For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes ...

PARIS — Global negotiators have agreed to craft a draft treaty to end plastic pollution, a preliminary but crucial step toward tackling one of the most lasting sources of human waste. Environmental ...

In this paper we develop a policy model for pollution control investment and operational decisions in the copper industry. The system consists of (i) a nonlinear integer model to optimize smelter ...

Las Vegas is a city that never sleeps, and neither do its glittering lights. It’s home to the brightest light beam in the world atop the Luxor, and now, the biggest and brightest sphere on the planet.

As a kid, I loved listening to my dad extol the virtues of the polyvinyl flooring business he ran: the softness, durability, water resistance, insulation properties, and price. Its odor sometimes made ...

A new computer model from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science was recently chosen to replace an aging system used to guide the massive Chesapeake Bay restoration project. The U.S. Environmental ...