When the Biden administration stopped approving licenses to export US liquefied natural gas in January of last year, ...

This metric captures the risk pollution poses to health per capita, using a risk score from the Environmental Protection Agency that measures long-term, chronic human health effects of toxic ...

The natural environment category is one of eight categories driving the overall Best States rankings, and encompasses metrics reflecting pollution threats and air and water quality. Learn more ...

Pollutants are chemicals and substances that are harmful to our health or the natural environment. Air pollution happens both indoors and outside. Outside air pollution is mainly caused by traffic ...

The Justice Department dropped a landmark lawsuit alleging that emissions from a Louisiana petrochemical plant pose a danger ...

Several environmental groups intend to sue Alliant Energy’s Iowa affiliate, claiming it is discharging polluted groundwater into waters upstream of Ottumwa without a permit.