An air pollution disaster over the two southwestern Pennsylvania towns of Donora and Webster in October 1948 took dozens of lives, left thousands literally gasping for breath, and motivated the United ...

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

The research, to be published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters, finds that air pollution from sources in the United States leads to 100,000 deaths in the U.S ...

That is so counterintuitive and contrary to what is printed in the media, that it is worth repeating: Most places in the United States would not benefit from tighter air pollution standards. If the ...

How Air Pollution Across America Reflects Racist Policy From the 1930s. A new study shows how redlining, ... Air pollution has decreased overall in the United States since 2010, ...

We directly assessed associations between life expectancy and fine-particulate air pollution in 51 U.S. metropolitan areas, comparing data for the period from the late 1970s to the early 1980s ...

To skirt air pollution oversight, states can play hide and ... A 2021 study in Science Advances shows racial-ethnic minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to higher levels ...

Pollution doesn’t respect national borders. Outsourcing manufacturing to China may have resulted in less pollution in some parts of the United States, but other regions have lesser air quality ...

Air pollution worsened in the United States in 2017 and 2018, new data shows, a reversal after years of sustained improvement with significant implications for public health. In 2018 alone ...