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The EU's billion-Euro bet

By Brigitte Alfter

How Europe ended up paying industry for carbon capture and storage

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Can a free market help clear the air?

By Rakesh Kalshian

BINGOs and the global lobbyist

By Kate Willson

The climate lobby from soup to nuts

By Marianne Lavelle and M.B. Pell

Carbon as a commodity

By Marianne Lavelle

IMPACT: Green groups challenge EPA's air pollution exemption for biomass power plants

By Ronnie Greene

Lawsuits challenge "politically favored" clean energy that isn't so clean - biomass plants

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Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

Environmentalists decry 'irresponsible' lobbying by coal-burning utilities

By Alice Su

Community coated in black mist — until citizens fought back

By Ronnie Greene and Howard Berkes

EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution

By Corbin Hiar

Fourth fire this year strikes refinery that relies on toxic acid

By Chris Hamby

Company reports no chemical releases, but event underscores risks to nation's aging fuel factories

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Report urges phaseout of deadly acid

By Chris Hamby

IMPACT: Refinery's use of toxic chemical spurs hearing

By Jim Morris

Communities at risk from oil refineries that use toxic chemical

By Kimberly Leonard

Use of toxic acid puts millions at risk

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

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Before Obama retreat on ozone, EPA chief fretted over likely illnesses and deaths

By Corbin Hiar

Before Obama retreat on smog, EPA head fretted over illnesses and deaths

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Smog-forming and toxic gases 'consistently' undercounted, major study finds

By Bill Dawson

Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

5 questions for William Ruckelshaus

By Corbin Hiar

Q&A: Former Bush official touts ‘market-based’ air toxics regulation

By Corbin Hiar

Republicans score another symbolic defeat for EPA — this time over toxic coal ash

By Alexandra Duszak

Lack of federal oversight of coal ash cleanup continues with recent House legislation

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Coal ash: The hidden story

By Kristen Lombardi

EPA releases utilities' plans to make coal ash storage safer

By John Solomon

Democrats join fight against coal ash regulation

By Kristen Lombardi

IMPACT: Environmental groups sue EPA over lack of coal ash regulation

By Emma Schwartz

Air pollution resource guide

By iWatch News

A round-up of resources to learn more, and take action, on the air quality in your area

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IMPACT: Day after story on weak enforcement, a state cracks down on polluter

By Chris Hamby

EPA wants to limit pollution from tall smokestacks

By Laurel Adams

Judge rejects Exxon attempt to end lawsuit over refinery pollution

By iWatch News

Community coated in black mist — until citizens fought back

By Ronnie Greene and Howard Berkes

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Community coated in black mist — until citizens fought back

By Ronnie Greene and Howard Berkes

Regulators stymied unless they could witness 'fugitive' emissions

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Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

EPA wants to limit pollution from tall smokestacks

By Laurel Adams

Environmentalists decry 'irresponsible' lobbying by coal-burning utilities

By Alice Su

EPA releases long-awaited power plant air toxics rule

By Corbin Hiar

Few criminal cases target big air polluters

By Chris Hamby and Ronnie Greene

Prosecution level at its lowest among environmental cases

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Where regulators failed, citizens took action — testing their own air

By Elizabeth Shogren, Kristen Lombardi and Sandra Bartlett

5 questions for William Ruckelshaus

By Corbin Hiar

Why Americans still breathe known hazards decades after ‘clean air’ law

By Jim Morris and Corbin Hiar

Q&A: Former Bush official touts ‘market-based’ air toxics regulation

By Corbin Hiar

Town divided over major employer's permission to pollute the air

By Howard Berkes and Sarah Harris

Community in turmoil over cement plant's permission to exceed emissions of hazardous waste incinerators — all perfectly legal

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Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

EPA's Toxics Release Inventory doesn't offer full picture of pollution

By Corbin Hiar

Community coated in black mist — until citizens fought back

By Ronnie Greene and Howard Berkes

In polluted Pennsylvania suburb, a Republican takes on state regulators

By Jim Morris

Where regulators failed, citizens took action — testing their own air

By Elizabeth Shogren, Kristen Lombardi and Sandra Bartlett

Citizens concerned about toxic emissions near Buffalo tested the air themselves - forcing complacent regulators to act.

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Why Americans still breathe known hazards decades after ‘clean air’ law

By Jim Morris and Corbin Hiar

Q&A: Former Bush official touts ‘market-based’ air toxics regulation

By Corbin Hiar

5 questions for William Ruckelshaus

By Corbin Hiar

EPA reminds Republicans cap-and-trade used to be GOP idea — and it worked for acid rain

By John Solomon

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