"EPA announced the removal today [Wednesday] of 18 previously polluted tracts from its Superfund cleanup list over the past 12 months, the most in any fiscal year since 2005."
"The Supreme Court will not revive an Obama-era climate regulation struck down last year."
"Short-lived climate pollutants like methane released from oil and gas fields and black carbon from diesel engines are many times more powerful than carbon dioxide but don't last as long in the atmosphere."
"Robert Bilott, who successfully sued DuPont over PFOA, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of everyone in the U.S. who has PFAS chemicals in their blood."
"A sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the petrochemical industry — which includes plastic, fertilizer and pharmaceutical companies — threatens to erode climate benefits from reductions in other sectors, according to a report being issued Friday."
"Aleigha Sloan can't remember ever drinking a glass of water from the tap at her home. That is 'absolutely dangerous,' the 17-year-old says, wrinkling her nose and making a face at the thought."
"The Trump administration’s latest rule weakening the way a greenhouse gas is regulated in cooling units also strips out language on how climate change affects children, new documents show."
"A former Koch Industries chemical engineer will soon be leading the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) main office for scientific research."
"Nitrogen fertilizer is a disaster. Abandoning it would be a bigger disaster. Now a dozen billionaires are funding an alternative."
"Killer whales are in deep trouble because of persistent chemical pollution in the environment, researchers say."
