassum seaweed is swamping beaches and killing coastal wildlife. But scientists have discovered the floating algae also shelters a vast array of ocean creatures, and some are now calling for its protection. 

For years, Perdue Agribusiness has been embroiled lawsuits over claims it polluted local groundwater with PFAS, the cancer-causing "forever chemical." So neighbors were skeptical when Perdue asked to increase the treated wastewater it pours in a local stream.

North Carolina has secured $455 million in payments from Chemours, DuPont and Corteva over PFAS pollution, along with a separate $135 million reserve intended to protect future drinking water and cleanup work.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) worked directly with pesticide maker Bayer in approving the controversial herbicide dicamba earlier this year, presenting the company with different options for how to reduce drift and runoff and then aligning on those options in the final decision, according to internal agency records.  

Thousands of water systems nationwide still have not accounted for potentially dangerous lead pipes supplying homes and businesses with drinking water.

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.