The lawsuit contends the delay is costing thousands of life and is especially harmful to low‑income communities.

California is taking the EPA to court for missing a mandated deadline to crack down on cancer-linked fine particle pollution.

The Trump administration is hoping a court blocks the Biden-era rule. States say EPA doesn't have the authority to ignore the ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the agency has left states without the tools they need to reduce air pollution.

“Vermonters value both human and environmental health, but the Trump Administration is neglecting both in its failure to implement the soot standard,” said Attorney General Charity Clark. “With ...

A coalition of environmental groups has accused EPA in court of dragging its feet on implementing the Biden-era particulate ...

South Florida air quality was graded by American Lung Association, which analyzed 2022-2024 data to grade counties on ...

The exhaust from diesel-fueled vehicles, wood fires and coal-driven power stations contains small particles of soot that flow out into the atmosphere. The soot is a scourge for the climate but also ...

A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change. Compared to ...

NASA scientists say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming by reducing the ability of snow and ice to reflect sunlight. Their findings on how ...

The county earned a C in both 24-hour particle (soot) and ozone pollution (smog) in the report. They are the same grades it ...

Toxic emissions from a factory in Rupsha upazila of Khulna have been causing environmental pollution in at least eight neighbouring villages.