State regulators say a wood treatment plant in the small town of Sheridan, Ore., broke environmental rules for years.

Our current environment has a few issues, and many of these appear to be deteriorating with time. This has brought humans into a period of a serious environmental crisis. Consequently, increasing ...

Exposure to air pollution may directly increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. In the study, published Feb. 17 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine, researchers found ...

This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. In the first five months of his second term, ...

Houston — Donna Thomas is a pollution warrior in Houston, Texas. She wears a mask because she believes a lifetime of breathing polluted air in her community contributed to a stroke four years ago.

Five Southern California communities have been awarded federal grants totaling $3 million to help transform polluted “brownfield” sites into land that’s safe for development, the U.S. Environmental ...

The Agri Star Meat and Poultry processing plant in Postville had the most cases of enforcement of water pollution, air pollution and other negligence charges by the Environmental Protection Agency in ...

California is updating CalEnviroScreen, the influential pollution tracker that helps determine which communities get ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders could be triggered by air pollution, including the type emitted in car exhaust, a new study suggested — though it had some ...

Robert Taylor built his two-story brick house in St. John the Baptist Parish, La., in 1969. He and his neighbors turned pastures for dairy cows into what's now Reserve, an unincorporated area in ...

Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...