EPA is working on repealing major air‑pollution rules for fossil‑fuel power plants, including weakening protections against mercury and other toxic emissions.

The lucrative, illegal trade and trafficking of waste products including many that are toxic could be set to surge across continents, thanks to patchy regulation, savvy criminal groups and corruption, ...

Gene-altering chemicals found in humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising alarm they may end up in human food chain ...

The Trump administration on Friday loosened restrictions on toxic power plant pollution, including releases of neurotoxins ...

Illegal waste flows are causing economic, public health and environmental damage, especially in low-income countries, while a patchwork of regulations enables criminals to evade punishment, according ...

Of all fossil fuels, coal emits the most carbon dioxide per unit of energy, and burning it releases deadly pollutants into ...

According to the EPA's own analysis, the repeal could result in an increase of nonmercury hazardous air pollution emissions ...

Extreme weather is intensifying across the globe, and the standard explanation points to greenhouse gas emissions warming the atmosphere. But a less examined dynamic may be compounding the damage: ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has imposed new standards for mercury, lead and other toxic pollutants that are discharged into the nation's rivers and streams from steam electric power plants.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful ...

Toxic chemicals from smartphones have been found in the brains of dolphins, say researchers in Hong Kong. Chinese scientists ...