All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2026 // Trump administration officials traveled to Los Angeles this week to outline the president’s plan to override state and local rules and speed up the permitting process for reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes...
Feb 6 2026 // Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study.The paper, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that...
Feb 5 2026 // When the phaseout of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was first agreed in 1987, the world narrowly avoided an environmental catastrophe. However, the replacement of CFCs is causing the pollution of the...
Jan 30 2026 // AXA XL has added new coverages to its pollution and remediation liability insurance for lenders, further protecting them from losses in the event of a loan default.The Protective Environmental Asset Coverage Enhancement...
Jan 20 2026 // Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the State of Oklahoma has reached a settlement agreement with George’s, Inc., resolving claims related to poultry litter pollution in the Illinois River...
Jan 14 2026 // The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a rule revising Biden-era pollution protections for waterways, a move the Environmental Protection Agency said would speed permitting of energy and artificial intelligence...
Jan 13 2026 // Alma Figueroa began to worry when she learned that her gas provider wanted to test a controversial solution to curb global warming: blend hydrogen with natural gas to power her stove and other appliances. Figueroa, who has...
Jan 5 2026 // The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the...
Dec 11 2025 // The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental...
Nov 26 2025 // Rapidly growing e-commerce and last-mile delivery services have contributed to significant increases in crashes, traffic, workplace injuries and air pollution, according to a report from New York City Comptroller Brad...
Nov 14 2025 // New Jersey officials announced five new environmental enforcement actions in communities considered overburdened under New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law and the settlement of two previous environmental justice...
Nov 4 2025 // More than five years after first announcing stricter controls on industrial farm pollution in Michigan, state environmental regulators will finally start enforcing them.Regulations issued Wednesday by the Michigan...
Oct 23 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their...
Oct 23 2025 // The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has long attracted anglers, hikers and poets is now the subject of a major pollution lawsuit.The case – against a...
Oct 22 2025 // The UK plans to make it easier to fine water companies that harm the environment, ramping up pressure on firms blamed for chronic sewage spills.The government wants to allow the Environment Agency to impose “quicker...
Oct 9 2025 // Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch, watching the sun slowly dip behind the cows grazing on their neighbor’s ranch.It was the calm country life they...
Oct 6 2025 // A toxic cloud of chemicals was released from an industrial site near Cocoa Beach last week, but authorities said no one was seriously injured, and the leak has been repaired.Florida Today and other news outlets reported...
Oct 6 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Orlando Askins, Askins Development Group LLC, and Shaw Holding Group LLC to resolve alleged violations of the federal Toxic Substances Control...
Oct 3 2025 // When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility...
Oct 2 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed loosening a rule phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, highly potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners.The Tuesday proposal comes in...