Pollution

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House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical

by Sharon Lerner

October 17, 2025, 12:20 pm EDT
U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release “Science-Based” Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

by Sharon Lerner

December 18, 2024, 12:10 pm EST
Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

by Lisa Song

August 29, 2024, 5:00 am EDT

Series

39 stories published since 2009

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

by Lisa Song, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica

October 30, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

by Nick Bowlin, The Frontier

October 29, 2025, 5:30 am EDT
Help Us Report on the Impact of Oil Field Waste in Oklahoma

by Nick Bowlin, The Frontier

October 29, 2025, 5:25 am EDT
House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical

by Sharon Lerner

October 17, 2025, 12:20 pm EDT
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

by Sharon Lerner

October 9, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica

September 3, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center

by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism

August 22, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

by Anna Clark

July 2, 2025, 6:30 am EDT
TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.

by Sharon Lerner and Lisa Song

March 26, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

by Sharon Lerner

March 6, 2025, 5:00 am EST
How Trump’s EPA Threatens Efforts to Clean Up Areas Affected Most by Dangerous Air Pollution

by Lisa Song

February 5, 2025, 5:00 am EST
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm

by Sharon Lerner

January 22, 2025, 3:10 pm EST
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

by Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas

January 8, 2025, 5:00 am EST
The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

by Mark Olalde, illustrations by Peter Arkle, special to ProPublica

December 30, 2024, 5:00 am EST
U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release “Science-Based” Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

by Sharon Lerner

December 18, 2024, 12:10 pm EST
Check the Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood

by Al Shaw and Sharon Lerner

December 3, 2024, 5:05 am EST
Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.

by Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw

December 3, 2024, 5:00 am EST
Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

by Lisa Song

August 29, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
How a Green Tech Startup With No Climate Experience Secured Millions of Dollars in Government Contracts

by Anjeanette Damon

August 7, 2024, 6:00 am EDT
California Isn’t Enforcing Its Strongest-in-the-Nation Oil Well Cleanup Law on Its Largest Oil Company

by Mark Olalde

July 24, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference

by Lisa Song

May 10, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.

by Lisa Song

April 15, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
How We Measured the Environmental Cost of Bankrupt Mines

by Scott Pham for ProPublica; Ken Ward Jr., Mountain State Spotlight; and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica

April 26, 2023, 5:05 am EDT
We’re Releasing the Data Behind Our Toxic Air Analysis

by Lylla Younes and Al Shaw

March 16, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
How We Created the Most Detailed Map Ever of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

by Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Ava Kofman

November 2, 2021, 4:59 am EDT
“They Deserve to Be Safe”: Candidates Call on Florida to Investigate the Health Effects of Sugar Cane Burning

by Hannah Morse, The Palm Beach Post

October 29, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
The EPA Refuses to Reduce Pollutants Linked to Coronavirus Deaths

by Lisa Song and Lylla Younes

October 21, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
How a PG&E Contractor With a Sketchy Past Made Millions After California’s Deadliest Fire

by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation

June 30, 2020, 10:00 am EDT
How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled

by Joan Meiners, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate

December 27, 2019, 6:00 am EST
How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat

by Abrahm Lustgarten

July 9, 2018, 5:00 am EDT
What It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA

by Talia Buford

December 18, 2017, 12:17 pm EST
Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate

by Abrahm Lustgarten

August 2, 2017, 1:12 am EDT
Kaboom Town

by Abrahm Lustgarten

July 21, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
EPA’s Abandoned Wyoming Fracking Study One Retreat of Many

by Abrahm Lustgarten

July 3, 2013, 11:58 am EDT
Charting the Human Cost of Different Types of Energy

by Nicholas Kusnetz and Marian Wang

March 18, 2011, 3:25 pm EDT
The BP Oil Spill Saga: Where Things Stand Now

by Marian Wang

December 28, 2010, 1:11 pm EST
Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water

by Abrahm Lustgarten

September 1, 2010, 4:42 pm EDT
Despite Internal Concerns About Rig Safety, Transocean Says It’s Shielded By Contract

by Marian Wang

August 5, 2010, 11:25 am EDT
EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking

by Abrahm Lustgarten

August 25, 2009, 12:36 pm EDT