Houston Chemical-Fire Smoke Set to Descend, Closing Schools March 20, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Stephen Stapczynski About the photo: Residents look on at the plume of smoke rising from a fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Co....
Chemical Fire Timeline Abandoned as Plume Towers Over Houston March 19, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Rachel Adams-Heard As a towering plume of black smoke billowed a mile above Houston for a third day, local officials said they...
California Wildfires Left Toxic Threats Behind March 13, 2019 By Sharon Bernstein PARADISE, Calif. — As an uncontrollable wildfire turned the California town of Paradise to ash, air pollution researcher Keith Bein...
Effects of Global Warming Making US Sick April 8, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Man-made global warming is making America sicker, and it’s only going to get worse, according to a new federal government...
Study Finds Air Pollution Kills 3.3M Globally, Likely to Double by 2050 September 23, 2015 By SETH BORENSTEIN Air pollution is killing 3.3 million people a year worldwide, according to a new study that includes this surprise: Farming...
China Inspectors Assigned After Severe Smog February 24, 2014 China’s environment ministry said Sunday that it had sent inspectors to Beijing and other areas of the country to inspect...
China’s Love Affair With Cars Chokes Air in Cities February 1, 2013 By LOUISE WATT Endless lines of slow-moving cars emerge like apparitions and then disappear again into the gloom of the thick smog that...
Severe Beijing Smog Prompts Unusual Transparency January 15, 2013 By GILLIAN WONG and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN One of Beijing’s worst rounds of air pollution kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals Monday, but this...
Shell to Pay $500,000 for Pollution in Texas September 9, 2011 Shell Chemical LP has agreed to pay $500,000 to a Texas County over five different air pollution events at its...