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Sterigenics, its parent company and a corporate predecessor should pay $363 million in damages for exposing a Willowbrook, Illinois, woman and thousands of others to cancer-causing ethylene oxide pollution, a Cook County jury decided Monday.

A contentious air pollution exemption granted to Vales Point power station would be carried over to the plant's prospective new owner Sev.en Energy if the existing conditions of sale are upheld.

RepuTex says safeguard mechanism could hand free credits to big industrial polluters and lock in fossil fuel production

Stress on public participation in creating healthy cities, while fighting pollution

Some have called for Canal Street to be reopened to ease congestion

One of the main air pollutants commonly associated with using gas stoves is nitrogen dioxide.

Fine particulate air pollution increased cardiac arrhythmias in teens.

A new study has upended the way researchers think about how air pollution causes lung cancer. The work cracks open a whole new way of thinking about certain cancers and how to treat and even prevent them. It also suggests environmental agencies may have good reason to impose much stricter…

BP, the giant oil company, agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by environmental groups that accused the Whiting refinery of repeatedly violating the U.S. Clean Air Act.

Oil titan BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit over air pollution from its largest refinery

Texas’ environmental regulators make it tricky for residents to track, or speak out against, industrial projects proposed near their homes. Advocates in Houston built a high-tech workaround.