Pollution

The VA announced it will cover health care costs for Marine dependents who contracted cancer and other illnesses from toxic water at Camp Lejeune, as promised two years ago.

A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.

Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live.

Millions of people living near refineries will be directly affected by a long awaited updates to regulations the EPA has proposed for oil refineries.

The pesticide chlorpyrifos was banned for household use over a dozen years ago, but it is still widely applied in agriculture.

For the first time in history, County Council in the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i blocked a citizen-led petition to stop further GMO development until corporations could prove the safety …

A farmer decides to use an abandoned prison to grow pot, and more.

Although ALEC recently proclaimed it was being falsely portrayed as “anti-clean energy,” the latest revelations confirm that ALEC continues to pursue a polluters' wish list, despite its PR pronouncements.

With a federal website listing thousands of toxic pollution reports scrapped due to a security breach, environmental watchdogs are without a crucial tool for holding polluters and government regulators …

In 2002, San Francisco made a promise that it intends to keep: by 2020 the city will eliminate all waste that is neither recycled nor composted.