The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

LOS ANGELES — California’s largest and most expensive environmental cleanup has failed to properly remove lead pollution from some homes and neighborhoods near a notorious battery recycler in southeast Los Angeles County, leaving residents at continued risk, a Los Angeles Times investigation shows.

Exclusive: Poll shows national support for ban in urban areas, where burners have worst impact

As we wait for a decision on the future of the Clean Air Zone one year after the plans were paused, Local Democracy Reporter Joseph Timan looks back at what happened and where we are now.

Two new studies show a link between long-term exposure to multiple air pollutants and detrimental mental health effects.

A white mask looked dusty and had turned grey as if it had been left in a dustbin when in fact it had been worn for just one day by a resident in Lampang.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time the effect of exposure to traffic pollution on the brain's functioning.

Former environmental activist Erin Mendenhall leads a fast-growing city threatened by toxic dust from the lake’s shrinking water levels

People living close to the former landfill site in Rainham are demanding action to end the near-constant fires, reports Barney Davis

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reaffirming the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants

A resident said it was around the fifth pollution incident along the Afon Dulas since he had lived in the area

France’s food safety authority Anses has moved to ban S-metolachlor, a common herbicide used by cereal farmers, because of significant groundwater pollution. The product joins an increasingly growing list of chemicals no longer allowed in French agriculture.