The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

With the ignominious collapse of cap and trade legislation in the Senate, the climate campaign is licking its wounds and wondering where it went wrong. Greens are pointing fingers at the bad economy, ...

This episode is from WHRO’s Spotlight Earth series. The video explores environmental hazards. In this Spotlight Earth episode, you will explore environmental hazards that can impact our health, both ...

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This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The predominantly black and low-income communities living near the back-to-back petrochemical ...

Philly Councilmember Helen Gym plans to introduce legislation Thursday that could protect already overburdened communities by keeping additional pollution out. Philadelphia Councilmember Helen Gym ...

Glitter might seem like a harmless decorative material, but it actually poses critical environmental hazards — and scientists want them banned. Glitter can be quite impossible to remove when it sticks ...

In place for almost 20 years, Connecticut General Statutes Section 22a-6u defines certain environmental conditions as significant environmental hazards (SEHs). The statute requires that the owner of a ...

RODANTHE, N.C. — Two lawmakers, one from North Carolina and the other from Maine, are teaming up to help coastal homeowners dealing with properties experiencing long-time erosion and the possibility ...

According to the agency, the affected facilities repeatedly ignored the National Environmental (Battery Control) Regulations, ...