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Despite residents’ health complaints and community pushback, the airport’s operations continue to expand, intensifying concerns about its health effects.

Inequality – between the rich and poor or between the powerful and the weak – is the main factor stalling action on environmental problems including biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change, according to British environmentalist Tony Juniper.

Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment. As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect land, water and air, including well beyond their own boundaries.

EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rules

Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’

Exposure to air pollution in early life could have lasting effects on child development and mental health in adolescence, according to our recent study.

Residents are too afraid to drink water from their local wells or open their windows for fear of the stench of nearby livestock operations.

Many popular swimming spots have been flooded with pollution in recent years, which has been blamed on mass sewage discharges

Environmental and residents' action groups on Tuesday hailed a decision to charge the steel group ArcelorMittal with pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere in south-eastern France and attempting to cover up its tracks.