Latest Pollution News
How safe is the air? Here's how to check and what the numbers mean
NEW YORK (AP) — How can you check the air quality in your area and what do the numbers mean? The Environmental Protection Agency monitors the air around the country and compiles an air quality index, or AQI. Here’s what to know about the index and how to keep tabs...
Editorial Roundup: Kentucky
Ashland Daily Independent. June 3, 2023. Editorial: New climate change study alarming Despite the amount of evidence showing how much danger we are in from climate change, it seems it’s difficult to get moving on a solution. We hope the most recent...
Virginia regulators advance Youngkin plan to leave climate initiative he calls ineffective
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators voted on Wednesday to advance Gov. Glenn Youngkin's plan to withdraw from a multistate carbon cap-and-trade program. Virginia spent years under Democratic administrations moving toward participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,...
Campaigners want fossil fuel firms to pay into climate calamity fund; diplomats dubious
BONN, Germany (AP) — Environmental campaigners called Wednesday for fossil fuel producers to contribute to a new fund intended to help poor countries cope with climate disasters. The so-called loss and damage fund was a key achievement of last year's U.N. climate summit in Egypt....
Poland, Germany discuss avoiding repeat of deadly river pollution but ready for all scenarios
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The environment ministers of Poland and Germany met on the border of the two countries on Wednesday to discuss protection of a river against a repeat of deadly pollution that killed hundreds of tons of fish last year. Polish Environment Minister Anna Moskwa...
Chesapeake Bay report cites environmental justice disparities
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A report on the Chesapeake Bay released Tuesday found strong disparities between communities in different parts of the bay's watershed in terms of health, economics and social justice concerns. The findings show a larger context for the challenges of improving...
DNA sucked into air filters can reveal what plants and animals are nearby
NEW YORK (AP) — DNA is all around us — even in the air we breathe. Now scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations — which pull in air to test for pollution — also pick up lots of DNA that can reveal what plants and animals have been in the area. The method...
Minnesota plans rewrite of rules for copper-nickel mining near popular wilderness
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators have concluded that state rules governing where copper-nickel mines can be built are insufficient to protect the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from noise and light pollution, creating another potential obstacle to the proposed Twin...
Federal appeals court halts EPA effort to impose air pollution plan in Missouri
A federal appeals court has put on hold an Environmental Protection Agency regulation aimed at reducing air pollution in Missouri, drawing criticism from environmentalists but praise from the state's attorney general who called the proposal “unconstitutional overreach.” ...
Chile closes state copper smelter that polluted bay for decades
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's state-owned copper mining giant Codelco on Wednesday shut down its Ventanas copper smelter after decades of polluting Quintero Bay with toxic gases and turning it, along with 15 other companies, into what environmentalists called a “sacrifice zone.” ...
