Delaware’s largest polluter will soon have an extra set of eyes monitoring its operations. The Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization, was recently granted $500,000...
CBS News Pittsburgh Live The owner of a towboat that sank and spilled oil into a river along the West Virginia-Kentucky border pleaded guilty Tuesday to...
A century-old electric company that serves hundreds of thousands of customers in the Washington D.C. area spent decades allegedly releasing toxic pollutants into the Anacostia River....
CNN — As drought tightens its grip in the Central US and water levels on the Mississippi River plummet to near-record lows, a surge of saltwater...
Nearly a quarter of the nitrogen oxide pollution in the state stems from fossil fuel-burning furnaces and water heaters — eight times more than the state’s...
While supporters of electric vehicles point to them as less polluting and a tool to combat climate change, opponents have several arguments against the state’s proposal...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – SOUTH AUGUSTA (WFXG)- A biofuel facility producing renewable energy could soon come to South Augusta. But, members of historic Spirit Creek Baptist Church,...
MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — Groundwater containing low levels of radioactive material may have reached the edge of the Mississippi River, the energy company responsible for the leak from...
That pesky smoke from the raging Canadian wildfires is yet again impacting the region, sparking an “air quality alert” for parts of the Bay State. The...
How the MPCA decides to declare air quality alerts in Minnesota – CBS Minnesota Watch CBS News Meteorologists with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency use air...