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, ...

The Trump administration on Friday loosened restrictions on toxic power plant pollution, including releases of neurotoxins mercury and lead. On Friday, it revoked portions of Biden-era standards that ...

The action could allow the plants to release more dangerous heavy metals, including brain-damaging mercury and cancer-causing arsenic, marking yet another step by the administration to reverse Biden ...

Last week, the Trump administration said it is loosening restrictions on air toxins from mercury, lead, and other heavy metals that are released by coal plants. Such pollution is known to be ...

Northwest Indiana was included in a recent report about potentially dangerous levels of toxic pollutants at steel plants nationwide. The Environmental Integrity Project, on Thursday, released a report ...

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: ...

Of all fossil fuels, coal emits the most carbon dioxide per unit of energy, and burning it releases deadly pollutants into the air. Exposure to pollution from coal-powered plants has been linked to ...

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.

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by ...

Toxic foam and odor at Wazirabad barrage raise pollution concerns for Delhi's drinking water, as contamination may spread upstream in the Yamuna.