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

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 ...

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

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

The Environmental Protection Agency plans on only considering the industrial cost of air pollution, not the human cost, when ...

Gases: These include nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and ground-level ozone. “These are potent oxidisers,” says Dr Mahto. “When they touch the skin, they deplete your natural antioxidant reserves and trigger a ...

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 ...

Air pollution is easy to ignore. It’s often hard to see, little more than an intense hue on the horizon at sunset or a disconcerting tint in the sky seen from a plane window when landing. It often ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric ...

Antibiotic factories release resistance genes at levels 100x higher than city sewage. Pharmaceutical pollution is fueling ...