Environment & Health

A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state's aquifers.

“This is my hood, and this is where I grow,” says Sophia Buggs of her thriving Ohio farm.

A total of eight Water Protectors were arrested over the course of Wednesday's direct action.

Eleanor Fairchild, an 82-year-old grandmother who owns a 425-acre ranch outside of Winnsboro, Texas, tells about her battle with TransCanada.

A federal judge has denied a request from the former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C.

We have to face some inconvenient facts about our health care system, six years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act.

Legislative hearings have begun about the water crisis in Hoosick Falls, New York, and many people have been dropping the F word: Flint.

For years, local Ohioans have been told by courts and elected officials that they have no control over fracking.

It's too early to hail Sikkim's transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers.

Unlike most water contaminants, lead gets into water after it leaves a water treatment plant.