Pollution

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, …

The great monarch migration is in peril, a victim of rampant herbicide use in faraway corn and soybean fields, extreme weather, a tiny microbial pathogen and deforestation. Monarch butterfly …

Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents.

The Texas legislature's rush to protect the oil and gas industry reflects a culture in which politics and business are almost inseparable.

Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.

Months after Freedom Industries spilled 10,000 gallons of toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol into the Elk River in West Virginia, many residents rely on volunteer efforts for safe drinking water.

When you have 305 million chickens on the Eastern Shore, that's a lot of poultry waste polluting the Chesapeake Bay.

New Mexico's governor has given the copper industry carte blanche to pollute what is left of the state's groundwater.

An internal ALEC document provided to the Center for Media and Democracy shows that a Peabody Energy lobbyist provided ALEC legislators with a presentation on how to get more …

A new study has underscored just how little is known about the health consequences of the natural gas boom that began a decade ago, when advances in high-volume hydraulic …