Stronghold Digital Mining, a cryptocurrency company, has reached an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to expedite the cleanup of unpermitted coal ash.

It’s one of the more serious emerging pollution threats to the Great Lakes, which have a long history of manmade threats and ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. And some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans. Therefore, policies and regulations to limit mercury emissions have ...

New research has found that our efforts to reduce the amount of mercury in the atmosphere are bearing fruit, with levels down ...

A former EPA official warns exemption for some coal-fired power plants could be the first step toward gutting pollution rules ...

Mercury is released by environmental and human-driven processes. Some forms, specifically methylmercury, are toxic to humans.

Bourama Traoré and his brother, now aged 20 and 29, grew up along the banks of the Niger River. Their daily routine has ...

State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated mercury levels in large walleye. The state announced Monday that Dry Lake #1 ...

Opinion: the dirtiest coal plant in the nation just got special permission to continue spewing toxic pollutants into our air ...

To try to make a dent in this problem, Tepper and her colleagues genetically engineered zebra fish and fruit flies so that ...

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in ...

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