Pollution

A call to awaken our nation to the suicidal course we are following offers some suggestions on protecting our environment - and reviving our democracy.

Even highly diluted levels of fracking wastewater could have a deadly effect on mayflies, the fragilely beautiful insect long-considered a key indicator of stream health.

When the company became inactive in Ecuador, it left a catastrophic mess behind.

When residents in the Quebec town of Lac-Mu00e9gantic describe the scene after an oil-train derailed and then exploded there last July, they say the burning petroleum was like a …

The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to regulate emissions from fossil-fuel burning power plants that drift across state lines, to states that may not share …

Environmental reporter Dan Fagin joins Democracy Now! to discuss his book that tells the story of how a small New Jersey town fought back against industrial pollution and astronomical …

Louisiana State University entomologist Linda Hooper-Bui work documents the dwindling of the insect population in areas directly hit with the oil.

Autumnwood, a community just outside Los Angeles, is riven by a fear held by many that the land on which the houses were built is contaminated with toxic chemicals.

Years after the disastrous BP oil spill caused massive environmental damage in the Gulf, smaller oil spills are a continuous but largely unnoticed problem.

Our national security vulnerabilities are not just terrorist cells in faraway lands. The United States plays host to thousands of nuclear weapons, toxic chemical dumps, radioactive waste storage facilities, …