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A July suit by a group of commercial fishers and seafood processors against Venture Global claims that work on the company’s $30 billion new liquefied natural gas terminal resulted in dead and diminished catches.

On the Congo River, plastic is becoming the catch of the day. Some fishermen around Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, can now make more money pulling plastic from the water than catching fish.

From small water systems installing new filters to towns weighing multimillion-dollar connections to cleaner supplies, New Hampshire communities are confronting the financial and bureaucratic challenges of PFAS contamination.

Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.

Environmental quality is a personal health issue. And it should shape how physicians, communities, and policymakers respond.

The Trump administration is reshaping regulations to make data centers — and the fossil-fuel power fueling them — easier to build. Critics say the changes could increase pollution and reduce public input.

Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable.

Mercury is a heavy metal used in illegal gold mining, a violent, highly profitable illicit activity that is currently booming.

Two smoke-damage bills awaiting the governor’s signature address a longstanding issue brought to the fore by the Los Angeles County fires: When is it safe for wildfire survivors to move back into their homes?

This summer at Gas Works Park, a new sound to Lake Union has brought a fresh conversation to a decades-old problem: contamination from the land’s past life as a coal-oil plant.

Kristi West, a lead researcher from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Health and Stranding Lab, found that 23% of the pilot whales she examined over a 13-year period had plastic in their stomachs.

The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness’s toll becomes more apparent.

The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness’s toll becomes more apparent.

Eider ducks and bald eagles that nest in and around Harpswell have high levels of PFAS chemicals following an August 2024 spill of firefighting foam on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.

The PA Department of Environmental Protection says between 2023 and August 2026, Shell’s ethane cracker, exceeded limits on visible emissions set by its state-issued air permit more than two dozen times.

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ecosystems of Latin America.

Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’

Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself breathing it again.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the Palisades nuclear plant failed to implement a radiation protection program for workers at the plant during an incident in February.

Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.