Open Access Government explores the issue of water pollution and its severe implications for public health and the ...

Aging plants that process a byproduct of crude oil refining into vital metals feedstocks exist in a gap of federal pollution oversight, allowing the facilities to have an outsized impact on localized ...

The EPA’s long-awaited rules for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are here, but they still don’t address a major source of pollution. The EPA’s long-awaited rules for greenhouse gas ...

POSTVILLE, Iowa — In March, officials in Postville shut down its water treatment facility for two days as city employees worked to prevent polluted water from a meatpacking plant from entering the ...

A research team in central Germany is testing a compact wastewater treatment plant designed to operate entirely on solar ...

Power plants account for more than one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Biden administration on Thursday announced a series of new rules designed to cut pollution emitted from coal and ...

Electric power generation in the U.S. is rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels toward cleaner and lower-carbon sources. State clean energy targets and dramatic declines in the cost of renewable ...

As China rapidly urbanizes, turning waste into energy has become a key way to handle growing trash volumes and reduce landfill use, while also creating power. Yet, concerns about the pollution from ...

The Biden administration cracked down on planet-warming emissions and other pollution from power plants Thursday, aiming to make these power sources more environmentally friendly. The Environmental ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its ...

Before leaving her East Texas home, Paulette Goree checks her air monitor. If the hue is green on the connected phone app, she steps outside to tend to her backyard garden where she grows tomatoes, ...

Lawyer Wu Congsi has asthma and keeps air purifiers whirring away in his office, home and car to counter Beijing's hazardous smog. He prefers to stay inside unless the sky is blue. But this year, he's ...