Most notably Biden re-committed the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to keep global surface temperature rises below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels, though Trump ...

EPA's Chicago office faces major cuts, risking disaster response and health assessments in Detroit and Hamtramck.

Utilities, including Duke Energy, seek EPA rollbacks on coal ash cleanup and emissions rules. Advocates warn it risks public health, especially in North Carolina communities already exposed to toxic ...

Short-term exposure to air pollution can impair cognitive functions like attention and emotion recognition. These issues ...

Forever chemicals "can disrupt hormones in your body and lead to problems, things like increased risk of breast cancer, problems with fertility." ...

The U.S. EPA regulates levels of more than 90 contaminants in public drinking water, but thousands more potentially harmful ...

A report released in January by the Toxic Use Reduction Institute of Massachusetts’s, hosted at UMass Lowell, identified a ...

Nate Hagens, Leo Trasande, Linda Birnbaum and Christina Dixon take on the plastic pollution crisis: We cannot recycle our way ...

Though asthma-related ER visits have dropped, advocates still worry about industry's impact on health. Could new Allegheny County leadership spell change?

One concern is that people are too young to remember how bad dental health was before fluoride was added to public water supplies.

A plan for the US Food and Drug Administration to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals ...

The current state of cardiovascular health globally is significantly influenced by both environmental and metabolic factors, which interplay complexly to ...