The Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths. On ...
WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rolling back one of the Biden administration’s standards aimed at reducing ...
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter—a plant that turns zinc ore ...