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Big increases in mercury and other toxic releases

By Marianne Lavelle

Almost 4.1 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released to the environment in the United States in 2007, according to new data from the E

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

By Corbin Hiar

Tackling the powerful chemical industry

By Bill Buzenberg

Many Americans left behind in the quest for cleaner air

By Jim Morris, Chris Hamby and Elizabeth Lucas

Methodology

By Elizabeth Lucas, Robert Benincasa and David Donald

Explaining the climate change strategy

By Marianne Lavelle

Global warming is bad for public health — that’s the essence of a formal “finding” that the Environmental Protection Agency is set to make l

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Greenhouse cash

By Chris Hamby

Energy dollars fueled campaigns of Democrats who defected on EPA vote

By Chris Hamby

EPA proposes first limit on greenhouse gases

By Chris Hamby

Nearly one-third of U.S. cars won't be ready for 2013 switch to anti-pollution technology

By Evan Bush

The politics of energy: Coal

By The Center for Public Integrity

When George W. Bush was inaugurated on the Capitol steps in January 2001, the coal industry, which had contr

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Coal-fired plant under attack, but may still have some important backers

By Josh Israel

Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent

By Corbin Hiar

The ‘clean coal’ lobbying blitz

By Marianne Lavelle

Shake-ups at high-profile coal industry group

By Marianne Lavelle

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World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

Termites? No problem. On DoMyOwnPestControl.com, $64.99 buys a 20-ounce bottle of Termidor SC. That’s enough for anyone with a credit card

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EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

State officials ignored scientists in approving pesticide

By Amy Standen

Dangerous disease, dangerous remedy

By Jillian Olsen

New EPA scrutiny for Atrazine reflected in Center’s database complaints

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

EPA announces intensified evaluation of spot-on pet treatments

By M.B. Pell

Back in December, our story, Pets and Pesticides: Let’s Be Careful Out There, reported that an alarming number of deaths had been linked to

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World wide web of pesticides can endanger consumers

By Jillian Olsen

EPA increases scrutiny of flea and tick treatments

By M.B. Pell

EPA cracks down on flea, tick labels in wake of Center probe

By M.B. Pell and Jim Morris

EPA’s hormonal ups and downs

By Jillian Olsen

Dispute in Pennsylvania town highlights EPA's coal ash dilemma

By Amy Biegelsen

It was a windy Friday morning last December when Gary Kuklish stepped out of the post office in the tiny coal town of LaBelle, PA, looked do

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IMPACT: House committee limits EPA ability to regulate coal ash

By Evan Bush

Democrats join fight against coal ash regulation

By Kristen Lombardi

Republican duo supported by energy industry seek to rein in EPA on coal ash

By Kristen Lombardi

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

By Emma Schwartz

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Bush's new Chief of Staff once fought for polluters

By Brenda R. Mayrack

WASHINGTON, February 2, 2001 — As their top lobbyist, Andrew H. Card Jr. led a $25 million lobbying campaign on behalf of the "Big Three" U.

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FACT CHECK: Artful swerves on the auto bailout

By The Associated Press

Nearly one-third of U.S. cars won't be ready for 2013 switch to anti-pollution technology

By Evan Bush

Explaining the climate change strategy

By Marianne Lavelle

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

By Elizabeth Shogren, Kristen Lombardi and Sandra Bartlett

EPA has a backlog of 70 chemical assessments

By Laurel Adams

The Environmental Protection Agency has not been able to keep up with its chemical assessments, some of which have been under way for more t

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Methodology

By The Center for Public Integrity

Superfund program loses funding, momentum

By The Center for Public Integrity

EPA needs to improve monitoring of Missouri toxic waste site

By Laurel Adams

Human exposure 'uncontrolled' at 114 Superfund sites

By Joaquin Sapien

Eastern Shore homebuilder investigated for storm water runoff

By Joe Eaton

Eastern Shore homebuilder investigated for storm water runoff

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The “soft underbelly” of development?

By Amy Reinink

Oxygen-starved “dead zones” in U.S. waters growing, report warns

By John Solomon

Big setback for mountaintop mining critics

By Jim Morris

Has mountaintop mining peaked?

By Marianne Lavelle

Last minute flurry of ethanol lobbying at OMB

By Marianne Lavelle

The Obama administration is getting plenty of input on the Farm Belt’s favorite alternative fuel — ethanol. Of specific interest: whether it

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High-stakes lobbying over ethanol’s indirect impact

By Marianne Lavelle

Congress ponders corn ethanol tax credit as production of plant waste ethanol lags

By Jim Morris

Ethanol’s political investment: PACs gave $1 million over last two cycles

By Josh Israel

Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand

By Marianne Lavelle

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