BREMERTON — Walk any Puget Sound beach and you're bound to find plastic garbage — a soda bottle, a chunk of foam, maybe a dog's lost chew toy. But that's just the plastic pollution you can see. The ...

Pollution is a public health concern, and is considered to be any harmful material introduced to the environment. Many materials can cause such harm and are referred to as pollutants. Pollutants are ...

Several months ago, I awoke at midnight to the grating sound of a jackhammer. The construction crew at a building across from my New York City apartment had received a special permit to work late into ...

Air pollution has been a problem in Utah since before the territory was officially recognized as a state. The mountain valleys of this high elevation region are particularly vulnerable to the buildup ...

Power plants account for more than one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Biden administration on Thursday announced a series of new rules designed to cut pollution emitted from coal and ...