CARROLL GARDENS — The expensive and lengthy cleanup of the Gowanus Canal will rid the waterway of dangerous contaminants, but it won't make it clean...
One man's $500 million EPA superfund site is another man's home. The New York Post has an article today about the four houseboats currently docked...
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A preliminary study of an asbestos-plagued Montana town indicates health dangers remain in some areas already addressed in a federa...
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Getting "Gas"-y at the Oscars; Freakin' Frackin'; Natural disasters are expensive; Catastrophic flooding, drought around the world.
Rather than polluting the sky to catch a breath of fresh air in some rain forest, maybe we should discover the joy of dirt. You could call it the opposite of eco-tourism; pollu-tourism. Take Butte, Montana.
One of the most important issues facing coastal residents is air quality. Journalists have a responsibility to examine the science and the public has a responsibility to learn more about their environment.
There is no question that the Superfund program, first established 30 years ago, is facing a budget crunch. For 15 years, the federal government impos...
CHICAGO — The Environmental Protection Agency has added a cluster of waste-disposal sites in Chicago and a former copper smelter in southern Ill...
NEW YORK — For at least 120 years, city officials have been promising to do something about the oily, smelly mess that is the Gowanus Canal. No...
Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.
Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.
In Today's Audio Report: One step forward and two steps back for Obama and the Democrats -- the changing political climate of climate change politics....
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — For decades, the New Bedford Harbor was a dumping ground for industrial metals and other contaminants. But now that harbor ...
I say it's time for some departmental renaming. What do you call a Defense Department that makes you sicker and an environmental protection agency that can't?
The three biggest banks in the nation--Citigroup, Bank of America, and J.P. Morgan Chase--have agreed on the structure of a $75 billion fund intended ...
Environmental groups typically allied with Democrats are taking aim at centrist Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), accusing her of doing the bidding of Ar...
