Air quality, plastic waste, chemical contamination, and the environmental cost of industry.
Louisiana lawmakers rush to support an industry they ‘do not know a lot about’
Louisiana legislators passed a bill supporting the wood-pellet industry without conducting substantive review of the sector's environmental record. Th…
Ocean Cleanup Targets Plastic Trash In Southern California
Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit technology organization, has deployed collection systems across 10 rivers globally to intercept plastic waste before it rea…
Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations
Mexico's government announced enforcement actions and new monitoring infrastructure following Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab investigations that doc…
An Old Well Gushed Waste, Not Oil, in a Small West Texas Town
An abandoned oil well beneath a West Texas church parking lot discharged 1.5 million gallons of toxic wastewater over eight days in April, exposing ga…
US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says
Marcos Orellana, a UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, has documented how the US uses Mexico as a "garbage sink" for industrial waste an…