The Trump administration is now acting to eliminate even the pretense of concern with impacts on human health. In effect, ...

Administrator Lee Zeldin denied a report from The New York Times that his department will no longer consider the cost to ...

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary ...

The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned ...

The Trump administration plans to stop assigning value to human life when analyzing the costs and benefits of air pollution ...

In theory, the EPA could still include the number of lives saved in how it considers the upside of a regulation without ...

Agency to focus rules for fine particulate matter and ozone only on cost to industry, aligning with Trump approach ...

Acid rain is a very broad term. It encompasses not only rain but also other forms of precipitation including fog, hail, sleet, snow, dust, and gas. It can even cause haze or smog, contributing to the ...

New Delhi recorded more than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses at six state-run hospitals between 2022 and 2024, government numbers showed, highlighting the adverse effects of toxic air on ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

One day in January, foamy waves jostled the edge of a floating dock in New York City’s Hudson River Park. The structure, assembled from interlocking rectangles, looked bucking, alive, insistent on ...

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...