Revealed: chemicals giant sold Louisiana plant amid fears over cost of offsetting toxic emissions
Multibillion-dollar company DuPont worried about the potential cost of offsetting emissions of a ‘likely human carcinogen’
The Chicago plant that sparked a hunger strike amid environmental racism claims
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a…
Pollutionwatch: campaign calls on doctors to champion clean air
Cardiac organisations want GPs to advise us about the air we breathe, much as they began to warn against smoking…
Activist Catherine Flowers: the poor living amid sewage is ‘the final monument of the Confederacy’
In rural Alabama where Martin Luther King marched for civil rights, Flowers has waged a long fight for environmental justice
‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds
Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed…
England’s pollution levels soared during August heatwave
Cocktail of toxins formed over most of England, reaching level seven on 10-point warning system
Nautical not nice: how fibreglass boats have become a global pollution problem
Fibreglass fuelled a boating boom. But now dumped and ageing craft are breaking up, releasing toxins and microplastics across the…
Residents of England’s most polluted spot divided over solution
In summer, 20,000 vehicles a day pass through Chideock village in Dorset, flooding the air with toxic nitrogen dioxide
Toxic air over London falls by 50% at busiest traffic spots
Lower pollution levels must persist after lockdown says capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan
Manchester becomes latest UK city to delay clean air zone
Leeds, Birmingham and Bath also push back green plans and blame coronavirus pandemic