Pollution

A recent study claims local officials and environmental agencies downplayed hazardous air conditions during the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant fire — and more should have been done to alert the public.

Arctic communities have long been plagued by soot that drives snow melt and respiratory disease. Now, humans are making their mark in Antarctica.

There's a new hotline for people who are concerned about exposure to toxic chemicals from a massive fire at the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem.

The EPA announced on Monday a plan that it says will yield $190 billion in net benefits by 2050.

A high level of a chemical that federal regulators call a likely human carcinogen has once again been discharged into the Cape Fear River Basin.

A state regulatory panel agreed Tuesday to develop rules for North Carolina to meet proposed overall reductions of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and to join a multi-state effort to accomplish it.

Researchers are warning about the health effects of manmade PFAS chemicals on the body's ability to fight COVID-19.

The culprit is air pollution — a problem around the globe, from homes where people cook using coal and wood to the smoky streets of San Francisco when wildfires were raging.