The lawsuit contends the delay is costing thousands of life and is especially harmful to low‑income communities.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put more than 160 workers who tackle pollution in overburdened communities on leave. The employees were part of the agency’s Office of Environmental ...

Microplastics, minute plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter, have emerged as persistent pollutants across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. Their ubiquity has raised significant ...

A coalition of environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging the agency missed a key deadline ...

The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and biodiversity ...

A new water quality report card for Biscayne Bay again delivers sobering news: pollution in the bay continues to worsen. While the amount and location of the increase is not alarming, it does signal ...

Though the holiday season is here — with all the responsibilities it entails — some North Carolinians might consider adding one more thing to their to-do lists: weighing in on an EPA proposal that ...

The UK High Court has begun procedural hearings in what lawyers call the country’s largest environmental pollution case, involving more than 4,500 claimants against Avara Foods and Welsh Water over ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Senior Coordinating Producer of Climate and Environmental Coverage Tracy J. Wholf ...

The Phoenix-Mesa area ranks as the 4th worst in the nation for ozone pollution, according to a new American Lung Association report. Climate change, including extreme heat and wildfires, is worsening ...