Air quality, plastic waste, chemical contamination, and the environmental cost of industry.
Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals
Residents of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway have been told not to drink tap water due to heavy metal contamination linked to permafrost thaw. The vi…
PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated, New Study Suggests
# PFAS in Drinking Water Likely Underestimated by Half, New Analysis Reveals A new study in *Cell Reports Sustainability* found that PFAS contaminati…
Boeing’s Demolition of a California Nuclear Testing Facility Has Nearby Families Worried About Cancer
Boeing's demolition of buildings at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, California raises fresh health alarms for families living dow…
Amid Iowa’s Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting
Iowa's largest concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) operate under minimal environmental oversight, even as the state grapples with persisten…
The Locations of North Carolina’s Industrial Poultry Farms Have Been a Secret—Until Now
# Secrecy Around North Carolina's Industrial Poultry Operations Ends With EPA Complaint Maps North Carolina's industrial poultry industry has operate…
EPA quietly backtracks on claims US has phased out toxic Pfas compounds
The Environmental Protection Agency backtracked on claims that the United States has phased out two dangerous PFAS compounds: PFOA and PFOS. The agenc…
A Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘No One Needs’ Is Found in Dangerous Quantities in a Quarter of US Rivers
Atrazine, the second-most widely used weedkiller in the United States after glyphosate, has been detected in dangerous quantities in a quarter of Amer…
Still Smoking: The PHEV Emissions Scandal Continues
Real-world emissions from plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in 2024 were nearly six times higher than official WLTP (Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle…
In One Historically Black Florida Community, the Drinking Water Is Brown
Ann Jones, 81, turns on her kitchen faucet in Whitted, Florida and watches brown water flow out sometimes. The water ranges from clear to the color of…
Northern California Community Wants Stronger Oversight of Dangerous Refineries Nearby
Residents of Martinez, California gathered at an elementary school to demand stronger government oversight of nearby refineries after years of documen…
‘It’s shocking really’: Devon community tracks River Dart sewage spills
A community group in Devon has built an online platform to monitor and report sewage spills in the River Dart in real time. The citizen environmentali…
Study of Groundwater Near Fracking Sites Finds Low Radium Levels, but Raises Concerns About Increased Salinity
Researchers at Penn State University tested shallow groundwater aquifers near hydraulic fracturing sites in southwestern Pennsylvania and detected low…
Long After Wildfire Smoke Is Gone, Heavy Metals Could Still Be Harming Survivors’ Lungs
# Heavy Metals From Wildfire Smoke Persist in Survivors' Bodies, Study Finds Three years after the devastating Maui wildfires, researchers are docume…
The Human Cost Of Data Center Pollution
Data centers powering artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and streaming services emit diesel pollution that mirrors the carcinogenic exhaust fro…
The toxic air we breathe: the health crisis from Australia's bushfires
Australia's 2019-2020 bushfire season created an unprecedented air quality catastrophe, with smoke concentrations reaching 26 times the hazardous thre…
The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities
# 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination Spreads Through Pennsylvania's Rural Water Systems Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or "forever…