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The new federal limits target six cancer-causing chemicals and aim to reduce the cancer risk of cancer for nearby communities.

Failure to account for climate change means low-income homeowners could see their home values plunge

The Inflation Reduction Act is both the most important federal climate legislation ever and sadly inadequate to protect the U.S. and the world from the effects of climate change. Where it falls short, states could intervene with tougher regulations — but many won’t. That leaves corporations, which can pressure their…

Scientists took a dozen research flights over major U.S. oil and gas fields to sample flare emissions. They found more methane than was supposed to be there.

Oil and gas companies produce 3.8 billion barrels of wastewater per year in the arid Permian Basin. A state consortium is trying to figure out whether it can be reused.

US-born sustainable finance expert Jason Patrick tells Nikki Mandow why New Zealand’s green bank is better than most | Content partnership

A suit has been filed against the maker of Skittles over titanium dioxide, a color additive that has been on the market for decades but which has been banned in food by European authorities.

President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems knows, he says, that transitioning away from the climate-wrecking pollution of fossil fuels is the only way to go

Art Cooley, a longtime activist who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund, has died