Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flare and black smoke are seen from a chemical plant from Texas Highway 225 Thursday, March 21, 2024 in Deer Park. (Yi-Chin ...

Residential wood burning is a major but underrecognized source of wintertime PM2.5 air pollution, disproportionately harming urban communities and people of color despite relatively low wood use.

When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution inspectors for more than a month. Those workers had to stop their work of monitoring ...