Extreme heat across much of the U.S. this week is triggering potentially unhealthy levels of air pollution, at least for those especially sensitive to dirty air, according to the Environmental ...

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Houston is expected to face a host of health challenges, including air pollution. Here are 5 facts about how air pollution affects people’s health. In the wake of ...

Air pollution has been declining for decades across the United States, yet most Americans still believe air pollution is a growing problem and a serious threat to their health. The reason: most ...

America has been getting rid of its industrial base and as a result pollution will tend to decrease in America. Where does it all go? Other countries should know the bitter lessons of pollution should ...

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 spoke with the CEO of a Texas company who has an idea to take some pollution out of steel mills and turn it into profit.In its first-generation technology, CarbonFree sucks ...

Very little attention is likely to be paid to a report by the General Accountability Office that says most drinking water in the U.S. is contaminated with pharmaceuticals, and most of those drugs are ...

I am typing this story on a plastic keyboard, while sitting at a plastic desk, wearing plastic eyeglasses. Plastic is everywhere. Lightweight, versatile and inexpensive to produce, plastic helps our ...

After the Olympic Games officially begin on Aug. 5, Olympic sailors and swimmers will begin competing in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, though some of them have been practicing there for the past few ...

The mustard hue of the Animas River in Colorado – the most visible effect of a mistake by the Environmental Protection Agency that dumped millions of gallons of pollutants into the water – is striking ...

Earth Day on Sunday marks the 48th year of a celebration for the planet that we share, and it has grown to more than 1 billion people across about 192 countries showing support for protecting the ...