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PITTSBURGH — EHN reporters Cami Ferrell and Kristina Marusic won four 2025 Golden Quill awards for their reporting on hydrogen energy and chemical recycling.The Golden Quills competition, held by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, honors excellence in…

A 50-acre land transfer in Chicago may not be enough to stop invasive Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan, as Illinois struggles to secure and clean up additional coal ash-contaminated land needed for a billion-dollar fish barrier.Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco…

Pew Charitable Trusts has a new project that aims to measurably reduce Americans’ exposure to harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Five positions are open, including a Director, Public Policy Project Director, Science Project Director, and more.…

A new federal report links chronic disease in U.S. children to ultra-processed food, environmental toxins, and excessive medication, with policy proposals due later this summer.Adrianna Rodriguez reports for USA Today. In short: The Make America Healthy Again…

A bitter Senate hearing erupted into shouting as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin defended sweeping grant cuts and environmental rollbacks under President Trump, sparring with Democrats over transparency and health impacts.Rachel…

A Texas environmental group is suing a rural school district for allegedly violating state law by failing to properly notify the public ahead of a vote approving a major tax break for ExxonMobil’s proposed plastics plant.Dylan Baddour reports for Inside…

Los recortes que Donald Trump ordenó en materia medioambiental están dejando a miles de latinos en una situación de vulnerabilidad.

Valorado por Equinor en 2,500 millones de dólares, el proyecto Empire Wind 1 incluye 54 molinos diseñados para suministrar 810 megavatios de energía a Brooklyn, que abastecerán a 500,000 hogares.

Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the first national drinking water standards for six hazardous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Last week, the Trump administration announced that it would delay the timeline for…

While many previous studies have only considered the effects of individual chemicals, a recent study published in Environmental Research found that pregnant mothers’ exposure to multiple classes of chemicals increased their children’s risk of developing…

Editor's note: This op-ed was written by Frederick vom Saal and 15 co-authors. The full list of co-authors, their affiliations, and their contact information is included below.As senior environmental health researchers and physicians, we are united in our…

Mientras el mundo lo hace aproximadamente a 2 grados celsius por siglo, en el país el incremento es 3,2, según da a conocer la UNAM. Los Acuerdos Climáticos de París han establecido el límite clave en 1,5 °C.

In February 2025, consumers reacted to reports that toxic flame retardant chemicals had been found in black plastic spatulas made from recycled plastic. Sales of black nylon utensils plummeted over 20%, while sales of stainless steel and silicone products…

Bolivia: cooperativas mineras piden modificar la protección del Salar de Uyuni para explotar litio. Esta es la situación.

Un informe pone el foco sobre los efectos que el calor extremo provocado por el cambio climático tiene sobre los partos prematuros y problemas en la salud materna en todo el mundo; en España la zona mediterránea se lleva la peor parte.

This May 29 webinar features UCSF's Center to End Corporate Harm, launched earlier this year to bring together scientists to more systematically study the mechanisms and strategies corporations use to delay and prevent regulation of their health harming…

In this July 8 webinar, Drs. Kevin Elliott and Laura Vandenberg will discuss the range of ways in which scientists can frame and present information on research findings. For example, framing an EDC-related health outcome as a disease or disability can help to…

Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic…

Voters frustrated by high energy costs and inflation propelled Germany’s conservatives to power, prompting a recalibration of the country’s aggressive climate policies without fully abandoning its clean energy goals.Saqib Rahim reports for Grist.In…

El 60% de las escuelas de El Limón, en Jalisco, tienen huertos donde siembran sin químicos para mejorar la relación con el medio ambiente, la salud y la alimentación.

HOUSTON — Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have previously violated the pollution limits in their permits have recently applied for new federal operating permits or renewals.These facilities include the Chevron Pasadena Refining facility,…

Ashley couldn't stop staring at her hands. Swollen and slightly twisted, her fingers looked more like “deformed sausages,” as she described them, than what you’d expect to see in a relatively healthy twenty-seven-year-old woman. She held her hands out as…

PITTSBURGH — On Wednesday, the morning after hurricane-like weather conditions killed at least four people and caused power outages at more than 400,000 homes in southwestern Pennsylvania, community advocates and scientists held an event to discuss how…

Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.Billed as a type of food system that works in harmony with nature, “regenerative”…

Hospitals have huge environmental footprints – here’s how building design can be more sustainable.

PITTSBURGH — The greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area is among the 25 regions in the country with the worst air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.The nonprofit public health organization’s annual “State of the Air”…

A growing number of evangelical churches and universities in Indiana are embracing renewable energy and environmental stewardship as a religious duty, reframing climate action through a spiritual lens.Catrin Einhorn reports for The New York TimesIn…

In California’s agricultural heartland, where fields of grapes and strawberries stretch for miles, a sharp, acrid smell often lingers in the air. That smell is sulfur dioxide — a toxic gas formed when elemental sulfur, the most widely used pesticide in the…

Health impacts are likely being underestimated by traditional risk models used by regulators, according to a new study that has found a different way to measure the cumulative risk air pollution poses to health. The new method, which accounts for the ways…

This article was originally published by U.S. Right To Know and is republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license.Chemicals found in common food packaging plastics like cling film and snack pouches may interfere with the body’s natural…