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20 Years, Yet EPA Still Fails to Protect Us From Polluting Incinerators

An industrial incinerator frames a church playground in Midlothian, Texas.

Recognizing the threat incinerators pose to public health, Congress directed the EPA to set strict limits on all waste-burning incinerators by 1994. Twenty years later, EPA has only set pollution limits for 106 of the about 15,000 total facilities across the country.

MATES Study Confirms Air Progress in LA Areas, But Safe Air Hasn’t Been Achieved for All

A mother watches over her child during treatment for asthma. It remains to be unsafe to breathe in many parts of the South Coast Air Basin.

Breathing toxic air has consequences far worse than we originally thought. The recently released 2014 Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study indicates progress on air pollution, but also highlights that the fight for clean air isn't over yet.

California: A Terrible Place To Breathe

The Golden State claimed all five of the top slots for the highest air pollution in the American Lung Association's 2014 State of the Air Report.

More Coal Ash Disasters in Waiting

A coal ash spill in Tennessee in 2008 destroyed or damaged two dozen nearby homes

EPA finds eight more dangerous coal ash ponds in poor condition

Glimmers of Hope in the Global Effort to Save Bluefin Tuna

Recent developments in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico

Climate Change Laps at Our Doorstep

The island of Male, capital of Maldives Islands.

For the citizens of the nations represented by the Alliance of Small Island States, climate change is not an abstract threat. They face immediate danger today.

Tackling the Challenge of Climate Change: A Near-Term Actionable Mitigation Agenda

Children in Haiti hold up signs urging the international community to take action on climate change.

Commissioned by the Republic of Nauru, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and written by 30 leading climate and energy experts from around the world